St. Augustine, Is the Life of Prayer Worth It?

Question 006

Where is all of this leading?

We shall have God as our common object of vision, as our common possession, our common peace,   For whatever he gives us now, he shall be to us in place of his present gifts.  He shall be our full and perfect peace… Our joy, our peace, our rest, the end of our troubles, is none but […]

By |January 30th, 2022|Categories: Spiritual Combat, St. Augustine on Prayer|

Advent – Time for “Holiday Parties” or Little Lent?

Origionally Published at TAN Direction

 

But except you do penance, you shall all likewise perish.

—Luke 13:5

My childhood hero was Bishop Ignatius Kung.

We were told of his heroic suffering as a prisoner. The Chinese Communists (the same ones who recently gifted us with a man-made virus), permitted him to leave his solitary confinement of thirty years if he would only renounce his allegiance to Rome.

As a little boy, and later as a college student, I felt […]

By |December 7th, 2021|Categories: Spiritual Combat, Spiritual Growth, TAN Direction|
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