Spiritual life

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The Church spends a lot of time talking about the poor. As we should. But we often forget who the truly poor actually are. This is where the social justice movement frequently goes wrong. It sometimes mistakenly puts a temporal justice ahead of eternal justice, seeking to satisfy temporal impoverishment while disregarding a more important [...]

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God is looking for you

“St. Augustine understood that it was not he who had found Truth, but that Truth itself, which is God, pursued and found him,” Pope Benedict recently reflected. He went on in reference to Augustine’s Confessions saying, “Creatures must be silent so that there will be a silence in which God can speak. This is also [...]

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couch potato

“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.” – C. S. Lewis This is a long time favorite quote of mine. But it jumped out [...]

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Anyone who’s followed Fallible Blogma for awhile knows that I love Mother Teresa quotes. Here I’ve compiled seven of them (into seven simple steps) that help me every day. Try reading them daily (or weekly) to help keep priorities in order and life in proper perspective. No matter how many times I read them, I [...]

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I think when a lot of people heard about Pope John Paul II’s practice of self-mortification, it might have made them feel a bit weird. And it is, understandably, hard for many people these days to understand this kind of practice or it’s easy to mistake it for a kind of masochism. But that would [...]

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