Becoming A Healing Person, Dr. Albert S. Rossi
Month: December 2018
Fr. Ezra Sullivan – “The Role Of The Body In Ultimate Happiness” – SoundCloud
Listen to Fr. Ezra Sullivan – “The Role Of The Body In Ultimate Happiness” by Thomistic Institute Angelicum. #np on #SoundCloud
Ascetic: Reflections on the Way of Self-Sacrifice Written by Anonymous
A boy once approached his father, ‘Old man, why do you fast?’ The father stood silent, bringing heart and mind together, and then:
‘Beloved boy, I fast to know what it is I lack.
For day by day I sit in abundance, and
all is well before me;
I want not, I suffer not, and I
lack but that for which I invent a need.
But my heart is empty of true joy,
filled, yet overflowing with dry waters.
There is no room left for love.
I have no needs, and so my needs are never met,
no longings, and so my desires are never fulfilled.
Where all the fruits of the earth could dwell, I have
filled the house with dust and clouds;
It is full, so I am content—
But it is empty, and so I weep.
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You cannot escape shame except by shame – John Climacus
Do not be deceived, son and obedient servant of the Lord, by the spirit of conceit, so that you confess your own sins to your master as if they were another person’s. You cannot escape shame except by shame. It is often the habit of the demons to persuade us either not to confess, or to do so as if we were confessing another person’s sins, or to lay the blame for our sin on others. Lay bare, lay bare your wound to the physician and, without being ashamed, say: ‘It is my wound, Father, it is my plague, caused by my own negligence, and not by anything else. No one is to blame for this, no man, no spirit, no body, nothing but my own carelessness.’
[John of the Ladder, The Ladder Divine Ascent]
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Fr. Michael Sweeney, OP – How Catholics Can Realize the Royal Priesthood of the Laity – SoundCloud
Listen to Fr. Michael Sweeney, OP – How Catholics Can Realize the Royal Priesthood of the Laity by The Lumen Christi Institute #np on #SoundCloud