In the traditional calendar, today is the memorial of Saint Paul, the hermit. We will therefore listen to the reading appropriate to this occasion. If you prefer a meditation that corresponds to today’s calendar, you can find it here: http://en.elijamission.net/the-value-of-fasting/ Phil 3:7-12 But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of … Read More
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The real fight
Col 3:1-11 If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When … Read More
The vigilant attitude
Mt 24:42-51 At that time, Jesus said to his disciples: Watch ye therefore, because ye know not what hour your Lord will come. But know this ye, that if the goodman of the house knew at what hour the thief would come, he would certainly watch, and would not suffer his house to be broken … Read More
Meditations on the Holy Spirit (4/14): THE SELF-CONTROL
Download MP3 Download PDF Holy Spirit, in the beginning you hovered over the waters (cf. Gen 1:2) and brought order to the chaos. You also want to bring order to the chaos caused by sin, order in our inner and outer life. So much has been confused with original sin and the sins that follow … Read More
A way to a pure heart (Part 2)
Download PDF We continue with the theme from yesterday. It is primarily about this Gospel passage of 8 February: ‘It is what comes out of someone that makes that person unclean. For it is from within, from the heart, that evil intentions emerge: fornication, theft, murder, adultery, avarice, malice, deceit, indecency, envy, slander, pride, folly. … Read More
A SERIES ON THE SPIRITUAL LIFE: The Virtue of Prudence
Download PDF “For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.” (Prov 2:6) The virtue of prudence is usually considered as the “auriga virtutum”; that is, the moderator or conductor of the other virtues, because it helps us to apply the virtue that corresponds to the given circumstances, in a wise and … Read More
A SPIRITUAL LESSON (II)
73rd Meditation on God the Father “A word is not yet on my tongue before you, Lord, know all about it” (Ps 139:4). From the time when thoughts arise within us until we utter them in words, there is still a way for us to restrain them, so that no word may come from our … Read More
Meditations on the Holy Spirit (4/14): THE SELF-CONTROL
Download MP3 Download PDF Holy Spirit, in the beginning you hovered over the waters (cf. Gen 1:2) and brought order to the chaos. You also want to bring order to the chaos caused by sin, order in our inner and outer life. So much has been confused with original sin and the sins that follow … Read More
Comforting and encouraging the faithful
Download PDF Acts 14:21-27 In those days, Paul and Barnabas returned to Lystra, Iconium and Antioch, comforting the disciples, exhorting them to persevere in the faith and telling them: ‘We must all experience many hardships before we enter the kingdom of God.’ In each of these churches they appointed elders, and with prayer and fasting … Read More
The Vigilant Attitude
Download MP3 Download PDF Mt 24:42-51 ‘So stay awake, because you do not know the day when your master is coming. You may be quite sure of this, that if the householder had known at what time of the night the burglar would come, he would have stayed awake and would not have allowed anyone … Read More