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Wednesday of Fifth Week of Lent

There are many articles to link today.

Pope Benedict XVI has reminded the Church that everyone is called to holiness.  Holiness, of course, is found in the saint that lives in the imitation of Christ.  The Pope has recommended three rules for holiness here.

In a similar Lenten theme, Jeff Mirus of Catholic Culture has provided a series of questions which ask the question: Are you growing holier?  This excellent article is found here.

Phil Lawler, also of Catholic Culture, has an interesting observation regarding the cost of the priest scandals.  Lawler has challenged Bishops to behave as the fathers they have been called by Christ to be.  His list of "fatherly" behaviors can be found here.

Alice Von Hildebrand has published an essay titled On True Love.  This is a very interesting article in which she argues that a key component of true love is the willingness to forgive and to recognize one's own imperfections and sins.  This article is found here.

Pope Saint Martin, ora pro nobis!

Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Lent

A fascinating and somewhat surprising article on the causes of spiritual blindness.  This is the kind of information that everyone seeking sanctity should have.  Find it here.

St. Vincent, ora pro nobis!

Monday of the Fourth Week of Lent

A very interesting article in the context of Father Corapi's troubles and the contrast of Father Groeschell.  Read it here.  The lesson is that we should seek our spiritual direction not from celebrities but from holy ascetics who emulate Jesus Christ and not Hollywood.

A very good summary of the Catholic approach to reading Holy Scripture can be found here at Catholic Culture.

This links to a very interesting essay on C.S. Lewis and the notion of a "mere Christianity."

St. Isadore, ora pro nobis!

Memorial of St. Pius X

The always readable and enlightening Peter Kreeft has published an article in the National Catholic Register that is very interesting.  The article's title speaks to the content of the article: The Left, the Right and "Dominus Iesus."  Dominus Iesus can be found here.

St. Pius X, ora pro nobis!

Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Through the centuries there has always been speculation about the nature and location of Heaven.  Today, the Church recalls the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.  This article explains that Mary was assumed into Heaven and that Heaven is many things but it is also a "place".  Interesting.

Also, attached here is a very important but sobering article on the Evil One.  Read it, take heed, and move on.

Mary, Mother of God, Pray for us!

 

Tuesday: Week Seventeen of Ordinary Time

Scripture Professor R.R. Reno has observed that there is an error worse than error!  That error is an inability to accept truth when it is presented due to an overly skeptical intellectual stance.  He observes that "truth outruns reason."  In matters of Revelation, this is surely the case. This very interesting article is here.

Mary, Mother of God, ora pro nobis!

Thursday: Week Fifteen of Ordinary Time

I have run across a new web site Catholicism.org.  It seems to have a variety of very interesting writings.  One of these is an article defining 'liberalism" in the context of religion.  Find it here.

Mark Shea has put together an article on Clericalism that rightly describes the dignity, and most importantly, the duties of the laity.  It is found on Catholic Exchange.

A series of lists worth memorizing! 

St. Bonaventure. Ora Pro Nobis!

Tuesday: Week Twelve of Ordinary Time

Msgr. Charles Pope was explained an area of Christian life that has become confused.  The Western world's post-modern tendency rejects the idea that a person's actions can legitimately be judged.  In fact, being "judgmental" is viewed as the only blameworthy act.  The article presents the proper Christian view.

This article from Msgr. Pope is great advice to fathers - especially for me.

Taylor Marshal explains why missing Mass on Sunday is a sin.  The very logical explanation is here.

Mary, Mother of God, ora pro nobis!

Friday: Week Eleven of Ordinary Time

George Weigel has diagnosed the Church's situations since Vatican II.  He explains that the emergence of weakened zeal, what he calls "Catholic Lite", has its roots not only in the Modernist reemergence but also in the weakness of catechesis before the counsel.  This is a very important article.

The Divine Life blogger Eric Sammons has prepared an excellent article about about evangelization.  Imagine that: Catholics evangelizing!  Read it here.

Mary Mother of God, ora pro nobis!

Holy Trinity Sunday

The outstanding Called to Communion web site has another small gem.  Tim A. Troutman has built upon a quotation from St. Augustine to show that "the Catholic apprehends the Church as supernatural and therefore above him."  We are happy to have made this discovery.  The alternative view is that we are above the Church and we either judge among alternatives or form the Church to fit out desires.  Clearly, the Catholic view takes a supernatural view of the Church while the later does not. 

Another excellent article that is found in the Called to Communion web site is on the question of the canon.  This is a primer on how and in what why the books of the Bible were selected.

St. Augustine, ora pro nobis!