"YOU FAST, BUT SATAN DOES NOT EAT. YOU LABOR FERVENTLY, BUT SATAN NEVER SLEEPS. THE ONLY DIMENSION WITH WHICH
St. Moses the BLack
YOU CAN OUTPERFORM SATAN IS BY ACQUIRING HUMILITY, FOR
SATAN HAS NO HUMILITY."
Author: The Catholic Adventurer
Why I prefer the Beautiful to the Ugly
The beauties of the Catholic faith experience are like the “threshold of the house of God”. Why exactly is that threshold preferable to the ugly “dwellings of the wicked?”
Build a house of prayer
Don’t underestimate the great power of a disciplined prayer life. It changes a life WITH prayer into a life OF prayer; building a fortress–like a House of Prayer–around your daily life. How should Catholics build a House of Prayer of their own?
“Holy Patience” – My First Saturday Meditation (6/4/22)
We resist anxiety, fear, and worry by practicing holy patience, just like the Blessed Mother did
What’s your catholic adventure?
What is YOUR Catholic adventure? What part of this adventure of life as a Catholic stands out for you? Let us know. Here’s mine.
Political Golden calf
When your political affiliation or political ideology means more to you than God and His will, then politics is your golden calf.
Are you tired yet? Here’s the remedy
The state of the world and the times we’re living in are robbing us of energy, of life, and of God. But you don’t have to let that happen.
Be Still and know that God is God
Covid. Inflation. War. It all seems like an endless raging storm. But our faith must overtake our fear. Here is the perfect Psalm to help get you there
Crowned with mercy! What is revealed to us about God’s mercy (And about Confession) in Psalm 103?
Psalm 103 shows a whole dimension of the mercy of God that I had never thought of before.
Pastoral care can’t be pastoral betrayal
Pope Francis has called for priests to be “pastoral rather than political” when faced with the question of who can receive communion. But what the holy father is perhaps unwittingly calling for is actually contrary to good pastoral care. At its heart it is a betrayal of the entire fold.