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by bcadmin | Sep 6, 2021 | Between the Sundays, Catholic social teaching, daily life, dignity of work, Featured, holiness, human dignity, Labor Day, Laborem Exercens, Living the Faith, News, Regular Feature, sanctification, Work, workplace | 0 |
Work is a gift. Perhaps it doesn’t seem that way when we’re growing tired of the monotony of our commute, when the stress of deadlines is threatening our peace, or when we struggle with our coworkers or our boss. But our work is one way we partner with…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 26, 2021 | battle, Culture, culture war, Devil, Evil, Featured, fighting, God, Jesus Christ, Living the Faith, Love, News, Prayer, Regular Feature, Spiritual, St. Michael the Archangel | 0 |
Editor’s Note: Dr. Kreeft’s classic essay on successfully winning the culture wars is timeless. For more information, see his book, How to Win the Culture War. To win any war, the three most necessary things to know are: (1) that you are at war, (2) wh…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 22, 2021 | Ask a Carmelite Sister, Carmelite, children, example, family, fathers, Featured, husband, News, practical faith, Prayer, prayer life, Regular Feature, teaching | 0 |
Dear Sister, I’ve been reading your answers to questions on Integrated Catholic Life™ and have been playing with the idea of writing you a question that I’ve been thinking about for many years. It’s about my family. I don’t consider us bad Catho…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 24, 2021 | atheism, Design Argument, Dr. Donald DeMarco, Faith, Featured, Fr. Thomas Dubay, ideas, Ideas Have Consequences, logic, metaphysics, News, Philosophy, Proofs of God, reason, Regular Feature, Sufficient Reason, teenagers, Truth, universals | 0 |
Young Atheists One of the most difficult issues, with which I have to personally deal as a teacher, is the student who enters my Grade 9 Religion class at the age of fourteen already an avowed atheist. While I have come to expect this from some enterin…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 10, 2021 | Carmelite, Divine Office, Featured, Jesus Christ, Liturgy of the Hours, News, Prayer & Spiritual Life, prayer life, Regular Feature, Spiritual Life | 0 |
“Lord, open my lips and my mouth will proclaim your praise.” (Psalm 51:15) These words ring out in the chapel, breaking the silence of the early morning. It is still dark outside and our community of sisters, albeit still a bit bleary-eyed, has gathere…
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 20, 2021 | Catholic Church, family, Featured, God's Will, grace, Help, Jesus Christ, Lord, Moms, News, patience, Prayer, Prayer & Spiritual Life, Regular Feature, stress, Women of Faith | 0 |
When the heat goes out and the temperature is minus-two degrees outside and I wonder when the oil company will arrive to save us from this dangerous situation, —Lord, help me to accept hardship as a pathway to peace, to take as Jesus did the sinful wor…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 2, 2021 | battle, Culture, culture war, Devil, Evil, Featured, fighting, God, In the Spotlight, Jesus Christ, Living the Faith, Love, News, Prayer, Regular Feature, Spiritual, St. Michael the Archangel | 0 |
Editor’s Note: Dr. Kreeft’s classic essay on successfully winning the culture wars is timeless. For more information, see his book, How to Win the Culture War. To win any war, the three most necessary things to know are: (1) that you are at war, (2) wh…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 17, 2021 | Calendar & Seasons, Featured, Jesus Christ, Lent, News, Regular Feature | 0 |
Lent is supposed to be a season of a successful journey through the desert of penance to a new land and a new, deeper, intimacy with God. But often, we find ourselves going back to the same old Lenten pathways of past years and end up getting nowhere. …
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 5, 2020 | Blessed Sacrament, Blessed Virgin Mary, Eucharist, Everyday Faith, Faith, fears, Featured, gift, Holy Mass, miracle, News, pain, Prayer, Regular Feature, tears | 0 |
I’m a dry-eyed gal most of the time, and I have always prided myself on that trait. Then I started going to Mass. I certainly didn’t mean to turn into a blubbering mess. At the time, I was a tough know-it-all college graduate, and I was only there bec…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 2, 2020 | Calendar & Seasons, Catholic Church, charity, compassion, Faith, Featured, Jesus Christ, Light of the World, Living the Faith, News, Regular Feature, salt of the earth, Scripture, suffering | 0 |
In 2005 while undergoing chemotherapy, I was sitting in an uncomfortable recliner on the sixth floor of the medical facility. An IV dripped poison into my veins that would simultaneously cure me of the cancer in my body, and wreak havoc on it, sending …
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 5, 2020 | Carmelite, desert, Elijah, Featured, God, Lent, News, Prayer & Spiritual Life, prayer life, Regular Feature, Spiritual Life, wilderness | 0 |
“What did you go out to the wilderness to see?” (Matthew 11:7) These were Jesus’ words to the crowd. John took to the desert to draw people out into solitude to prepare their hearts for the coming of the Messiah. For many years the desert had become a …
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 27, 2020 | Catholic Church, children, Dr. Peter Kreeft, Faith, Featured, Jesus Christ, Lent, life, Living the Faith, News, Prayer, Regular Feature, simplicity | 0 |
I once was visiting a beautiful home, finely furnished with exquisite furniture, lovely artwork and impeccable décor. However, the heavy draperies around the windows blocked most of the natural light in the rooms, and left an atmosphere of heaviness an…
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