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by bcadmin | Nov 14, 2022 | Featured, News, perseverance | 0 |
Mal 3:19-20; 2Thes 3:7-12; Lk 21:5-19 Jesus is coming soon! This statement of faith may elicit bored yawns from many of us who may have become weary of the long wait for Christ’s second coming. It may even instill fear in many or bring about regrets about the past for those who feel that they […]
by bcadmin | Sep 2, 2022 | Book Review, conversion, Featured, Hubert van Zeller, News, Padre Pio, perseverance, Shia LaBeouf | 0 |
Last week, Shia LaBeouf rocked the Catholic world by announcing that he converted to traditional Catholicism while portraying Padre Pio for an upcoming film. His arc bears a resemblance to the life of another young convert, also an artist, who was the recipient of Dom Hubert van Zeller’s Letters to a Soul, a collection of […]
by bcadmin | Aug 3, 2022 | courage, Effeminacy, Featured, Masculinity, News, perseverance, podcast | 0 |
Today we are joined by a well-known priest and author to men, Fr. Roger Landry. We discuss his call to the priesthood, the abuse scandal in Boston, and how to avoid effeminacy as a man. We often associate effeminacy with men acting like women, but the reality, as St. Thomas Aquinas teaches, it is the vice directly opposed to perseverance and courage. How does this show itself today and how can we as men reject this vice?
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 19, 2021 | encouragement, Featured, News, perseverance, Saints, Sophia Excerpts | 0 |
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. James 1:2-4 A young man visited a hermit with a reputation for great holiness, seeking to […]
by bcadmin | Aug 27, 2021 | Between the Sundays, conversion, death, Featured, Living the Faith, News, perseverance, Prayer, Purgatory, Saints, Sorrow, St. Augustine, St. Monica, The Confessions | 0 |
“If our loved one is indeed in purgatory, they would much rather have our prayers than our praise.” The end of August brings us back-to-back feast days of two great saints, Monica and Augustine. There are few saint stories as legendary as t…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 15, 2021 | News, perseverance, Those Catholic Men | 0 |
The Saints have left us the example of those who sought perfection. Not perfection in being (this is not possible for fallen creatures this side of Heaven) but perfection in will, which grace promises and God commands: “be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect” (Matthew 5:48). The distinction is that we are not […]
by bcadmin | May 19, 2021 | distractions, From the Pope, News, obstacles, perseverance, Times of trial | 0 |
Those who overcome distractions or obstacles when praying learn the value of perseverance in times of trial, Pope Francis said.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 12, 2021 | Featured, Marriage, Marriage & Family, marriage vows, News, perseverance, suffering | 0 |
Ben and I celebrate fourteen years of marriage on June 30th. When we see starry-eyed couples together, we give each other a knowing glance and wry smile. There’s something we’ve weathered that we—as young, blissful newlyweds—couldn’t understand. Likewise, we notice older couples who have been married several decades, and they carry a wisdom in their […]
by bcadmin | May 8, 2021 | Humility, motherhood, News, patience, perseverance, Spirituality, The Dispatch, Virtue | 0 |
The daily difficulties are a feature, not a flaw. […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 5, 2020 | All Saints, Chastity, courage, Faith, Hope, Humility, Love, Lumen Gentium, News, Only Jesus, perseverance, prudence, Solemnity of All Saints, temperance, virtues | 0 |
the Solemnity of All Saints, which is always for me one of the most inspiring feast days of the year. It reminds me that I am not alone and that I am surrounded always by this “great cloud of witnesses” (Heb. 12:1) who are members of the same Church as I am, and who are not only models for me but friends who are helping me to attain the goal of my life.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 5, 2020 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, Lent, News, perseverance, Peter Kreeft | 0 |
During the season of Lent, we are called to make a more focused effort on growing in the discipline of prayer. What we discover rather quickly when we add in more frequent prayer, is that it takes work and perseverance. This is one of the reasons many people give up on growing in prayer. We […]
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