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by bcadmin | Nov 4, 2022 | Between the Sundays, Cardinal Virtues, daily life, daily work, fasting, Featured, holiness, In the Workplace, mortification, News, Pope John Paul II, Self-control, self-mastery, temperance, virtues, Work | 0 |
In his first four Wednesday audiences, Pope St. John Paul II taught about the cardinal virtues. He was continuing what John Paul I had started before his sudden death. In his catechesis, John Paul II defined temperance quite simply: “A temp…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 17, 2022 | Emotions, Featured, healing, Mental health, News, Psalms, temperance | 0 |
In A Letter to Marcellinus, St. Athanasius offers a beautiful meditation on the unique power of the Psalms for bringing about emotional healing. What he says about praying with the Psalter, I think, can best be understood through the lens of the classical Greek conception of “mimesis” (or “representatio” in Latin), albeit with a strongly […]
by bcadmin | Jul 15, 2022 | Between the Sundays, Cardinal Virtues, daily life, Featured, holiness, honesty, human virtues, Justice, Knowing the Faith, moral virtues, News, prudence, temperance, virtues | 0 |
Picture a virtuous person. Maybe you thought of a cloistered nun in prayer. Or perhaps a saint on a holy card (probably also in prayer). If you’re honest, maybe you pictured someone who is no fun. A stuffy “prude.” We should be pictur…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 12, 2021 | Archbishop Ireland, Echoes of Catholic Minnesota, Father Mathew Total Abstinence Society, Featured, Irish, James McGolrick, News, temperance, Total Abstinence Society | 0 |
On March 17, 1873, the Irish of Minneapolis and surrounding areas gathered for Mass, filling the largest church in the city to overflowing. After hearing Father James McGolrick preach on the history of Ireland and the place of the Irish people in America, they poured out of Immaculate Conception to begin a St. Patrick’s Day parade through the city.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 11, 2021 | Lent, News, temperance, Those Catholic Men | 0 |
Have you ever thought that the ten commandments kind of start strong and peter out? It’s like listening to a sermon that starts strong (“You shall have no gods before Me!”), gets appropriately practical (“Honor your parents”), but then gets so broad that it sounds like a platitude. I’m speaking of that last commandment, “you […]
by 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 26, 2020 | News, temperance, Those Catholic Men, Virtue | 0 |
Nobody likes a person, especially a man, who just agrees to everything and goes with the flow, because that flow will typically by along the lines of whim, impulse, and sin – he’s a “yes man” not just to another man, but to everything. If you say ‘yes’ to everyone and everything you are not […]
by bcadmin | Mar 25, 2020 | 2020, Aquinas, Aristotle, Athanasius, Augustine, Basil, Cardinal Virtues, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Change the Model Change the Virtue, Columns, Dante’s Inferno, Faith Hope and Love, Fortitude, Gregory, Jesus Christ, Justice, Maximilian Kolbe, News, Perpetua and Felicity, Plato, prudence, Randall Smith, Socrates, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Mother Teresa, temperance, The Catholic Thing, Theological Virtues, Virgil’s Aeneid | 0 |
Randall Smith: Who is better prepared to flourish right now, Aristotle’s magnanimous man or someone more akin to St. Francis or St. Teresa of Calcutta?
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 21, 2020 | almsgiving, charity, Coronavirus, COVID-19, fasting, Featured, God, grace, In the Spotlight, Lent, News, Prayer, temperance | 0 |
How many times have you heard people say, “If God really exists, why does He let people get cancer or brain tumors?” Or, “If there really is a God, why does He allow wars and famine?” Or, “Where is God when we need Him most?” Well it occurred to me dur…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 1, 2020 | Abstinence, Apologetics Corner, detachment, Discipline, fasting, Featured, Gospel, Into the Deep, Jef Murray, moderation, News, Prayer & Spiritual Life, Scripture, self-denial, temperance, Virtue | 0 |
Lent has begun, so I thought we should revisit self-denial. Fasting and other forms of self-denial, as spiritual practices of materially subduing and controlling the physical appetites of the body, help us, by God’s grace, to enable the soul to mo…
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