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St. Augustine hit the nail on the head when he famously said, “Love and then do as you please.” All the commandments align as we try to love God and love our neighbor.
Our attempts to make up for deficiencies from our childhoods lead to our recurring sins. By the Holy Spirit’s gifts of insight and understanding, we can begin the process of being freed from our slavery to sin.
Hope cannot be bought or taught. It can only be received and awakened.
The resurrection, the foundation of Christian hope, is knitted into the very sinews of every deciduous ash, aspen, beech, birch, cherry, elm, and hickory tree.
Our eucharistic adoration should lead to eucharistic action—a life of service, surrender, and sacrifice. Follow time spent in eucharistic adoration with a commitment to doing a specific act of charity.
Each one of us is called to discover and do God’s will. We live with open hands knowing that God will provide for our daily needs. We pray to be forgiven to the degree that we forgive.
There is a subtle temptation to reduce the spiritual life to a relationship between “me and Jesus.” We wrongfully treat others and the world as distractions.
