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November 2017

November 18, 2017
Not everyone can fast heroically, says St. John Cassian. We need to take our own...
November 17, 2017
The Church requires every Christian to fast during Lent. We should take this opportunity, says...
November 16, 2017
Review by Julie Abel I recently attended the Maryland Catholic Women’s Conference at Mount St....
November 16, 2017
St. John Cassian remembers the wise comparison of the abbot Theodore. Your mind, he says,...
November 15, 2017
The Syrian abbot Chaeremon, as St. John Cassian remembers, explained that it’s far better to...
November 14, 2017
Do you find yourself struggling in life? Do the problems you encounter at work and...
November 14, 2017
The devil stirs up heretics to attack the Church, says St. Augustine, but God turns...
November 13, 2017
When barbarians sacked Rome in the year 410, some pagans argued that the Christian God...
November 13, 2017
Greg Willits is the editorial director for Our Sunday Visitor and the author of The...
November 12, 2017
A correspondent had asked Theodoret an interesting hypothetical question. Theodoret’s answer quotes Jesus’ advice to...
November 10, 2017
We can never know in this world why bad things happen to some people and...
November 10, 2017
The wise abbot Chaeremon told St. John Cassian that forgiveness and compassion are the signs...
November 09, 2017
Review by Julie Abell When I was a teenager in high school, I could not...
November 09, 2017
We worry all the time, and with reason. Who can predict what will happen tomorrow?...
November 08, 2017
The expulsion from Paradise was a bad thing. Yet look what good came of it,...
November 07, 2017
Sometimes in our faith journeys we are asked the question to trump all questions. “Hey...
November 07, 2017
If you cultivate patience, says St. John Cassian, you will be at peace not only...
November 06, 2017
Sometimes pain and sickness are hard to bear, but we’re still called to bear them....
November 06, 2017
Bradley Hahn is a deeply committed Catholic who helped found Solidarity HealthShare as a means...
November 05, 2017
Tertullian, one of the founders of Christian theology, tells us that the New Law demands...
November 04, 2017
The visionary Hermas is told that when we see someone suffering, we must respond. If...
November 03, 2017
Do you know someone who needs help, but may be too modest to ask for...
November 02, 2017
If you give so that you can boast about it, says St. Ambrose, you already...
November 01, 2017
Is that beggar on the street just a lazy bum? Maybe so, but St. John...

October 2017

October 31, 2017
Give, and let God take care of the rest - Hermas on Christian charity. The...
October 30, 2017
This godly love cannot be perfect unless we love our neighbor as well. And in...
October 30, 2017
Brandon Vogt is a bestselling and award-winning author, blogger, and speaker who serves as content...
October 29, 2017
We can’t always be doing everything, says St. Augustine. We need to judge what kind...
October 28, 2017
Are we ready to die for our friends? Maybe not yet. But St. Augustine shows...
October 27, 2017
No matter how virtuously you live your own life, says St. Leo the Great, you...
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