Category: Spiritual Life

This category, of course, can cover many topics. We try to limit it in this section to articles that deal with the inner life of the soul elevated by grace or wounded by sin: virtue and vice, heroic Catholic men and women as seen under the light of the particular virtue they exemplified, the cardinal virtues, spiritual formation, growth, and purgation, and the theological virtues of faith, hope, and charity.

The Beatitudes

Do you have the eight Beatitudes memorized? If not, let’s get to it! Here is an incentive: the Beatitudes form part of the Gospel for All Saints Day, which is next week. You can meditate on them ahead of time. … Continue reading

Plucking of His Beard

I have given my body to the strikers, and my cheeks to them that plucked them: I have not turned away my face from them that rebuked me, and spit upon me. (Isaias 50:6) In His Agony in the Garden … Continue reading