This is the day which the Lord has made: Let us be glad and rejoice therein! Psalm 117:24 Poverty of spirit, or detachment from worldly goods, may strike us as a fundamentally negative stance. As noted here, the blessing this beatitude bestows is founded on a willingness to relinquish certain things we may otherwise desireContinue reading “A Living Gift of the Living God”
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Accepting the Gift of Happiness
The lawgiver shall give a blessing, They shall go from virtue to virtue: The God of gods shall be seen in Sion. Psalm 83:8 In Plato’s Gorgias, the ambitious Callicles accuses Socrates of turning human life upside down with his teaching that happiness consists in a life of virtue. To our fallen, grasping souls, itContinue reading “Accepting the Gift of Happiness”
Our Best Friends
Give me the grace, Good Lord, to think my worst enemies my best friends, for the brethren of Joseph could never have done him so much good with their love and favor as they did him with their malice and hatred. St. Thomas More, Prayer written in the Tower of London For his trust inContinue reading “Our Best Friends”
Serving the Good Wine
Bless them that persecute you: bless, and curse not. Romans 12:14 As Christians, we are called to perform a delicate balancing act. When faced with evil, we are neither to surrender, nor to overcompensate. “Hating that which is evil,” and “cleaving to that which is good,” we are to “overcome evil,” not by evil, butContinue reading “Serving the Good Wine”
"His Tongue shall Speak Judgment" 