Seven Prayers for Seven Gifts
Prayers for wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and fear of the Lord. Continue reading
An Inadequate God
It’s about trying to be a god. Who alone knows all, understands all, encompasses all? Who alone defines what is right and what is not? God alone. And when we reject God, and try to do this for ourselves, we are not rejecting the idea of divinity, but styling ourselves as a god. It is fundamentally a failure of humility and the triumph of arrogance, that we all do in every single sin, to claim as our own the divine right to determine for ourselves right and wrong. Continue reading
The Spiritual Combat: Part I, Meditation on our Nothingness
In ourselves, we are nothing; our life is hidden in God. Continue reading
An Outline of an Argument for God’s Existence
I hope this doesn’t make anyone’s head spin. Please let me know if it does. I’m open to suggestions on how to tidy things up. Continue reading
Summary of the Christian Gospel
You are truly holy, O King of all time and source of all holiness. Holy is your only Son, our Lord and God, Jesus Christ. Holy is your Spirit who reaches the depths of all things, even the depths of your own Being. You are God and Father, holy, almighty, all-powerful, awesome, and good, compassionate toward the sufferings of your creation. Continue reading
My Conversion Story
This is my first attempt at writing my conversion story. It’s horribly truncated and although I tried to include everything, everything somehow got left out. Continue reading
On Biblical Inspiration and Inerrancy
As Catholics we firmly believe that the Bible is the inspired Word of God written in the language of men, or in other words, that it was penned by the Lord’s hand through mortal hands without any loss of human freedom or divine truth. This understanding of the Sacred Scriptures has been passed down to us by the apostles themselves and is eloquently and thoroughly explained by the Church Fathers and in papal documents such as Providentissimus Deus, Spiritus Paraclitus, Divino Afflante Spiritu, and more recently, Dei Verbum. Continue reading
A Heads-up
TheRosyGardener and I have decided to “tag-team” this blog from here on out. It was getting to difficult to maintain either of our blogs individually. Continue reading
The Good Thief’s God (or: OT vs. NT)
This is where we stand as human beings. We’ve broken the relationship between us and God– thousands of times, each of us. And God is Love, Truth, and Life– so when we leave him, we get Death, Lies, and Destruction. That’s not a vengeful God of the OT; that’s justice, as painful as it is to admit it. Those punishments are what we all deserve. Continue reading
Roses from the Heart
She’s always in the same coat. She has a worn-looking crutch, and a worn-looking face, but it’s always made up a little bit, giving her a look oddly cheery despite her usual implacable sad face. For over a month, I gave to her every time I saw her, and she smiled at me, and, like many beggars, thanked me profusely and, I think, asked God to bless me. Continue reading
