You also ought to exercise pleasantness towards all, taking great care especially that what you have commanded may never be done by reason of force. For God has... Read more.
The most important thing of all to him, however, was that he knew himself to be loved by Christ…To be separated from that love was, in his eyes, the greatest... Read more.
Just as every sort of gem, cast in honey, becomes brighter and more sparkling, each according to its colour, so each person becomes more acceptable and fitting in... Read more.
The world mounts a double attack on the soldiers of Christ. It wheedles in order to lead them astray; but it also terrifies, in order to break them. Let us not be... Read more.
What menaces there were from the executioner, to frighten her; what promises made, to win her over; what influential people desired her in marriage! She answered:... Read more.
To enter the kingdom of God we must endure many tribulations. If there are many persecutions, there are many testings; where there are many crowns of victory, there... Read more.
Sunday Musical Offerings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClEZeWEpQ_8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlAmO-YMhws
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAElf_dhOmQ... Read more.
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world (J.R.R. Tolkien)... Read more.
The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief,... Read more.
There is an inertia in our nature that makes us dull; and in our attempt to penetrate your truth we are held within the bounds of ignorance by the weakness of our... Read more.