We continue with our description of the virtues this weekend. Last Sunday, we looked at the great sin of pride and its corrective virtue humility. This weekend, we take up the vice of avarice, which represents an inordinate craving or desire for the things of this world, specifically for riches and the possibility these provideContinue reading “‘Tell me to come to You, across the water…’ (Sunday XIX of Ordered time)”
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Pearls of great price (Sunday XVII of Ordered time)
“let us pray for the graces to acquire these virtues of faith, hope and charity – and especially charity. Let us pray for them as King Solomon once prayed for the divine Wisdom to be a virtuous king.”
Love even your enemies (Sunday VII of Ordered time)
“What makes the Sacrifice of our Lord upon the Cross so perfect? In a single word, His humility, which… creates the locus for self-sacrificing love…”
Reading through the first book of the Kings (aka. I Samuel)
The first book of the Kings in most modern copies of the Bible is called the first book of Samuel. The Catholic Bible counts four books of the Kings of Israel and Judah – that is, the two books of Samuel and the two books of Kings (so with the old Catholic Bibles and theContinue reading “Reading through the first book of the Kings (aka. I Samuel)”
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