“Patience comes of sovereign prudence, impatience of unchecked folly.” (Proverbs 14:29) One thing I’ve been trying hard to work on during Lent is patience. Impatience is the bad fruit of a will not aligned with God’s Will. God does all…

In Peter Kreeft’s Practical Theology, a commentary on St. Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologica, the author says this in Chapter 71, “The Importance of Knowledge:” “If we don’t know the road, we cannot attain the goal, no matter how much we…

The prophet Elias listens for the Lord: “Then word came to him to go out and stand there in the Lord’s presence; the Lord God himself would pass by. A wind there was, rude and boisterous, that shook the mountains…

Many people have at least a mental image of Jesus — do you? Years ago I heard a homily in which the priest suggested we contemplate a picture of Jesus after receiving the Eucharist, as a way to develop a…

Here is Jesus preparing the world for the Eucharist: Then the Jews fell to disputing with one another, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?  Whereupon Jesus said to them, Believe me when I tell you this;…