Category: DEVOTIONALS

  • DO NOT LIGHTLY FOREGO HOLY COMMUNION

    Imitation of Christ THE VOICE OF CHRIST YOU must often return to the source of grace and divine mercy, to the fountain of goodness and perfect purity, if you wish to be free from passion and vice, if you desire to be made stronger and more watchful against all the temptations and deceits of the…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    Christian, take good care of thy faith; for recollect faith is the only way whereby thou canst obtain blessings. If we want blessings from God, nothing can fetch them down but faith. Prayer cannot draw down answers from God’s throne except it be the earnest prayer of the man who believes. Faith is the angelic…

  • IS THIS “BAD” FROM GOD?

    Connect The TestamentsNumbers 20-21; 1 Corinthians 3:1-4:21; Psalm 18:31-50 God has granted us incredible grace in the salvation that Jesus’ death and resurrection offers, but that very grace is often used as a theological excuse. It’s dangerous to say that bad things come from God, but there are times when they actually do. What makes…

  • WE SHOULD OFFER OURSELVES AND ALL THAT WE HAVE TO GOD, PRAYING FOR ALL

    Imitation of Christ THE DISCIPLE ALL things in heaven and on earth, O Lord, are Yours. I long to give myself to You as a voluntary offering to remain forever Yours. With a sincere heart I offer myself this day to You, O Lord, to Your eternal service, to Your homage, and as a sacrifice…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    The fatherhood of God is common to all his children. Ah! Little-faith, you have often said, “Oh that I had the courage of Great-heart, that I could wield his sword and be as valiant as he! But, alas, I stumble at every straw, and a shadow makes me afraid.” List thee, Little-faith. Great-heart is God’s…

  • LETTING EVIL BURN

    Connect The TestamentsNumbers 19:1-20:13; 1 Corinthians 2:1-16; Psalm 18:13-30 “And Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying … ‘let them take to you a red heifer without a physical defect …. And you will give it to Eleazar the priest, and it will … be slaughtered in his presence. Then Eleazar the priest will take…

  • THE OFFERING OF CHRIST ON THE CROSS; OUR OFFERING

    Imitation of Christ THE VOICE OF CHRIST AS I offered Myself willingly to God the Father for your sins with hands outstretched and body naked on the cross, so that nothing remained in Me that had not become a complete sacrifice to appease the divine wrath, so ought you to be willing to offer yourself…

  • MORNING & EVENING

    Why does God allow so many of his children to be poor? He could make them all rich if he pleased; he could lay bags of gold at their doors; he could send them a large annual income; or he could scatter round their houses abundance of provisions, as once he made the quails lie…

  • IT WILL SEEM SIMPLE IN RETROSPECT

    Connect The TestamentsNumbers 17:1-18:32, 1 Corinthians 1:1-31, Psalm 18:1-12 We’re all faced with difficult tasks. When Paul wrote to the Corinthians, he was forced to confront their spiritual problems, which were slowly destroying God’s work among them. Paul was thankful for them (1 Cor 1:4–8), but he was also called to a high purpose as…

  • THE EXAMINATION OF CONSCIENCE AND THE RESOLUTION TO AMEND

    Imitation of Christ THE VOICE OF CHRIST ABOVE all, God’s priest should approach the celebration and reception of this Sacrament with the deepest humility of heart and suppliant reverence, with complete faith and the pious intention of giving honor to God. Carefully examine your conscience, then. Cleanse and purify it to the best of your…