Fulton Sheen
The Hand That is Calloused
No better law for inner peace has ever been given than that of the Divine Savior, “If any man will come after Me, let him take up his cross daily and follow Me.” In other words, crosses and contradictions are a part of life. We are to expect them from others simply because they are […]
Our Confiteor and the Confiteor From the Cross
The Mass begins with the Confiteor. The Confiteor is a prayer in which we confess our sins and ask the Blessed Mother and the saints to intercede to God for our forgiveness, for only the clean of heart can see God. Our Blessed Lord too begins His Mass with the Confiteor. But His Confiteor differs […]
The Figures at the Cross: We Were There
The figures at the Cross were symbols of all who crucify. We were there in our representatives. What we are doing now to the Mystical Christ, they were doing in our names to the historical Christ. If we are envious of the good, we were there in the Scribes and Pharisees. If we are fearful […]
The Crowning Act of Christian Worship
But the greatest blessing which ever came to this earth was the visitation of the Son of God in the form and habit of man. His life, above all lives, is too beautiful to be forgotten; hence we treasure the divinity of His Words in Sacred Scripture, and the charity of His Deeds in our […]
Pain, Sacrifice, Love, Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven
Sacrifice without love is pain. Pain with love is sacrifice. Pain without love is misery. Love without pain is heaven. Love with pain is purgatory. Pain without love is hell. —Archbishop Fulton Sheen, Wartime Prayer Book —I came across the quote above in the Opening the Word program – March 18, 2018, Year B on […]
The Nice and the Awful
The “nice” people think they’re going straight because they’re traveling in the best circles. + It’s a peculiar thing about society, that it has no place for those who are either too bad or too good. That is why on the hill of Calvary, we have our Blessed Lord on the cross in the middle […]
An Inordinate Love of Any Sum
The sin of covetousness includes therefore both the intention one has in acquiring the goods of this world and the manner of acquiring them. It is not the love of an excessive sum which makes it wrong, but an inordinate love of any sum. —from Victory Over Vice by Venerable Fulton Sheen, Ch. 7 – […]
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