Acclaim To the Suffering ChristO Lord, You received affronts without number from Your blasphemers, yet each day You free captive souls from the grip of the ancient enemy. You did not avert Your face from the spittle of perfidy, yet You wash souls in saving waters. You accepted Your scourging without murmur, yet through your... Continue Reading →

First reading and Psalm Exodus 32:1-14 Psalm 106:1-6, 19-23 Second reading Philippians 4:1-9 Gospel Matthew 22:1-14 Theme: We rejoice in the Lord always because of the great things for does for us. When we have sinned God has forgiven and instead of destroying us prepares a banquet for us. Prayer: O merciful Lord, while I... Continue Reading →

Thomas A Kempis' Imitation of Christ is true one of the greatest devotional books ever written. A perfect place to start for those unused to spiritual books and a work which one can come back to time and time again. The tile title truly sums up the book, Thomas calls the reader to focus on... Continue Reading →

But even beyond that, I consider everything a loss in comparison with the superior value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. I have lost everything for him, but what I lost I think of as sewer trash, so that I might gain Christ 9 and be found in him. In Christ I have a righteousness... Continue Reading →

14. In the evening, I went very unwillingly to a society in Aldersgate Street, where one was reading Luther's Preface to the Epistle to the Romans.28 About a quarter before nine, while he was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt... Continue Reading →

God Calls to Us     "Here, therefore, we see more clearly than day that religion took its rise when God called runaway man back to Him, when otherwise he would have been a deserter forever. For he saw that his nakedness, that is, his guilt, was of such kind and degree that he despaired of a... Continue Reading →

Most gracious Father,we pray to you for your holy catholic Church.Fill it with all truth;in all truth with all peace.Where it is corrupt, purge it.Where it is in error, direct it.Where anything is amiss, reform it.Where it is right, strengthen and defend it.Where it is in want, provide for it.Where it is divided, heal it... Continue Reading →

First reading and Psalm Exodus 20:1-4, 7-9, 12-20 Psalm 19 Second reading Philippians 3:4b-14 Gospel Matthew 21:33-46 Theme: God the creator has given the law and now we can press on toward the holiness that helps us dwell upon the solid rock of Christ. Prayer: Lord help me to follow your commandments for my life... Continue Reading →

We know extremely little about the author of this book (not even her real name); we simply know she was an anchorite in the Cathedral of St. Julian in Norwich, England around 1400. The book records visions she received during a prolonged illness. She felt that in these visions God had been revealed to her... Continue Reading →

He emptied himself not because as eternal wisdom he underwent change. For as Eternal Wisdom he is absolutely changeless. Rather without changing he chose to become known to humanity in such a humble form. –Augustine