Finally I have made another segment of our retreat, bringing to you the catechism questions on the Fourth Commandment. There are some important ideas about love and respect for our parents and those in authority as well as some insights about family life. I think you’ll like this lesson. God bless you! Listen to the […]
Today I wanted to give you a little lesson since it is the feast of Our Lady of Fatima. She is the inspiration behind the many things I have learned since I began distributing rosaries in honor of the 100th anniversary of the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima in 1917. Three years later on […]
Today’s lesson for our retreat, as we strive to grow closer to God, helps us examine our behavior with regard to the Second Commandment, “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord, thy God in vain.” There are many who disobey this commandment each day in large or small ways. There is so much […]
Today we hear another one of John’s Easter stories…The apostles go fishing, and Jesus makes them breakfast after a long night of fishing. He helps the catch lots of fish, too! Listen to the story here: Or Download it here:
In today’s ‘Lesson From A Crisis’ we continue to learn the catechism questions that teach us Catholic teaching about relics and holy images. There is so much to learn about our faith and our practices of faith. We also hear about the importance of catechisms in learning faith and even hear the story of a […]
Today we continue our study of the questions of the catechism on the First Commandment. We learn about the sins against hope and love as well as the reason that love of the saints does not conflict with the First Commandment. Sometimes other Christians accuse us of disobeying the First Commandment because we love the […]
Today as we continue our retreat we begin to learn the Catechism questions that teach us about the First Commandment. It is important for us to know those things God expects of us to grow in our faith and those things that we should avoid that can lead us away from God. Listen to the […]
In today’s lesson from the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius of Loyola we learn about ‘the spirit of the world’, that aspect of ‘the world’ that is under the dominion of the devil and leads us away from God. There are three attitudes which lead us toward sin and as you hear about them, you’ll […]
Continuing our Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, today we begin to learn about the three graces of conversion:1) the grace to know our sins and detest them, 2) the grace to feel the disorder of our sins so that we turn away from them and 3) the grace to may know ‘the world’, that which […]
I recorded this’ Lesson From A Crisis’ talk on Holy Saturday. The first part of the talk continues St. Ignatius’ Spiritual Exercise as we get into the topic of pondering our sins and their effect on our lives and on God’s working through us. Toward the end of the lesson, I look at the beautiful […]