There is much that can be learned from the example of those who are younger than us, especially children, if we but have have the humility to learn from them. Lately I have been learning from a 15 year old named Carlo whose life inspires me. He was just a regular kid who played video …
Tag: Holy Eucharist
St. Mother Teresa’s 1,2 Secret to love Jesus to the Max
By her life, St. Mother Teresa witnessed to the five-finger-gospel: “you did it to me.” She practiced the corporal works of mercy listed in the gospel according to Matthew chapter 25, which she summarized on the palm of her hand as the gospel on five fingers. (She also practiced the spiritual works of mercy as …
St. Thomas Aquinas: to Know in Order to Love
St. Thomas Aquinas shows us what it is to love God with all of your mind, as well as all of your body, and strength, and soul. Before he was a theologian and scholar of Scripture, before he was a philosopher, St. Thomas was a mystic who strove to love God as much as it …
Holy Thursday under Quarantine
By Juan de Juanes – [2], Public Domain, Link This evening is the beginning of Sacred Paschal Triduum, the holiest 3 days of the year in which the mystery of the Passion, Death and Resurrection are made present. We can actually enter into it. Holy Thursday is when Jesus instituted the Eucharist: “I am the …