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2019-01-22T15:38:50-05:00

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Off the Shelf 040 with Fr. Ed Broom – Total Consecration

Last updated on: January 22, 2019 at 3:38 pm By Pete Socks

Fr. Ed: Father Ed Broom, OMV, is Associate Pastor of St. Peter Chanel Church in Hawaiian Gardens, California. He is a member of the Oblates of the Virgin Mary and was ordained by St. John Paul II on May 25, 1986. Fr. Ed teaches Catholic Ignatian Marian Spirituality through articles, podcasts, a radio show, retreats and spiritual direction. In this episode Father Ed and I take a look at the practice of Total Consecration. We examine the “classical method” of Saint Louis... Read more

Off the Shelf

Father Ed Broom

Sophia Institute Press

Total Consecration. Breadbox Media

2017-09-24T06:13:25-05:00

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Free will is the problem—and the solution; Church Fathers: Day 069

Last updated on: September 24, 2017 at 6:13 am By Pete Socks

To pagans who blame everything on “fate,” Tatian answers that our miseries are our own fault. Our own free will brought evil into the world—but our own free will can reject evil. Why should I admit that we’re born by “fate,” when I see such managers of “fate” as the pagan gods? How can you be “fated” to be sleepless from greed? Why are you “fated” to grasp at everything, and die often? Die to the world, rejecting the madness... Read more

A Year with the Church Fathers

Mike Aquilina

Saint Benedict Press

Tatian

2017-09-24T06:03:03-05:00

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Rely on what no one can take away; Church Fathers: Day 068

Last updated on: September 24, 2017 at 6:03 am By Pete Socks

Expensive tack doesn’t make a good horse, says St. John Chrysostom. Likewise, wealth, health, and reputation don’t make a good man. All these things can be taken away, but nothing can take away real virtue. What is the virtue of a horse? Is it to have a bridle studded with gold and straps to match, and a silk band to fasten the housing, and colorful clothes embroidered with gold thread, and headgear studded with jewels, and hair braided with gold... Read more

A Year with the Church Fathers

Mike Aquilina

Saint Benedict Press

Saint John Chrysostom

2017-09-29T07:45:18-05:00

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Time to water that dry prayer life

Last updated on: September 29, 2017 at 7:45 am By Pete Socks

Prayer is a fundamental part of every good spiritual routine. Are you finding that your prayer time is slacking off a bit? The daily pressures of life overtaking what once used to be a highlight of your day? Or perhaps you never had a prayer life to speak of and are at a point where you have decided to establish a normal prayer routine in your life. Sister Mary Kathleen Glavich has the answers you need in your book Praying... Read more

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Praying On Empty

Sister Kathleen Glavich

Twenty-Third Publications

2017-09-24T05:56:46-05:00

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Follow the promptings of nature; Church Fathers: Day 067

Last updated on: September 24, 2017 at 5:56 am By Pete Socks

Moral law is natural, says St. Basil. No one needs to teach it to us; we already know what’s right and wrong. When we violate the basic principles of morality, we not only go against God, we go against the nature he created in us. We shall not be able to say in self-justification that we have learned useful knowledge in books, since the untaught law of nature makes us choose that which is advantageous to us. Do you know... Read more

A Year with the Church Fathers

Mike Aquilina

Saint Basil

Saint Benedict Press

2017-09-24T05:52:08-05:00

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Recognize the good emotions; Church Fathers: Day 066

Last updated on: September 24, 2017 at 5:52 am By Pete Socks

A good Christian is not insensibly tranquil, says St. Augustine. Even in heaven, we will know joy and love; here on earth, we also know sadness and compassion. To be without those emotions would be to be less than human. Since we must live a good life in order to gain a blessed life, a good life gets all the emotions right, and a bad life gets them wrong. But in the blessed life eternal there will be love and... Read more

A Year with the Church Fathers

Mike Aquilina

Saint Augustine

Saint Benedict Press

2017-09-24T05:46:45-05:00

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To know God, live a godly life; Church Fathers: Day 065

Last updated on: September 24, 2017 at 5:46 am By Pete Socks

No one can force you to listen to Christian teaching, says St. Ephrem the Syrian. If you really want to listen, though, you need to live a life worthy of your adoption as a child of God. The doctrine is not of compulsion; the word of life is of free will. If you are willing to hear the doctrine, cleanse the field of your will, so that the good seed will not fall among the thorns of vain speculations. If... Read more

A Year with the Church Fathers

Mike Aquilina

Saint Benedict Press

Saint Ephrem

2017-09-24T05:40:49-05:00

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Find the temple in your heart; Church Fathers: Day 064

Last updated on: September 24, 2017 at 5:40 am By Pete Socks

When the Epistle of Barnabas was written, the Temple in Jerusalem—the center of the worship of God for a thousand years—had been destroyed, never to be rebuilt. But there is still a temple of God, says Barnabas. Is there still a temple of God? There is—where he himself declared he would make and complete it. Learn, then, how it will be built in the name of the Lord. Before we believed in God, the dwelling of our heart was corrupt... Read more

A Year with the Church Fathers

Barnabas

Mike Aquilina

Saint Benedict Press

2017-09-24T10:04:48-05:00

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CBB Giveaway: From Islam to Christ

Last updated on: September 24, 2017 at 10:04 am By Pete Socks

The weekly giveaway is BACK! This week one lucky winner will receive a copy of From Islam to Christ: One Woman’s Path through the Riddles of God by Derya Little (have a listen to my interview with Derya on Breadbox Media) sponsored by Carmel Communications marketing firm for Ignatius Press. I use Rafflecopter to run my giveaways which makes it simple for you and me. The contest begins now and ends next Monday 10/02 with a winner chosen later that day, enter below! a... Read more

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Carmel Communications

2017-09-24T05:30:10-05:00

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Imitate God, not the animals; Church Fathers: Day 063

Last updated on: September 24, 2017 at 5:30 am By Pete Socks

The gifts of language and thought, says St. Ephrem the Syrian, are what distinguish us from the animals and make us the image of God. What a terrible thing it is, then, when we use these gifts to be like animals instead of like God! God gave us speech that is free like himself, in order that free speech might serve our independent free will. And by speech, too, we are the likeness of the Giver of it, since as... Read more

A Year with the Church Fathers

Aint Ephrem

Mike Aquilina

Saint Benedict Press

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