Experience the Living Word with Bishop David Walker
Migration is not an easy or a pleasant thing for a tiny bird to face. It must turn deliberately from solid land, from food, shelter, a certain measure of security, and fly across an ocean unfriendly to its life, destitute of everything it needs. We make much of the heroism and endurance of our airmen…
Ash Wednesday’s clear message is one of invitation to enter forty days of prayer, penance and almsgiving in preparation for our greatest feast day, Easter! In the early Church these forty days were a time of retreat for those about to be baptised.
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were….
Here are ten quotes from Catholic saints and spiritual figures that highlight the significance of the theological virtue of charity (love).
The Christian virtue of hope is one of the three theological virtues, alongside faith and charity (love). Hope is the confident expectation of the fulfilment of God’s promises, especially the ultimate promise of eternal life with Him. It is a trust in God’s goodness, faithfulness, and providence, even in the face of trials and uncertainties….
We take each moment for granted. It is here and gone, often without us noticing it or being aware of its importance and richness. Yet, in some sense, it is all we have. Someone once said that it is all we do have: the past is gone, the future is not yet here; this moment…
Nothing in all nature is so lovely and so vigorous, so perfectly at home in its environment, as a fish in the sea. It’s surroundings give to it a beauty, quality, and power which is not its own. We take it out, and at once a poor, limp dull thing, fit for nothing, is gasping…
In this storm of love two spirits strive together: the spirit of God and our own spirit. God, through the Holy Spirit, inclines himself towards us; and, thereby, we are touched in love. And our spirit, by God’s workings and by the power of love, presses and inclines itself into God: and thereby, God is…
The four cardinal virtues—prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance—are central to the formation of the human person in moral philosophy. Here’s how they each contribute to character development: Together, these virtues form a framework for ethical behaviour and character formation. They influence the human person by guiding actions, shaping decisions, and fostering a moral identity aligned…
THE INTERNAL SENSE OF IMAGINATION PASSIONS PURIFICATION 1765 There are many passions. The most fundamental passion is love, aroused by the attraction of the good. Love causes a desire for the absent good and the hope of obtaining it; this movement finds completion in the pleasure and joy of the good possessed. the apprehension of…