Doubts

Napísané 19/03/2021 , autor: admin

“My spirit is faint within me” (Ps 143:4). Everyone is tormented from time to time with doubts and uncertainty. It is a very unpleasant feeling, and people look for a way to get rid of it. How can they do it? They search for more information, or they make a decision based on feeling, or they don’t make a decision.

St. Joseph, Fulfiller of God’s Intentions

Napísané 15/03/2021 , autor: admin

A few days later heaven seemed to respond to this blind trust, which Mother Alphonse had toward St. Joseph. A postulant, Margarete Chevreux, was the means through whom St. Joseph made known God’s intentions. Since the Alsatian dialect was strange to her, she found it hard to make herself understood. She was so disappointed that she determined to return home. But Mother Alphonse Marie, to whom she had entrusted herself, said to her, “You may go in peace, but you will return.” Pokračovať v čítaní →

Acting

Napísané 22/02/2021 , autor: admin

“For your kindness is before my eyes, and I do according to your truth” (cf. Ps 26:3). Acting is a deliberate act, the decision of a will to do something. Johann Gottlieb Fichte says that the value of a person is not decided by what he knows, but by his actions.

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Reflecting

Napísané 22/02/2021 , autor: admin

“In the night I meditate in my heart; I ponder and my spirit broods” (Ps 77:7). Reflecting or meditating helps to reevaluate events of life, and draw conclusions for further action. However, reflecting is possible only in silence and concentration. Pokračovať v čítaní →

Listening

Napísané 21/02/2021 , autor: admin

“I will hear what God proclaims” (Ps 85:9), says the psalmist. So already pious Israelites practiced silence by giving space to God to talk to them. Young Samuel in the silence of the night heard a voice, and instructed by Eli, he answered the calling, “Speak, for your servant is listening” (1 Sam 3:10). St. Joseph also listened to the Lord’s voice through an angel, who appeared to him in a dream saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary your wife into your home. For it is through the Holy Spirit that this child has been conceived in her” (Mt 1:20). When the Magi departed the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph again in his dream and said, “Rise, take the child and his mother, flee to Egypt…“ (Mt 2:13).