‘If I Have Washed Your Feet, You Ought to Wash One Another’s Feet’
When we see persons as persons, and things as things, we will have treasure in Heaven
When we see persons as persons, and things as things, we will have treasure in Heaven
‘Homosexual persons are called to chastity. By the virtues of self-mastery that teach them inner freedom, at times by the support of disinterested friendship, by prayer and sacramental grace, they can and should gradually and resolutely approach Christian perfection.’ (CCC 2359)
The Pope said the first beatitude serves as a foundation for the others.
St. Zita’s devout life exemplifies how our daily duties can be a path to heavenly glory.
Pope Francis related the vice of pride to that of vainglory, the topic of last week’s general audience, and emphasized that ‘salvation comes through humility.’
Elizabeth’s life is a gentle rebuke to our fractious age of outrage
Pride poisons reason because the proud refuse to see what they don’t want to see.
‘The humble person is perceived as someone who gives up, someone defeated, someone who has nothing to say to the world. But this … represents God’s own way of acting.’ —Pope Benedict XVI
COMMENTARY: Humanity has a date with destiny but can meet it only by dint of our own heroic stretching.
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