I love cleaning the house. I'd never have a cleaner - I wouldn't trust them to do it.
The daily adoration or visit to the Blessed Sacrament is the practice which is the fountainhead of all devotional works
The surest, easiest, shortest way is the Eucharist
The organic constitution of the Church is not immutable; but Christian society, just as human society, is subject to perpetual evolution.
We put great confidence in the Holy Rosary for the healing of evils which afflict our times.
The proposition that the principal articles of the Apostles' Creed did not have the same meaning for the Christians of the earliest times as they have for Christians of our time is hereby condemned and proscribed as erroneous.
It is impossible to approve in Catholic publications of a style inspired by unsound novelty which seems to deride the piety of the faithful and dwells on the introduction of a new order of Christian life, on new directions of the Church, on new aspirations of the modern soul, on a new vocation of the clergy, on a new Christian civilisation.
Let anxious anticipation evolve into effective preparation
Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.
Theres a lot to be said for doing what youre not supposed to do, and the rewards of doing what youre supposed to do are more subtle and take longer to become apparent, which maybe makes it less attractive. But your life is the blueprint you make after the building is built.
In so many ways I am the opposite of Jesus' lifestyle. This keeps me up at night. I can't have authentic communion with Him while mired in the trappings He begged me to avoid.