Overcome these 4 Pitfalls Men Face in Prayer – The Catholic Gentleman

How often do you feel that you are never improving in prayer? Perhaps you don’t have a clear understanding of

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Development of Doctrine and Its Discontents – Crisis Magazine

Development of Doctrine—a legitimate way to understand how the Church’s teaching appear different in different ages—has become a way to

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German Synod: Bishops Ignore Warnings From Rome. : STILUM CURIAE

ROME – At the start of their spring plenary meeting, the leader of the German bishops’ conference told reporters that

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God is now Our Mother. Modernist attempt to feminise liturgy.

How Annette Jantzen wants to feminise the language of liturgy. The language of the liturgy is patriarchal, she says: This

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YMCA: ‘Youth sector is on its knees’

New report shows a disparity in spending per head between Wales and England ISTOCK YOUNG people are suffering as a result of

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Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: First Thursday in Lent

Meditations for every day of the year by Bishop ✠Richard Challoner

Carissimi; Today’s Mass: First Thursday in Lent

The titular church of the famous deaconry of the Suburra was dedicated to the Sicilian martyr Agatha; in the eighth century a monastery was attached to it…

Spiritual Reading for the First Thursday in Lent

However, those who seek perfection may, without the danger of vain-glory, occasionally perform very rigorous mortifications. For example, by doing with only bread and water on the days of devotion, on Fridays and Saturdays, on the vigils of the Blessed Virgin, and on similar occasions; for such fasts are ordinarily practised by fervent souls.

Morning Prayers for the First Thursday in Lent ~ Dom Prosper Guéranger

During the season of Lent, the Christian, on waking in the morning, will unite himself with the Church… 

Morning Meditations for the First Thursday in Lent ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

His heart shall be as hard as a stone and as firm as a smith’s anvil. God does not indeed harden the habitual sinner, but He withdraws His grace in punishment of his ingratitude for past favours; and thus his heart becomes as hard as a stone. And St. Thomas of Villanova says: “Hardness of heart is a sign of damnation.”