Month: October 2015

What is a Charism? (Part II of II)

What specifically is the Carmelite charism and the charism of the Carmelite Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Los Angeles? Find out in the conclusion of the two-part series on what a charism is.

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Why You Don’t Want to Go to Purgatory

What’s wrong with setting your (spiritual) sights on Purgatory? Are we missing the boat when we do this? Find out when a new member of SpiritualDirection.com’s writing team, Matthew Leonard, tackles this question.

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Confessions of a -Say the Black, Do the Red Catholic- - SpiritualDirection.com

Confessions of a “Say the Black Do the Red” Catholic

I have no doubt that the Pharisees would have loved the phrase, “Say the black, do the red.” By the way, I always say “Amen!” when I read it myself. Here’s the hard part: external orthodoxy is a distorted orthodoxy when it is not accompanied by a properly oriented interior life.

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Mysticism and the Machine: Mysticism and Magisterium Part V

Is the liturgy a grace machine? Fr Angelo Geiger brings the words of Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger) and Cardinal Robert Sarah to bear as he examines this question in part V of his Mystery and Magisterium Series and how the Blessed Virgin Mary is key to better appreciating the sacraments and the liturgy.

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What is a Charism? (Part I of II)

What are charisms? And, who are they for? What does the Church have to say about them? Find out when the Carmelite Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Los Angeles introduce this topic in this first post of a two-part series.

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Truth Can Be Dangerous

What happens when two truths seem to compete against each other? What truth should win out? How do we deal with this? Find out what strategies Charlotte Ostermann recommends which we can employ in order to allow the Holy Spirit to guide us into all truth.

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