Bound in Love

Man and Wife, Claimed by Christ, Bound in Love, Stumbling toward Heaven

  • Rejoice and Be Converted

    Today is the fourth Sunday in Lent which is frequently known by the Latin word that opens the entrance antiphon. And that word is laetare. Laetare means rejoice. And as we enter the church on this fourth Sunday in Lent we are met with the command to rejoice. And on this Rejoice Sunday we are Continue reading

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  • Father Almighty

    So far we have covered the beginning of the Creed, and we have covered the words: “I believe in God.” The next concept is the Father Almighty. And Monsignor Knox uses this to take a look at the problem of suffering. People struggle with the fact that a loving God who is Almighty doesn’t seem Continue reading

  • Hungry to Know Our Dignity

    The talk will revolve around the parable of the Prodigal Son and St. Pope John Paul II’s 1980 encyclical on the Mercy of God known by its Latin title, “Dives in Misericordia.” Because one is never sure of the depth of an audience’s familiarity with the Bible, let me give you a very brief synopsis Continue reading

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  • The Creed in Slow Motion Pt 1.

    Origins Ronald Knox was an Anglican whose conversion was partly due to his relationship with G.K. Chesterton, a famous public Catholic intellectual at the time. Having gone through the English upper-class education system and been ordained as an Anglican priest in 1912, he was brought into the Catholic Church in 1917 and quickly ordained a Continue reading

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  • The Four Temperaments

    The pattern of inclinations and reactions that proceed from the physiological constitution of the individual. Something permanent that admits of only secondary modification. (OUR WIRING.) Sanguine Temperament Reacts quickly and strongly to almost any stimulation or impression Reaction is usually of short duration Remembrance of past experiences does not easily arouse a new response. Usually Continue reading

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  • How to Have a Fruitful Lent

    by Helen Young Lent From the USSCB: Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are obligatory days of fasting and abstinence for Catholics. In addition, Fridays during Lent are obligatory days of abstinence. For members of the Latin Catholic Church, the norms on fasting are obligatory from age 18 until age 59. When fasting, a person is Continue reading

  • Lenten Disciplines

    This is the last Sunday before we start the season of Lent. Ash Wednesday is this Wednesday. If we have not already been thinking about them, we need to think about the Lenten disciplines of prayer, almsgiving, and fasting that we will begin in a few days. The scripture for today directs our minds to Continue reading

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  • Vainglory

    The desire for glory when glory is due to God alone, hence vain (empty) glory. St. Thomas’ three ways glory can be vain the things for which one seeks glory are vain or petty – WRONG THINGS the persons from whom one seeks glory are uncertain or lacking in judgment – WRONG PEOPLE the end Continue reading

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  • Melancholy/Sloth

    Sloth seeks undue rest in so far as it spurns the Divine good Sloth is not an aversion of the mind from any spiritual good, but from the Divine good, to which the mind is obliged to adhere. He is sorry to have to do something for God’s sake. Evil in itself (sadness in reaction Continue reading

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  • Anger/Wrath

    Unreasoned anger, willing injury or damage to the object of one’s anger, unreasoned either due to the object of the anger or the mode of the anger. Scriptural/Doctoral “Let all indignation and anger be put away from you.” Ephesians 4:31 St. Gregory: “zealous anger troubles the eye of reason, whereas sinful anger blinds it.” Daughters Continue reading

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