Virtues are good habits of character. No one’s come up with a better way to be happy than to discover how to…
Most of us would like to be more patient. It’s a virtue we feel the lack of in everything from standing in…
Here’s my Lenten lesson so far: I am totally dependent on God to make any change in thought or behavior at all….
I spent Friday and Saturday at a teaching conference in Baltimore. As usual, I bought too many books. One of them, Freedom…
In last week’s blog post, I shared something from St. Basil about love. A reader emailed me: “I got everything except the…
St. Basil the Great (330-379) wrote guidance to his monks on “fanning into flame the spark of divine love that is hidden within…
A friend’s son died last summer. I asked her, a devout atheist, if she would mind if I prayed for them. She…
My emotions have been pulled every which way during the last few days. Happiness in listening to things I agree with. Unhappiness listening…
The 56-year-old woman slumped over the arm of a wheelchair near the nursing home elevator was my mother, Sylvia, two weeks after…
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