Virtue Connection is 7 years old on the Solemnity of the Annunciation! To celebrate, I’ve invited St. Bernard (1090-1153) as guest blogger…
Mary’s Bold Humility
Posts Categorized: Beatitudes
Almsgiving: Where’s Your Comfort Zone?
Almsgiving is one of the “pillar” virtues of Lent, along with prayer and fasting. We give alms because Jesus commands us to…
Short on serenity? Don’t worry about it!
Ven. Aloysius Schwartz (1930-1992) founded World Villages for Children (WorldVillages.org) to feed, house, educate, and form in the faith abandoned children and…
Strolling Through the Lord’s Prayer
St. Augustine said that every prayer we could ever think of is already in the Lord’s Prayer. The Our Father is like…
A Butterfly Rocked his World
Three thousand years ago a Psalmist wrote, “Your inheritance was worn out, but You refreshed it (Ps 67:10).” As I considered this,…
A Way to (Almost) Instant Peace
My guest blogger this week is Thomas à Kempis (c. 1380–1471), who wrote The Imitation of Christ—the most popular spiritual book, they…
Pondering With Mary
A reader’s comment that she was “following the path of Mary” during Advent made me ponder just what the path of Mary…
3-minute Vacation at the Beach
If you missed your vacation this year because you can’t travel, come with me to the beach! I created a 3-minute meditation…
Local Wildlife & Poetry
This week I made this video for you from some “wildlife” I photographed in my local park. While you’re watching the deer…
How to Attain Purity (advice from an expert)
St. Gregory of Nyssa (335-394) wrote that blessedness does not lie in knowing something about God, but rather in possessing God within…
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