
Virtue Connection is 7 years old on the Solemnity of the Annunciation! To celebrate, I’ve invited St. Bernard (1090-1153) as guest blogger…
Virtue Connection is 7 years old on the Solemnity of the Annunciation! To celebrate, I’ve invited St. Bernard (1090-1153) as guest blogger…
Almsgiving is one of the “pillar” virtues of Lent, along with prayer and fasting. We give alms because Jesus commands us to…
Ven. Aloysius Schwartz (1930-1992) founded World Villages for Children (WorldVillages.org) to feed, house, educate, and form in the faith abandoned children and…
St. Augustine said that every prayer we could ever think of is already in the Lord’s Prayer. The Our Father is like…
Three thousand years ago a Psalmist wrote, “Your inheritance was worn out, but You refreshed it (Ps 67:10).” As I considered this,…
My guest blogger this week is Thomas à Kempis (c. 1380–1471), who wrote The Imitation of Christ—the most popular spiritual book, they…
A reader’s comment that she was “following the path of Mary” during Advent made me ponder just what the path of Mary…
If you missed your vacation this year because you can’t travel, come with me to the beach! I created a 3-minute meditation…
This week I made this video for you from some “wildlife” I photographed in my local park. While you’re watching the deer…
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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