VLX 14: How to Beat Temptations in Prayer
We look to St. Anthony of the Desert and ultimately Christ Our Lord to conquer our temptations in mental prayer.
We look to St. Anthony of the Desert and ultimately Christ Our Lord to conquer our temptations in mental prayer.
A Cuban grandmother recently wrote: "Communism thrives on chaos, that’s why it’s always referred to as a 'revolution.' And that is what’s happening right now. It takes advantage of any situation to promote chaos. We have a saying in Spanish 'tira la piedra y esconde la mano' translates 'throw stones but hide your hand' they organize the riot but do not show up for it, they convince people to destroy and loot but you will not find them in the video or the photos and if you ask the participants in the riot what is it all about they will not have an answer. Their goal is to create chaos [...]
Consider this statistic: That is a a secular government statistic. Do the math on it: 4,151 divided by 29,000,000 (the population of Texas) comes to 0.000143. That means that 0.0014% of the population of Texas has died of coronavirus. And that is probably the number that comes to us after over-reporting of non-covid fatalities as coronavirus. But assuming it is true, this means that the chance of any American dying of coronavirus is now 0.0014%. There is no reason to believe the statistics in the rest of the USA are any different. Even the mainstream media has admitted the "curve has been flattened." This proves that not only is [...]
We begin the second article of the Apostles Creed: I believe in Jesus Christ, His Only Son, Our Lord. This is the newest (and best so far) of my online doctrinal audio series of the Catechism of Pope St. Pius X (CPX.)
Meditating on Jesus overcoming the devil in the desert with special emphasis on doctrine today.
As I mentioned in my last blog post, on 12 Feb 1974, the Russian Alexander Solzhenitsyn both penned his famous short essay against communism’s oppression, Live Not By Lies and was arrested (and then exiled to West Germany) for his lack of subservience to the communist government of the USSR. His courage and his intellectual work in writing Live Not By Lies was the crack in the dyke that eventually broke down the communist structure of the USSR and brought so many Russians to desire—and later fight for—freedom. The above link from a Russian Orthodox website lists the resolutions Alexander Solzhenitsyn took in order never to capitulate to the lies of the [...]
How is original sin transmitted? What is the remedy?
Apophatic and Cataphatic meditation upon the baptism of Jesus.
CPX Q/A 35-39 on the Creation and Fall of Mankind.
We meditate upon surrendering to Jesus and baptism as the beginning of the life of grace in the soul.