Glad Trad 9.2: Br. Timothy, Diocesan Hermit
In today's podcast we hear more of the conversion of Br. Timothy and his advice on how to live the spiritual life.
In today's podcast we hear more of the conversion of Br. Timothy and his advice on how to live the spiritual life.
If things fall apart at the human level of the Church, we actually need St. Therese of Lisieux more than any other modern saint. Was St. Therese just the "cute" saint of French rhetoric, or was she the secret weapon of light God gave us to face the dark warnings of Fatima? We consider her post-humous intercession in an exorcism that happened in 1928 in Iowa and consider how confidence in the goodness of God is the virtue between the vices of Pelagianism and Quietism. As St. Augustine wrote, "God provides the wind; man must raise the sail."
Any species of animal must have a formation commensurate to its nature. We are humans with a human nature, but we are called to participate in the Divine Nature through baptism. How can our formation equal the grace already transmitted in the sacraments? Two ways: 1)To live according to the spirit, not the flesh (Romans 8) and 2) To go to the mother who singularly formed the human nature of the God-man.
Most of this short sermon is taken from St. Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica II.II 129 on Magnanimity. The ending account is from the Fioretti on the life of St. Francis of Assisi, the basilica found in the picture above.
The people that John the Baptist preached to were very similar to the people of today.
Everyone can fast from something to increase their desire for God.
How to be holy like Mary (kind of.)
This sermon is about Mount Tabor and the Transfiguration by way of the Sermon on the Mount and the countercultural calling of the Maccabean martyrs.
Cast into the deep.
Today’s sermon is about fortitude as we prepare for Pentecost. If you’re listening on the blog, please consider joining and ranking me on iTunes so you have my sermons to go! You can find a free subscription to my sermons here on iTunes at this link here on my blog.