Sunday, October 24, 2010

Justification by Penitence


Here is the closing sentence of my homily for today on Luke 18:9-14: the pharisee and the publican.




May the Most Holy Virgin, Help of Christians, in this month of the Holy Rosary, obtain for us the humility and supernatural vision to truly know ourselves and to live a truly penitent life and to transform ourselves in the face of God in Christ Jesus in the Church.

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Thirteenth Century Women Mystics





In his past three Wednesday Audiences the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI has given a short biography and sampling of the thought of three prominent feminine medieval holy women who reached the highest degrees of holy love: Blessed Angela of Foligno, Saint Gertrude the Great, and Saint Matilde.
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