Illum oportet crescere, me autem minui

“Be so full of love, it overflows from you like rain. You never know who is living in a desert and is in need of water.”

They deceive themselves who believe that union with God consists in ecstasies or raptures, and in the enjoyment of Him. For it consists in nothing except the surrender and subjection of our will - with our thoughts, words and actions - to the will of God.

Pro-Life Vocabulary 101

Thank you for writing this. 

“It cannot be too often repeated that what destroyed the Family in the modern world was Capitalism. No doubt it might have been Communism, if Communism had ever a chance, outside that semi-Mongolian wilderness where it actually flourishes. But, so far as we are concerned, what has broken up households, and encourages divorces, and treated the old domestic virtues with more and more open contempt, is the epoch and power of Capitalism. It is Capitalism that has forced a moral feud and a commercial competition between the sexes; that has destroyed the influence of the parent in favor of the influence of the employer; that has driven men from their homes to look for jobs; that has forced them to live near their factories or their firms instead of near their families; and, above all, that has encouraged, for commercial reasons, a parade of publicity and garish novelty, which is in its nature the death of all that was called dignity and modesty by our mothers and fathers.”

Hey friends

I’m sorry to resurface to ask for more help, but I’m very anxious, which is a mixture of real problems/dangers, and imagined or exaggerated things - I would greatly appreciate any prayers anyone could offer for me, regarding those issues as well as my emotional state in itself, the complex and difficult relationships in my life, and my next confession