What a long strange trip it’s been… loved touring Australia with @ParousiaMedia. Can’t wait to see what the Lord has in store with my new Aussie friends

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The fact that the self and the particular identity of any one person cannot be circumscribed by an essentialist definition does not mean that it is not real. A simpler way to say this is that our identity is somewhat a mystery in its fullest sense but yet who we are is something.

The point about grace and nature and God’s providence and my free will is relatively simple. What does one experience in this precise moment? Is God’s grace operative? How can it not be? Is my nature and will operative? Same thing. It can’t be anything other than this. Yet, how.

The false self and true self binary created by Thomas Merton and the spirituality that followed him is as problematic as the static spirituality it seeks to deconstruct. We experience self as a unified whole. Likewise, our self is fulfilled in Jesus Christ through the grace.

There is a tendency with self help spirituality to make aphorisms, often not found in the Bible, that are designed to affirm us in our current state without taking into account the circumstances of our lives. While it is good to feel loved and appreciated, we cannot neglect the.

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The good that is proportionate to the common state of nature is to be found in the majority; and is wanting in the minority. The good that exceeds the common state of nature is to be found in the minority, and is wanting in the majority. Thus it is clear that the majority of men.

What do you see in the cross, my friend? Do not your eyes see pain, humiliation, defeat, an innocent man in a corrupt world? But close the door to your senses and pierce the veil, what do you see now? Do you not see victory? Glory? Perfection that conquers all and lays hold of

The heresy of modernism is mutlifaceted, touching every world religion and forming in itself a claim to a new universal religion, a religion that absorbs all the previous religions into a new mythology and a universal spirituality. The tendency of modernism wherever it appears is.

There is a subtle paradox within the understanding of God’s providence. In the depths of our hearts, we must recognize that this moment, complete with its tapestry of heroes and villains, is precisely ordained by God from eternity and contained within his plan of salvation. And.

“To experience and enter into these central paradoxes is not a matter of studying more or more sophisticated theories. At its core, it is the journey into the darkness of the heart. It is to be stripped of all things of this world and to die the death of contemplation…. To seek.

I am grateful to join Fr Calloway on a pilgrimage to Poland - May 15 – 23, 2026. Would love to have you join us! .

“The key is not to resolve the paradox, but to penetrate its truth through contemplation. Contemplation is a kind of beholding, or seeing, the truth revealed by God. This does not take place with our rational faculties, but only happens when we transcend their natural operations.

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I took a break from studying East Asian religions for about 10 years to focus on the Summa of Aquinas and other sources. Having gone through most of the major sources in Catholicism, I have turned my attention back to the East. My main idea I am working on is the idea of

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One of the elders said to me, “Do not weep. The lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David,* has triumphed, enabling him to open the scroll with its seven seals.”