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Saint Theresa of Avila lived in Spain during the time of the Spanish Inquisition. She was a nun who had begun to write of some of her experiences in prayer and the answers to prayers when she was called in front of the Inquisition to determine if she had violated the church’s laws in any…

By this we shall know that we are of the truth, and reassure our hearts before Him whenever our hearts condemn us, for God is greater than our hearts, and He knows everything. (1 John 3:20) In Lent we can comb our consciences to bring to God the sins we recognize that He has forgiven.…

This weekend I watched an advertisement for a new kind of dog collar that contained a GPA that kept track of the dog and brought him home safely. The claim was that it was 93% effective, the first of its kind. Other collars could deliver a pain when a dog left the designated perimeter, but…

The Lord said to Moses, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablet, which you broke.” (Exodus 34:1) The Ten commandments are the backbone of the nation of Israel. They were God’s tool for forming a slave population into a…

My Grandfather’s dairy farm was on a gently sloping hill rising from the Susquehanna River in New York State. As a child I loved to visit the farm and my grandparents. From their back porch where we sometimes ate breakfast or dinner, there was a sweeping view all the way to the river. Many years…

Jacob deceived his father in order to receive the birthright. He deceived his uncle Laban in escaping after managing to have Laban’s sheep bear spotted or speckled young. He deceived his brother Esau on Jacob’s return and went in the opposite direction from the one they had agreed upon. Deceit was almost characteristic of Jacob,…

“He is light without any falsehood, and with that truth, He confounded and destroyed the lie that the Devil told to Eve, with which he broke up the road to Heaven, and the Truth brought the pieces together again, and cemented them with His blood.” ( St. Catherine of Siena,“The Dialogue”) ST. Catherine of Siena…

One day Jesus was quite tired. He had been walking with his disciples for the better part of the morning, and seeing a well at about noon, he sat down near it and let his disciples go to the nearby town to get food for them all. This is the story of Jesus at the…