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Friendship with God in Christ
Posted by: Thomas Richard on June 13, 2013
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- Jesuit Wisdom from the 1600’s, True for Today
- What to “give up” for Lent?
- We Must Not Lose the Traditional Latin Mass!
- From Its Chamber, the Whirlwind and Cold – The Bomb Cyclone of 2022
- The Call to Holiness has Escalated
- The Book of Revelation Was Written For Times Like These!
- Calls to Repentance
- How Do We Get Home, From Here?
- God does NOT give Charisms to All the Baptized! (He does give all that is needed.)
- An Open Letter to Part-Time Catholics
- It Has Been Coming to This, From the Start
- An Absolute Must-Read on the CV-19 Shot
- Perfect Hatred and Perfect Love Due, in God
- Final Trial of the Church?
- Consecration to Life in a Culture of Death
- Abortion, CV-19 Vaccines, and the Church
- A Morning Offering, and Brief Commentary
- A Dystopia of Insanity
- Divine Mercy – “Retarded/Lukewarm souls” and Mary’s Joy!
- The Way of the Cross – Easier Than the Impossible Alternative
- A Debt of Honor Is Owed to Mary our Mother
- A New Day is Dawning
- Open Letter to Preachers
- How to Make a Good Confession – Gabrielle (Burke) Vienneau
- Is the Vaccine Moral?
- A Parable for Dark Times: the Ten Maidens with Lamps of Oil
- The Two Churches – Thyatira, U.S.A
- Final Update: Gregory the Pilgrim
- Deep State, Deep Church
- Reflections on a Lost Treasure
- Less than 100 days… a life or death scenario?
- Organized Rioting Across America: A Call to Repentance!
- Covid-19: Call to Repentance!
- Three Essentials in the One Thing Necessary
- precious words in silence heard…
- The First Step Toward Defeating Coronavirus
- The Second Step Toward Defeating Sin and Its Bitter Fruit
- An Interior Pilgrimage
- Because Wickedness is Multiplied
- Church, Behold Your Mother
- A Serious Fault in the Wall
- Blessed Are The Poor In Spirit
- Look Carefully How you Walk
- What Are We To Do?
- Will God Give Us a Third Chance?
- The Church Needs Mary
- Clericalism – an essay you might want to read…
- A time to keep silence, and a time to speak…
- The True Version of Ourselves
- The Interior Liturgy of the Our Father
- The Ordinary Path to Holiness
- The Troubles – The Call to Holiness
- When Good Fences Don’t Make Good Neighbors
- What Title Can Fit The Unthinkable?
- The Memorial of the Queenship of Mary
- Update on Gregory the Pilgrim
- Betrayal of the Gift
- Kerygma, Hierarchy of Truths, Card. Burke and Alpha
- The Choice
- Our Greatest Enemy and Obstacle – the Enemy Within
- On the Interior Life – Dom Chautard
- A Holy Death
- Reevaluating Time Schedules
- St. Therese of Lisieux and “Spiritual Childhood”
- America, One Last Chance, Revisited
- What is Happening, America?
- Foundations of Marian Devotion in the Early Church
- On Faith: Wisdom from Fr. Lallemant, S.J.
- The Cross: Wisdom from Fr. Lallemant, SJ
- Simple Guidelines for Profound and Effective Prayer
- Our Need for Prayer
- Sanity At Last re: “transgendered children”
- Maintenance to Mission -Title in Search of Reality
- Praying Scripture – Lectio Divina (part I)
- The Interior Life, and Martha and Mary
- Church, Will You Awaken Even Now?
- Great Blessings in the Catholic Faith
- Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
- America: Is This One Last Chance?
- A Catholic Program for Change
- The Issue of Abortion
- How Should A Christian Vote?
- The Last American Election?
- We Need The Holy Spirit!
- A Campaign Speech Worth Hearing…
- Catholic Politicians and Public Scandal
- When God Dies
- Seeking the “Still Small Voice” of God
- Catholics: It is Time to Awaken!
- Public Restrooms and Public Insanity
- The Great Banquet – Pope Francis: Phase II
- A Presidential Election Like No Other
- Thoughts in this time of Lent
- What Time Is It?
- Second HPR Article on The Our Father
- The State of my Soul
- Let Us Pray! Really.
- Reflections Upon A Coming Election
- When Law Is Made By The Lawless
- “Unreal Nation” – Concerning a Nation in Denial
- Being Present to Holy Worship
- Bishops Standing Firm
- Yes, He Is A Priest
- The Church is Shrinking; the Faith is in Decline
- Diagnosis of the Heart – Parable of the Sower Part 1
- Diagnosis of the Heart: Parable of the Sower Part 2
- Collapse of Faith in Ireland; Lesson for America
- Reparation: Freely Suffering for the Good of Another
- Acedia: Spiritual Sloth and the Church of Laodicea, USA
- Waiting Vessels…
- Why Catholics Need to have their Marriage Witnessed in the Catholic Church
- Going Beyond “Rediscover Catholicism,” Part I
- Going Beyond “Rediscover Catholicism”, Part II
- Radical Islam and a Bankrupt West
- Update on a Call to Desert Hermitage… Mark Byerly
- The Kerygma
- Maternal Martyrdom
- The Choice to End Freedom
- Righteousness in a Culture of the Lawless
- HPR Article: Lest They Receive It in Vain
- Pilgrimage of Penance, Prayer and Sacrifice
- As For Me and My House….
- Can A Catholic Receive Grace In Vain?
- Contraception, Priesthood and Sexual Abuse (1 & 2)
- Eucharist Is Not “Cannibalism”!
- Trinity Sunday and Mary
- Adam – Where are you?
- Priesthood and the Call to Holiness
- Finding Jesus in the Catholic Church
- Men of Lawlessness
- Lenten Reflection: Discipleship in Christ – the School of Love
- The Natural Moral Law
- Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, or Death, Servitude and the Flight from Truth?
- “It is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.”
- My Parish is a Business?
- Catholics! Some of the Members are Wandering Away!
- Prayer is a Gift Intended to Grow
- Grow in Christ, Marriage and Prayer
- Three Temptations to Spiritual Immaturity
- What Happens to a Church When the Members Won’t Grow Up?
- The Quiet Light of Reverence, and Witness for Christ
- Stifle the mother…
- Thoughts Following a Recent Mass: Catholics Need to Learn to Pray
- Friendship with God in Christ
- Church as Babysitter in a Culture of Death
- On Knowing Him: On Koinonia with Christ
- Watching America Die Before Our Eyes
- Losing One’s Rootedness – Or Not
- The Sacrament of the Moment
- “Every Day is Newtown in America” – Dcn Ed Peitler
- The “Munus Regendi” of the Priest and the Vocation of the Laity
- Prior to Adult Formation, One Thing is Necessary
- Crying in the Desert for a New Evangelization
- Counterfeited Catholic Social Justice equals Social Disaster
- Bishops and Preaching
- Election in America: God works all to the good…
- 2016 – Obama’s America and the Debts of the Church
- Where are the Half-Way Houses for Catholic Evangelization?
- Faith in the “Year of Faith”
- New Blog – “Court of the Gentiles”
- Thoughts after the Republican Convention
- A Contemplative Spirit
- The Dangerous “New-speak” of Modern Progressives – A Catholic Call to Action
- A Plea for Really Committing to Adult Faith Formation
- An Inert Laity – Crucial Misstep to Religious Irrelevance
- An Inert Laity – The Cure
- Mission and Ministry: The World Outside the Parish
- Now available at Amazon.com – The Interior Liturgy of the Our Father – in paperback
- Taking Time to Prayerfully Listen
- The Mass in movements – Conversion Consecration Communion
- Pope Benedict on Adult Formation
- Election Time: A Novena of Rosaries, in Prayer for this Country!
- It’s Time to Wake Up! Re-Evangelization Part I
- Re-Evangelization, Part II
- Building a Nation on Quicksand?
- The Immaculate Conception and Consecration to Jesus through Mary
- Suffering with Patience, in Innocence
- Advent – 2011
- Thanks, On This Thanksgiving Day
- Religion: “No,” Relationship: “Yes”?
- The Straight Way to Jesus
- Take Up The Rosary Once Again – Pope John Paul II
- The Cleansing Power of Grief
- A secular issue worth thinking about: Reform of Congress
- Boredom at Mass
- The Church and the Economic Train-Wreck
- Why Do Catholics Like Celebrity-Saints?
- The Christian Family Today: Trinity Sunday
- Encountering Christ in Holy Scripture with Lectio Divina
- Truth, Goodness, Beauty
- Auschwitz – A School of Holiness
- But It Shall Not Be So Among You
- Art as Parable
- Digital Spirituality
- When the Son of Man Comes…
- The Enmity Among Us
- Prayer and the Four Pillars of the Faith
- The Holy Vocation of Catechist
- The Cheapening of Precious Life
- Is your church spreading the Gospel?
- Advent Thoughts: He is Coming, but before Him, Trials
- A Beautiful Song of Advent
- Bishops and Priests – Listen to Your Pope!
- Fellowship of Consecrated Artists
- What if God were one of us?
- Remembering 9-11
- Republicans: Do Not Neglect the Cultural Agenda!
- Against the Idolatry of Certitude: Learning to Listen
- Silence and Potency, Sterility and Noise
- The Raincloud is Coming
- Dialogue in the Wilderness
- Holy Mass: Re-Creation or Recreation?
- On Homosexual Marriage
- Proposal for a Parish Adult Formation Program
- The Importance of Reverence in the Church
- The One Thing Necessary
- On the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima
- How Close Is the Day?
- Contraception: A Cancer in Marriage
- Deadly Lukewarmness and Apathetic Disciples
- Lukewarm Souls and the Divine Mercy Novena
- Former Catholics and Anti-Catholic Fervor
- Thoughts in the Wilderness
- Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi – Tragedies and THE Tragedy
- The Church Needs the Mission of the Members
- The World Needs the Mission of the Church
- Lectio Divina and Praying Scripture
- Ruins of an Old Church – photography as prophecy
- In the Waiting Room
- What Then is the Church to Do?
- Consecration to Life in a Culture of Death
- The Church and the World
- Final Trial of the Church?
- What “to give up” for Lent?
- What “to give up” for Lent?
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