Editor’s note: for most Traditional Catholics, this week marks the September Embertide, which is a week which includes fasting and penance on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. Read more about this custom here. By Nathaniel Richards Three Words to Keep in Mind If we are squeamish about fasting, it is because it is a sacrificial behavior, which means something gets killed. … [Read more...] about A Few Words on Fasting Pt. 2
Spiritual
A Few Words on Fasting, Pt. 1
By Nathaniel Richards For you have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin (Heb. xii. 4) While Satan—the Enemy of our soul—is not God and cannot be everywhere at once, he never sleeps or takes a vacation. At all hours, somewhere in the world he and the other foul spirits in his ranks are hard at work—trying to destroy souls so they may not serve Almighty … [Read more...] about A Few Words on Fasting, Pt. 1
Casting Your Cares
By Nathaniel Richards God resisteth the proud, writes St. Peter, but to the humble he giveth grace (I Pt.v. 5). Our Blessed Lord, when the fullness of time had come, did not deign to become Incarnate in the womb of a great earthly Queen or Empress who had many possessions or monetary riches; rather, by the power of the Holy Spirit and the Fiat spoken by a simple Hebrew maiden … [Read more...] about Casting Your Cares
What We’re Fighting For
By Nathaniel Richards At this very moment, you and I are in a battle waged for eternal souls. My soul. Your soul. We creatures are either for the Lord Jesus Christ and perpetual union with Him in the Divine Life of the Holy Trinity or we’re not. There is no middle ground. To believe that we’re in anything other than a battle for our souls is lie. As baptized soldiers in the … [Read more...] about What We’re Fighting For
The Gifts of the Holy Spirit and the Perfection of the Virtues
From Garrigou-Lagrange, Three Ages of the Spiritual Life (Herder: 1947), 76 … [Read more...] about The Gifts of the Holy Spirit and the Perfection of the Virtues