Why Protestants Would Benefit from Penance and Mortification of the Flesh Recovering the Christian art of self-denial, repentance, and mastery over the appetites There is a curious irony in the history of Protestant Christianity. In seeking to protect the primacy…
The devotion of The Holy Way of the Cross, the oldest of all devotions, consists of 14 Stations. St. Alphonsus Liguori's prayers for this devotion guide us as we follow Our Lord in His bitter Passion.
During the Agony in the Garden, Our Lord Jesus endured three sets of sorrows, so to speak: First he was shown all the sins of the world, from its beginning to its end, then it was made known to Him…
Lent is coming. Are you still looking for penance suggestions? I have a few to offer. Lent is your 40-day window of opportunity! Bl. Anne Catherine Emmerich, when recounting Jesus’ descent into Limbo, relates the following concerning how we must…
Do I have to do this in front of someone else, a spiritual director or some sort of 'accountability partner'?
“Free Will”, “Your Choice” – Theologians as well as philosophers have written more about the topic than one person can read and digest in a lifetime. Our Lord Jesus, on the other hand, can sum it up much more succinctly:…
Why penance? If I confess my sins and am properly contrite in heart, is that not enough to atone for my sins? Why penance, then? What additional good does penance, self-imposed or otherwise, do to the penitent if a change…
There are sorrowful sets of seven to concentrate on when we align our penance with the suffering of Christ, and there are also joyous sets of seven. Joyous sets of seven invite us to reflect, not so much of our…
We pray the Our Father often, maybe so often that we forget what we are praying for particularly. Seven petitions make up this prayer that the Lord Jesus Christ taught His disciples, seven petitions that we pray to this day.…
Nobody can obtain pardon for a sin he does not regret because contrition is a prerequisite for pardon. In other words, nobody can expect pardon who keeps on sinning because he has not understood how much his sin offends God.…