In St. Benedict’s Rule, the first step on his ladder of humility is that one must always keep the fear of God before one’s eyes. As I have said earlier, “fear” isn’t raw, naked terror, but more along the lines of respect. After all, who is God? He is the One who made you: you …
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It is the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, and the Second Reading from the Mass for today is from Paul’s Second Letter to Timothy: 2 Tim 4:6-8,17-18;I, Paul, am already being poured out like a libation, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have competed well; I have finished the race; …
This is just a heads-up to announce another days-long project for this blog. I am going to start a 12 day long meditation on St. Benedict’s “12 Step Ladder of Humility”. I think I mentioned this back in my first post in January 2007 as something I was going to do, and well, it’s better …
John, from the Venerable Matt Talbot Resource Center emailed me a link to an interesting series of blogposts on AA’s Twelve Steps, this time with a Catholic perspective. Adrienne, of Adrienne’s Catholic Corner has written 12 Steps for Catholics from March through June of this year. That last link in the previous sentence is a …
Pope Benedict XVI has declared that the following year, from today June 28th through June 29th, 2009 to be the Year of St. Paul . St. Paul is important, not the least of which being that he was the Apostle to the Gentiles. It was as a result of his efforts that Christianity spread around …
There is another Catholic blog that may be of interest to some readers. It was recently started by a friend of mine with the screen name of “Colorado Ben”, and his blog is Leidolfr, the Leader Wolf . It is new, only 2 posts so far, but shows some great promise in the area of …
I believe that it was yesterday’s readings in the Liturgy of the Hours that I came across this line: Psalm 55:23; Cast your care upon the LORD, who will give you support. God will never allow the righteous to stumble. One might think that this is overly comforting but a lot of nonsense as many …
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There is another new blog that might be of great interest to Sober Catholic readers. Ken J., himself a Sober Catholic reader and member of Catholics in Recovery , has started a new blog at We are not Saints…YET! . He describes it as his thoughts on alcoholism, recovery and the Catholic faith. Please support …
Leslie over at Quiet Consecration asked me about the new Catholics in Recovery social networking site. Not sure what else I can say beyond what I posted before except that it is just an extension of what I hope to accomplish on the Internet concerning providing Catholics who are recovering from some addiction a place …
This weekend, and indefinitely beyond, is the official “launch weekend” for a new Catholic social network for those of us in recovery from alcoholism or other addictions. The name of the place is “Catholics in Recovery” . As I have posted before in this blog, I had searched when I first sobered up for some …