Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Lisieux, Purgatory, St. Therese, St. Therese of Lisieux, Therese on October 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The following originally appeared at
http://www.franciscan-sfo.org/ap/litfwrpu.htm .
“God’s Mercy is Greater!”
THE TEACHING OF ST. THERESE OF LISIEUX
ON PURGATORY
by Father Dr. Hubert van Dijk, ORC¹
Doctor of the Church for the third millennium
St. Therese of Lisieux, who was declared [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged beautiful hands of a priest, Year for Priests on June 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
We need them in life’s early morning,
We need them again at its close;
We feel their warm clasp of true friendship,
We seek it while tasting life’s woes.
When we come to this world we are sinful,
The greatest as well as the least.
And the hands that make us pure as angels
Are the beautiful hands of a priest.
At the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Holy Spirit, Lord of Light,
From the clear celestial height.
Thy pure beaming radiance give.
Come, thou Father of the poor,
Come, with treasures which endure;
Come, thou Light of all that live!
Thou, of all consolers best,
Thou, the soul’s delightful guest,
Dost refreshing peace bestow.
Thou in toil art comfort sweet;
Pleasant coolness in the heat;
Solace in the midst of woe.
Light immortal, Light [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged abortion, culture of death, euthanasia, the obsolete man, the twilight zone on December 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Tonight I saw an incredible episode of the Twilight Zone called “The Obsolete Man.” This is where we are headed if our secularist, atheistic culture of death has its way. The world has already declared the unborn, the terminally ill, and the disabled obsolete and have sentenced them to death through abortion and euthanasia. Who [...]
