The Three Wisdoms

St. Anthony on Patience

February 27 2016 , Written by Joachim Arnold

Patience is one of the fruits of the Holy Spirit in us. Practically, we are required to be patient in many ways: for there are some things, trials and crosses, which come to us from God; others, temptations and enticements, that come to us from our old...

Poverty and Love of Self

February 25 2016 , Written by Joachim Arnold

“To practice poverty one must have it in their heart” St. John Bosco If the Lord proclaims poverty as the first of the Beatitudes, it is in reason of charity, for it is by charity that it has the first pace. Yes, poverty is the first outburst of charity...

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Jesus and the Paraclete

February 23 2016 , Written by Joachim Arnold

Jesus is the Savior for us, it is He who makes us pass out of the state of a sinner to the one of a child of God. But it remains for us to pass from the state of one redeemed to the one of the elect, of the friend. And if Jesus sends the Paraclete to...

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Fr. Marie Dominique Philippe on Mercy

February 23 2016 , Written by Joachim Arnold

Ce livre n'est disponible que sur commande. Vous pouvez le commander à l'association des amis du p. MD PHILIPPE : amisdupmdphilippe@orange.fr Les auteurs : Frère Benoît-Emmanuel Peltereau-Villen...

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Published from Overblog

February 22 2016 , Written by Joachim Arnold

He blew harmonica and he was pretty good with that, but he wanted to play guitar. -Son House on Robert Johnson In November, it's hard to know a cherry tree is a cherry tree. If it has any leaves ... He blew harmonica and he was pretty good with that,...

The Infidelity of the Future

February 22 2016 , Written by Joachim Arnold

I know that all times are perilous, and that in every time serious and anxious minds, alive to the honour of God and the needs of man, are apt to consider no times so perilous as their own. At all times the enemy of souls assaults with fury the Church...

Seeing with the Heart

February 20 2016 , Written by Joachim Arnold

For the heart to see it must be broken open. Michael D. O'Brien

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February 20 2016 , Written by Joachim Arnold

Part I of Sergei Miroshnichenko's trilogy of Solzhenitsyn films - Жить не по лжи. {Russian audio with English subtitles.}

Chesterton

February 20 2016 , Written by Joachim Arnold

“The men of the East may spell the stars, And times and triumphs mark, But the men signed of the cross of Christ Go gaily in the dark.” ― G.K. Chesterton, The Ballad of the White Horse

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Solzhenitsyn on Literature and National Identity

February 20 2016 , Written by Joachim Arnold

Literature transmits condensed and irrefutable human experience in still another priceless way: from generation to generation. It thus becomes the living memory of a nation. What has faded into history it thus keeps warm and preserves in a form that defies...