There’s a saying in the creative world that the artist is his own worst critic. Many people, when seeing the results of their efforts, focus on the flaws. A painter only sees a shade of color that is slightly off. An actor remembers that one line that didn’t quite deliver the emotional impact he wanted. […]
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I recently completed reading Saint Dominic and the Rosary by Catherine Beebe. Saint Dominic’s life was a saintly one in every sense of the word. He practiced the saintly virtues of humility and patience throughout his life. We should also practice these virtues during Advent as we prepare to celebrate Jesus’ birth and reflect on
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Did you know that the second part of the Hail Mary wasn’t introduced until the 14th century? Did you know that one of the most popular Rosary shrines was created by a former satanist who converted? Did you know that an image of Mary handing the Rosary to Saint Dominic miraculously appeared in a cave
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Are you a person who: reads the Bible? Are you spending time reading Scripture every day? Are you living with the mindset, “No Bible, no breakfast; no Bible, no bed?” surrenders to the Holy Spirit? Do you make a commitment to say a daily prayer of submission to the Holy Spirit? takes responsibility for your life
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Pope Pius XII is often regarded as “Hitler’s pope” because of his silence on the autocracies committed by the Nazis in WWII, particularly the Holocaust. However, the book Church of Spies presents a different side of the story where the Vatican’s silence was not born out of indifference or antisemitism, but one of strategy. In
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There is a saying that to truly understand a city you have to have lived in it for twenty years or two weeks. The two weeks part of that saying means that someone with a fresh set of eyes sees aspects of a city that locals have overlooked or just grown used to. I think the same idea
This year my New Year’s resolution was to read the Catechism of the Catholic Church. I’m happy to report that I finished part one which explains Church doctrine by walking through the Creed. It looks like reading the Catechism is going to be a two year project given that it’s already June and I’ve only finished the first
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I recently finished reading The Secret of the Rosary by Saint Louis de Montfort. In short, I think this is a terrific book that anyone who regularly prays the rosary should read and share with others. First, who was Saint Louis de Montfort? The wikipedia summary is: Saint Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort (31 January 1673 –
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Have you ever said to yourself that one day you would read the entire Bible? And yet, the Bible never seems to make it to the top of your reading list. After all, you have so many other books, magazines, blogs, websites, and newspapers to get through like RosaryMeds (hint, hint). So who has time
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I just completed reading C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters. The book is divided into several letters from a senior devil, Screwtape, to a junior devil, Wormwood, who is working on bringing a man’s soul under the influence of Satan. Each letter investigates a tactic that Satan’s minions use in order to move us away from
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