On Confession and Forgiveness
The marvelous thing about sacramental confession is that when absolution is given by the priest as God’s representative, the offense is wiped away. We are not to dwell on it any more, but to go on afresh with our lives, knowing ourselves forgiven, restored, loved. My tendency has often been to go back and dwell […]
Effective Discipline
Discipline doesn’t work unless it’s founded on the kind of security that comes from knowing you’re loved. — Madeleine L’Engle, A Live Coal in the Sea
What Is The Ugliest, Most Awful Thing? Maybe Not What You Think!
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a […]