Articles For Heart Mind Soul

  Personal reflection: Priests are no longer pastors/shepherds. They have indeed retreated from feeding and tending their lambs and their sheep. They are hired hands who leave their flock for the wolves to devour.  It’s a retreat from their pastoral responsibilities. It’s a treat for themselves to partake of the big city restaurants and recreations. Maybe we should bring back the custom of kissing a priest’s hands to remind them of their Holy Hands, and that they are not hired hands.

  Personal reflection: God's comfort, encouragement, humor, and inspiration   Comfort: Come be my fortress – my fort Encouragement : Embed within me courage – Christ’s courage Humor: Give me the hue of humor – the color of heavenly humor Inspiration: Intake – Ingest – Input the Holy Spirit  

 

 

  Personal reflection: Don’t keep feeding the savage emotional beasts, they can never be satiated. Don’t keep feeding the vicious vices, they can never be satisfied. Vicious vices: hatred, sloth, envy, discord, quarreling, objectifying others, lust, prudishness, heresy, doubt, disbelief, disloyalty, treachery, irreverence, fear, audacity, cowardice, stinginess, wastefulness, quarrelsomeness, selfishness, despair, presumption, pride, self-loathing, dishonesty, animosity, meanness, indifference, sloth, workaholism, disobedience, defiance, malevolence, meanness, mercilessness, anger, negligence, inconstancy, gluttony, greed, drunkenness, lust, acedia, apathy, complacency, lukewarmness, etc.   Bring emotions under Christ’s submission. God’s Spirit and God’s Truth are more powerful than emotions and vices.  

 

  Saint Blaise pray for us!