frdavid7Apr 153 minLent Reflection day 40Day 40 Today, the fortieth day of the fast, we come to the end of Lent for this year. Sometimes people are surprised at this; we commonly...
frdavid7Apr 143 minLent Reflection day 39Day 39 There was someone in a parish I pastored long ago who was a very difficult person. She would not come to church very often, but...
frdavid7Apr 133 minLent Reflection day 38Day 38 Some of the chapters of Unseen Warfare are so good that I finish reading them and despair of saying anything about them. They say...
frdavid7Apr 123 minLent Reflection day 37Day 37 Yesterday I spoke about my own struggles in acquiring the virtue of patience. In the thirty-seventh chapter of Unseen Warfare, the...
frdavid7Apr 113 minLent reflection day 36Day 36 We’ve talked before about an order for acquiring the virtues, but in chapter thirty-six, Unseen Warfare makes an additional...
frdavid7Apr 93 minLent Reflection day 35Day 35 Some years ago a young woman came to my office who was drowning in debt. We looked at the situation. She had multiple credit cards...
frdavid7Apr 83 minLent Reflection day 34Day 34 The thirty-fourth chapter of Unseen Warfare brings us to the next stage of spiritual development. To quote: But let us suppose...
frdavid7Apr 73 minLent Reflection day 33Day 33 As Unseen Warfare has described the process of following after God so far, it has told us to act on the good we perceive in our...
frdavid7Apr 63 minLent Reflection day 32Day 32 For the last two days we’ve considered those who utterly reject the love of God and set their faces against any communion with...
frdavid7Apr 53 minLent Reflection day 31Day 31 Yesterday we spoke about the one who walks in spiritual darkness and cannot hear when the good news of God’s light-producing...
frdavid7Apr 43 minLent Reflection day 30Day 30 When couples come to me for pre-marriage counseling, I will often spend one session trying to convey to them the goodness of the...
frdavid7Apr 33 minLent Reflection day 29Day 29 Many years ago I worked as a counselor at a drug and alcohol rehab center. One of the residents described his addiction as...
frdavid7Apr 33 minLent Reflection day 28Day 28 Chapter twenty eight of Unseen Warfare tells us what to do when we are wounded in battle. This is a good way to put it – not to...
frdavid7Apr 23 minLent Reflection day 27Day 27 The title of the twenty-seventh chapter of Unseen Warfare is a great piece of advice in itself: A warrior of Christ should use all...
frdavid7Apr 13 minLent Reflection day 26Day 26 Since the twenty-sixth chapter of Unseen Warfare deals with the subject of imagination and memory, we need to understand the...
frdavid7Mar 313 minLent Reflection day 25 Day 25 In the eleventh step of St. John Climacus’ Ladder of Divine Ascent, he says this about the tongue: Talkativeness is the throne of...
frdavid7Mar 303 minLent Reflection day 24Day 24 Today Unseen Warfare continues to address the senses by taking each sense one at a time, and suggesting ways to keep ourselves in...
frdavid7Mar 293 minLent Reflection day 23Day 23 In its twenty-third chapter, Unseen Warfare again addresses the subject of the senses and their impact on our spiritual life....
frdavid7Mar 283 minLent Reflections day 22Day 22 Today’s chapter from Unseen Warfare is both wonderful and difficult to hear. To quote: I have shown you above how from sensory...
frdavid7Mar 273 minLent Reflection day 21Day 21 The twenty first chapter of Unseen Warfare addresses the subject of the senses, and how we are to have control over them, in order...