Saint Ignatius of Loyola in his consideration/meditation Principle and Foundation, after exhorting us to praise God as our first duty and obligation, calls us then to REVERENCE GOD. There is a close relationship to praising God and reverencing God. Actually, we will perceive through our reflections how one leads to and supports the other. Beg for the grace to both praise and reverence God in your life.

DEFINITION.  Off the bat, let us offer a classical definition for Reverence. This definition is taken from the spiritual giant who died in the year 2000, the holy and talented Jesuit priest, Father … Read more

Of all of the expressions of prayer, the most sublime and exalted is that of PRAISE. Saint Ignatius in the Spiritual Exercises, Principle and Foundation (#23) starts out attesting to the fact that Man is created to praise God. Very interesting, before anything else, man is first and foremost created by God so that he might praise God. No doubt, we must reverence God, serve God, submit to God, obey God, listen to God, and multiple other actions we must carry out in our relationship to God, but above all our actions and tributes to God, PRAISE is the summit … Read more

“Man of God”,  “Man for others”,  “Alter-Christus”,  “Jesus Christ on earth”, “The Victim who offers the VICTIM” (Ven. Archbishop Fulton Sheen), “Ambassador of Christ” (Saint Paul), these are just some of the definitions for the person of the priest. In these tempestuous, revolutionary, tumultuous and critical times, it is indispensable that we do all we can to bolster the Church by supporting priests to the very maximum of our capacity. True, priests have failed and scandalized others; still, there are many hard-working, humble, prayerful, zealous, fervent, and holy priests. We should do all we can to support priests … Read more

One of the greatest spiritual literary masterpieces ever penned on the topic of love is from Saint Paul in his 13^th Chapter to the Corinthians. At weddings, this is often one of the favorite second Readings in the context of the Nuptial Mass. If the couple, as well as all of us, would seriously read, meditate, and strive to understand the true import and meaning of these few verses, without a doubt the understanding that we have of Love would be radically transformed. And of course, as a consequence, the way we would strive to live out this most … Read more

 A woman talking to the Lord in prayer, begged the Lord for a very special virtue that she sorely needed, and this was the content of her concise but almost desperate prayer: “Lord I beg you, Lord I truly beg you, give me patience and right now!!!” I think we can all identify with the heartfelt prayer of this woman begging for a virtue that we all need on a daily basis, probably even on an hourly basis. So important is this virtue that Jesus said: “By your patience you will save your souls.” (Lk 21:19) All of … Read more