Collaboration, promotion, and connection with over 100 independent professionals — This new server is truly a special place! Indeed, it is a revolutionary next step in the age of digital evangelization. Never before have so many Catholic creators connected, collaborated, or joined together. Though we have just started, we already have over 100 members and are growing by the day…

Work can be prayer — On December 10th, 1941, Thomas Merton entered the Abbey of Gethsemani as a novice. A few days later, after graduating college last December, I entered the same monastery as a worker. What sparked this change of explosive direction in my future? Why did I forsake my years of education? Well…

St. Theophilus of the second-century exclaims: “(consuming the Body of Christ) makes man divine, by inebriating him, as it were, with divinity.” — How much time has passed since my Baptism, my second birth? O that it feels like an eternity! “Pray without ceasing,” St. Paul says. And I realize now that I can no longer cease for a moment on my journey to perfect sanctification. …

A guide for meditating on the sorrows of the Blessed Mother — Legend says that Mary was assumed into the heavens not too long after Jesus’ left the earth because of her sorrow in his absence. Jesus’ greatest sorrow was said to be watching his mother cry for him. Meditating on the sorrows of Mary not only brings us closer to Mary…

“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone — we find it with another.” — Firstly, it is important to establish that Fr. Louis (Thomas Merton) truly understood what Christian mysticism was. Contemplative prayer, according to Merton, is prayer “centered entirely on the presence of God.” Saying again, elsewhere, “Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone…

Errors examined and condemned in Pope John XXII’s edict “In agro dominico,” Mar. 27, 1329 — Taken from page 195 of Denzinger’s The Sources of Catholic Dogma. Eckhart himself was never condemned as a heretic; as he was on his way to defend himself to the Church, he died. However, these beliefs are to be taken with caution. We condemn and expressly disapprove the first fifteen…

Provided by Fr. Michael Casagram, OSCO — I and two monks discuss the virtues in this video: The tradition of the Church lists twelve principal virtues: ‘charity, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, generosity, gentleness, faithfulness, modesty, self-control, chastity” (Galatians 5:22–23; CCC 1832). There were formally enumerated differently by Pope Gregory I (the Great) in the 6th…

On the foolish attack of the Avars and godless Persians against this city, protected by God, and of their shameful retreat which the divine love brought about for mankind by the intervention of the Mother of God Visit Catholicism for the Modern World for more great articles: https://www.catholicismforthemodernworld.com/articles

An excerpt from ‘Treatise Concerning The Christian Priesthood’, Book 6 — Accordingly the time is now come that I should utter to thee the only thing which I have left unspoken. Perhaps it may seem to many to be incredible, but even so I shall not be ashamed to bring it before the world, for though what is said is proof…