by Dr. Jared Staudt | Jun 28, 2023 | Feast Days, Our Team Picks
Acedia is a spiritual sloth that holds us back from recognizing the Lord’s presence and embracing it. Instead, it leads us to look elsewhere, giving in to distraction and the fulfillment of our desires. By pushing off spiritual goods, we begin to see them as distant...
by Dr. Jared Staudt | Jun 21, 2023 | Feast Days, Our Team Picks
Peter and Paul were very different men. Peter was married, a fisherman by trade, with no advanced studies beyond the synagogue school, who spent three years with Jesus and became head of the apostles. Paul, on the other hand, was a Roman citizen, who presumably...
by Dr. Jared Staudt | Jun 14, 2023 | Fatherhood, Feast Days, Our Team Picks
Jesus worked. Jesus suffered. Jesus loved. The Son of God became man and took on our humanity completely, though without sin. Why would he do such a thing? God could simply have saved us from his throne in heaven, but he wanted to associate himself with us as much as...
by Dr. Jared Staudt | Jun 14, 2023 | Fatherhood, Our Team Picks
Patris Corde – with a Father’s heart. This is the name of a recent letter that Pope Francis wrote about St. Joseph. The foster father of Jesus models fatherhood for us in such a powerful way: his absolute trust and courage that led him to abandon...
by Dr. Jared Staudt | Jun 8, 2023 | Feast Days
God became man so that we might enter into the life of God. We do not approach God from the outside, as Jesus draws us into his own relationship with the Father. He came to make the Father known and to enable us to become his sons. In giving his flesh for the life of...
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