Pilgrim's Feet

As I'm sure many of you know, the Amazon Synod closed today. I'm not going to lie, I'm scared. I'm heartbroken and am wondering how God is going to pull us through this. But, thanks to Him, I know He will. Why? Because He said so: "And I say to thee: Thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it" (Matthew 16:18). A priest once told my little sister that during dark times, when we are in the valley of the shadow of death, THIS is the time when we remember God's promises, when we find the most hope in them. Because His Word never fails, and it will NEVER return to Him empty or void (Isaiah 55:11). This is why when God makes a promise, He NEVER breaks it. While mankind might, God never has and never will. Our God is goodness itself, and though He may seem far away at the moment, and though we may wonder where He is, know first of all that it is US, not Him, that is far, and also trust me when I ...

Last Wednesday I got to go home for my university's Fall Break, and let me tell you, it was so nice to be able to be with my family for about 4 whole days! There really is no place like home when you are among the people you love the most and who love you the most. What made break even better though was that every member of my family and I (except my brother-in-law who is not Catholic and my nephew who is only a toddler) got to go to Confession before Mass yesterday! (We are Vigil people and always go on Saturday evenings! Haha!) Not only do I want to share with you a light-bulb moment for myself that I had in Confession, but also something much, much more profound that happened. I'm going to save the best for last, though, so here is what I learned from one of my home parish priests in Confession: In the Gospel this Sunday, we read about Moses and how he held up his arms in prayer while Joshua and the Israelites fought Amalek and his men in battle, and about how every time Mo...

I'm sure you know about what is happening in Rome right now with the Amazon Synod. Quite frankly, I am angry. I'm angry because the serpent is right within our Church, trying to destroy her from the inside out. WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING!!! We are the Church Militant, and it is OUR DUTY to take action in moments like these! One Sunday during the Gospel, Saint Augustine was reading a new translation of the Bible in Latin, and when he read one of the words, those attending Mass started an uproar because one of the words wasn't translated right. To calm them down, he told them it was just a translation mistake. If those in the early Church protested so much about A TRANSLATION MISTAKE, how much more should we take action against the INTENTIONAL EVIL that is seeking to "change" Church doctrine and teaching when we all know CHURCH DOCTRINE AND TEACHING CANNOT CHANGE!  NOW is the time to take action by praying the Rosary, fasting, abstaining, making sacrifices like not...

As I have mentioned on several occasions, there is a certain petition that I have been praying for for months now. This week, I have been particularly impatient about it. But once again, I was reminded of something, and on the traditional feast of Saint Therese of Lisieux nonetheless! And it was this: The more attachments we have to material things, or just temporal things in general, the more full our hands become. It is only be letting go of our attachments that our hands become empty, and if our hands our empty, then this allows us to take hold of and cling to Jesus Who will pick us up and carry us with Him to our Heavenly homeland. For, after all, the world is our ship, not our home (Saint Therese of Lisieux). Ad maiorem Dei gloriam.

Last Wednesday, a friend and I had dinner together and during the course of our conversation we ended up talking about sin and Confession. They said that when they sin, they always feel as if they haven't let God love them as they should let Him. That they've held themselves back and away from Him and His Love. And that after Confession, they thank God for another chance to let Him love them as He so desperately wants to. Well, today as I was reading "Deus Caritas Est" I read something that made me stop. And it was this: that by obeying God and "THROUGH THE LIFE OF FIDELITY TO THE ONE GOD, [MAN] COMES TO EXPERIENCE HIMSELF AS LOVED BY GOD" (9). THIS is why God wants us to follow Him because when we follow and obey Him we let Him love us, and we let Him show us His full love for us!!!! I cannot believe how incredible this is!!! Life really is about Love. And not just any love, but God Who is Love. Ad maiorem Dei gloriam. "There is something mysterio...