Posts by Arrowood
Catholic Spirituality: Saint Teresa of Avila and the Way to Perfection
Saint Teresa of Avila wrote her book Way of Perfection for the sisters in her order to lead them to growth in Catholic spirituality no matter where they were in their journey. Like all of the works by spiritual masters, this book is challenging for most Catholics to work through, but the payoff is amazing.…
Read MoreCatholic Spirituality and the Life of Prayer: the Sure Path to Freedom
How to Pray – What Does it Really Mean to Pray Always?
Is Saint Paul serious when he says to pray always? People who don’t think they know how to pray find Saint Paul’s exhortation to “pray always” almost unbelievable. In 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18, St. Paul tells us to pray continually and to always rejoice. OK, I get how we can rejoice always, even if I do…
Read MoreHow the Gifts of the Holy Spirit Empower Our Adventure of Faith
God has created you for love. He wants you to be his child and his friend – to have a deep, intimate, loving relationship with him. But this relationship is going to be a real relationship – one where both parties are active in each other’s life. Now we stop and ask ourselves – how…
Read MoreWhere Are All the Catholics Living Faith?
If Catholics really had a living faith they would be an unstoppable force for good in the world. But the sad fact is, most Catholics are not living as disciples of Jesus. Do you want to miss the opportunity of a lifetime? I know it sounds judgmental for me to say that most Catholics are…
Read MoreThe Virtue of Prudence – Don’t Let Them Control You!
How Responding to Life With the Virtue of Prudence Rather Than Reacting Can Save Your Time and Your SanityEntrepreneur Dean Jackson warns people against what he calls “reactive activators.” What he means by this is that we are conditioned to react to certain stimuli in our lives. In our current world, these stimuli mostly come…
Read MoreThe Well Ordered Life – Set DUMB Goals for Yourself!
The first step of Catholic spiritual growth is to grow in prudence, virtue of a well-ordered life, so we have the time and energy to focus on our relationship with God. Brendon Burchard is on of the foremost experts in creating and selling transformational information products – as he puts it “helping people get their…
Read MoreSocial Skills – See People for Who They Really Are
Is Love Blind? If we want healthy relationships, we need to practice specific social skills from friendship building. The old saying, “Love is blind” comes from literature. Geoffrey Chaucer and William Shakespeare both used the phrase for satire and comedy. But our culture embraced it as a truism meaning that love overlooks the details of…
Read MoreLiving the Theological Virtues and Embracing Your School of Love
God calls each of us to our vocation to help us grow in the theological virtues. We are called within our specific vocation to grow in our general vocation. Pope John Paul II called the family the “school of love.” He referred mainly to the fact that children learn what it means to love from…
Read MoreSpiritual Growth in Lumen Gentium from Vatican II
Lumen Gentium is the Sacred Constitution on the Church. Pope Paul VI wrote the encycilcal Ecclesiam Suam (Pathways of the Church),. In that document, he tells us that Lumen Gentium is an examination of conscience for the Church. It asks the question, “Church, what do you say of yourself?” It uses Sacred Scripture and Sacred…
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