What Keeps You Away From the Fire of God’s Love?
http://www.myinnerabbey.com – Tell me your greatest challenge to growing in your faith and I’ll create a video teaching you how to overcome it! This Catholic spirituality “spot check” challenges you to identify what is keeping you from growing in your Catholic faith. Spot checks are like miniature Catholic spiritual retreats online, helping you overcome…
Read MoreThe Virtue of Prudence – No Margin Ned Recap
The virtue of prudence is the virtue of knowing what is good and making a plan to attain it. This last video in the “No Margin Ned” series reviews the main principles for destroying margin in each area of your life. This is a great review of the importance of the virtue of prudence. [leadplayer_vid…
Read MoreChristian Spirituality – Rote Prayer vs. Spontaneous Prayer
One of the most common questions I get about Christian spirituality is, “Why do Catholics use such rote prayers while non-Catholic Christians (and charismatic Catholics) seem so much more comfortable praying spontaneously?” It’s a good question and the answer is fairly complex. You see, there is a proper role for both rote (pre-written) and spontaneous…
Read MoreCatholic 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…
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