Posts Tagged ‘spiritual growth’
Social Skills – Don’t Let Selfishness Destroy Your Relationship (Danger!)
Cultivating and nurturing good Christian friendship is an important part of Catholic spiritual growth. To be truly effective at nourishing our friendships, we need to be aware of the influences and attitudes that can damage our relationships. This is one of the social skills we need to develop in all of our relationships. Selfishness is…
Read MoreDon’t Mistaken Social Justice for Charity
Christian friendship is incredibly important to our spiritual growth. Christ calls us to charity – a grace-filled, self-sacrificing love that fills the hearts of others with the love of God. Our Catholic school has taken up the cause of helping our local food pantry by providing meals for people in transitional housing. The food pantry…
Read MoreCatholic Prayer is a Personal Relationship with Jesus
Do Catholics believe in a “personal relationship with God? It may surprise you to learn that the answer is yes. However, what we mean by this term is quite different from what other Christians may mean. For Catholics, having a personal relationship with God means to enter into the Mystery of Divine Intimacy. But properly…
Read MoreFour Ways to Build Your Inner Sanctuary
First Key to Spiritual Growth: Taking Control of Your Life through the Virtue of Prudence Are You Overwhelmed by the World? When I talk to people about the obstacles they face in growing in their Catholic spirituality, one response that I get quite consistently is the problem of being distracted by the world. The world…
Read MoreAn Introduction to Human Virtues
The main point of Catholic spiritual growth is not what we do. Spiritual growth is dependent rather on who we become and what kind of relationships we form with God and with our neighbor. That’s why virtue is so important. The human virtues and the divine virtues both make goodness part of who we are.…
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 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…
Read MoreThe Well-Ordered Life – Making the Tough Choices
Living a well-ordered life with prudence (virtue) is the first step of Catholic spiritual growth. Unless we have the time, energy and attention to give to our relationship with Jesus, we cannot expect that relationship to grow. We’ve seen how we can reclaim some of the time in our day through planned responses to the…
Read MoreNurturing Christian Friendship with the Gift of Time
A good Christian friendship is a gift from God. But like all areas of Catholic spiritual growth, keeping a Christian friendship strong requires some conscious, deliberate effort. In any relationship you want to nurture, the best thing you can do is to give the Gift of Time. Catholic author and speaker Matthew Kelly calls this…
Read MoreLiving Catholic Spirituality in Sacrocanctum Concilium from Vatican II
Most people don’t turn to the documents of ecumenical councils for advice on how to live Catholic spirituality. So it may surprise you that we’re turning to a document like Sacrocanctum Concilium to talk about our prayer life. Sacrosanctum Concilium is the Constitution on Sacred Liturgy from the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council. This document if…
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