When Everything Changes…

[wp_ticker ticker_title=”Notice” effect=”slide-h” category=”704″] “Every best gift, and every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor shadow of alteration.” – James 1: 17, Douay-Rheims Sharon has been going through a season of change in her life. There have been positive changes like the…

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The Virtue of Prudence: Living Deliberately

The Virtue of Prudence: Living Deliberately

So, we’ve talked about the moral virtue of prudence. We’ve seen how this virtue can help us take control of our time and move our lives forward. This is the first step in using this virtue to fulfill your human potential. How the Virtue of Prudence Helps You Fulfill Your Human Potential Prudence is a natural virtue, associated…

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What is Risk

We begin our look at overcoming spiritual mediocrity by examining what it means to take a risk. People tend to automatically see risk as a bad thing. It’s seen as a chance of loss or peril. But there’s more to risk than meets the eye!

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The Virtue of Prudence: Making Relationship a Priority

Moral Virtue: Friends huddling

In this series on the Well-Ordered Life, we have taken a look at the challenge most Catholics face finding time to grow in their faith, where the moral virtue of prudence can help us. The reason that being too “busy” is the wrong way to look at time challenges Why we are so overwhelmed and the…

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The Well-Ordered Life – Making the Tough Choices

The 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…

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Too Busy? 4 Ways the Virtue of Prudence Can Help

The power of prudence keeps us from getting too busy

The virtue of Prudence is a powerful weapon against our chronic condition of having no time to pray. In this article, we’re going to explore specific ways that the cardinal virtue of prudence helps us conquer busyness and overload and build margin into our lives. 1. Prudence keeps us from getting too busy and overloaded by helping…

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The Virtue of Prudence: The Best Use of Your Time

The Virtue of Prudence: The Best Use of Your Time

As an educator of Catholic adults, by far the greatest frustration I face is lack of attendance at parish programs. Now, I’m not prideful enough to deny that the educational medium (yours truly) may not be attractive enough. But that’s not the reason I hear people give for not attending. Rather, most people say that…

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