Ordering Your Life
Why Are You Too Busy to Pray? (it’s not because you don’t care)
Are you a “stuck” Catholic? Spiritual growth is a pipe dream, right? Or at least a future goal rather than a current focus. You do your Catholic “duty” but you’re not deepening your relationship with God. Why not? Not due to lack of desire! You really want to grow in your faith. If you didn’t…
Read MoreThe Virtue of Prudence: What Kind of Christian Are You?
Without the virtue of prudence, life quickly gets out of control. When we’re not focused on ordering our lives, disorder and imbalance creep in. For Christians, this can spell trouble in our life of faith. Our lives may superficially look like Christian lives, but without prudence, there will always be something missing. Being able to…
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 More3 Ways To Take Care of Your Mental Health
When people complain that they don’t have time to pray, what they really mean is that they can’t get beyond the stress in their lives. They are overloaded. Even when they try to pray, they struggle to clear their minds. Sometimes, the first step to establishing a habit of daily prayer is to get a…
Read MoreSilence, Solitude, and the Philosophy of Pipe Smoking
The topic of today’s video is silence, solitude, and the philosophy of pipe smoking. Everyone now acts like they have to be in a hurry all the time, but hurry is one of those things that will crush a man’s initiative, his purpose, and his zeal. We were not made with the intention that we…
Read MoreAuthor Book Reading: A God Who Questions
Grab a cup of coffee and find a seat! We have a special treat for you as author Leonard J. DeLorenzo reads the chapter, “Why do you worry about clothing?” from his book A God Who Questions. This book explores 20 questions that Jesus asks in the Gospels. Each chapter in this short but…
Read MoreThe Virtue of Prudence: Meaningful Work
Exploring how the virtue of prudence can help us live more meaningful lives has led us to examine our leisure. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the virtue of knowing what is truly good and making a plan to get it can also help us make our work more meaningful. It also shouldn’t surprise…
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 MoreAuthor Book Reading: It’s OK to Start With You
This week’s book reading is from therapist Julia Marie Hogan, LCPC. She reads from her book It’s OK to Start With You. In this book reading, Julie reads from the second chapter of her book, “Being Mean to Ourselves,” in which she talks about how to deal with out “inner critic.” This fascinting book…
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