Author Archives: John McKenna

Hatred and the Gospel

Posted on March 15, 2019 by John McKenna

http://ronrolheiser.comThere is a popular theme within Christian apologetics that goes something like this: Christianity is the most hated of all religions and that is a certain proof of its truth. The logic works this way: If we are so unfairly … Continue reading →

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Ways to get more out of Lent

Posted on March 8, 2019 by John McKenna

1. Get up earlier than anyone else in your house and spend your first 15 minutes of the day thanking God for the gift of life and offering your day to Him. 2. Get to daily Mass. 3. If you can’t do … Continue reading →

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Healing – A Theory

Posted on February 15, 2019 by John McKenna

All of us live with some wounds, bad habits, addictions, and temperamental flaws that are so deeply engrained and long-standing that it seems like they are part of our genetic make-up. And so we tend to give into a certain … Continue reading →

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Servant of God Romano Guardini

Posted on February 9, 2019 by John McKenna

Servant of God Romano Guardini (1885-1968), Italian born German Catholic priest, author, and academic, authored The Lord, a spiritual classic. He is considered one of the most important figures in Catholic intellectual life in the 20th century. Father Guardini was born … Continue reading →

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Saint Bede the Venerable

Posted on February 1, 2019 by John McKenna

Feast: 25 May  Bede lived from his seventh year in a monastry in Northumbria under the charge of the Benedict Biscop. In his Ecclesiastical History of the English Peoples, Bede tells us that he had spent entire life in this … Continue reading →

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Posted on January 25, 2019 by John McKenna

Stretch Out Your Hand Night is coming on, 0 Jesus hidden within the Host; my hands are empty of virtues, and I need your merits and your cross to fill them. But where shall I find these graces? Where shall … Continue reading →

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Living As Beggars for Heaven

Posted on January 18, 2019 by John McKenna

Let it be the common goal of all to neither quit once you’ve begun, nor to faint in times of trouble, nor to say, “We have lived in asceticism long enough.” Rather, let us increase our zeal as though every … Continue reading →

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