70 Gift Ideas – 2023 Christmas Gift Guide

Getting Christmas gifts can add unnecessary stress to a wonderful time of year. We have put together a Christmas Gift Guide to help not only check Christmas presents off the list, but will also support some great Catholic companies (most of these companies are Catholic, but not all of them). We have broken down the…

Before a Prayer Life

St. Teresa of Avila gives suggestions on what to do if you don’t have a prayer life or you feel like your prayer life is not advancing. In this episode, we discuss: What to do if your prayer life isn’t advancing Importance of the love for one another Detachment from all created things True Humility…

Appetites and Loves

We exist and desire to be loved and to love. St. Thomas Aquinas lists three appetites that are the basis for three loves. “And in each of these appetites, love is the principle of motion of the one tending into the end loved.” Here are a few points of discussion: What are appetites? What is…

Teenagers aren’t real

100 years ago, if you were talking about teenagers, no one would know what you were talking about. What are the ramifications of creating this new category in society and in the Church? When teenagers were revoked from the adults category, there were isolated into their own classification. Not grouped with adults meant they were…

A Book for All Men – Confessions

Confessions – Saint Augustine of Hippo translated by Anthony Esolen from Tan Publishing The Confessions is one continued and coherent prayer, a profound profession of faith, and a plea for more, ever more wisdom, ever more love. It is artistic in its whole conception, in its parts and their arrangement down to the merest sentence. It is…