Category: The Morning Offering
Step by Step, Progress is Made We can feel discouraged when we struggle to change our bad behaviors, or overcome sins that seem to follow us like bad debt. We feel overwhelmed and wonder if we’ll ever have victory. During times like these it is good to remember the words
The same old sins? This is your chance to change.
When Prayer Becomes Dry When we find ourselves struggling with prayer, and feel that it has become dry and lifeless, we are sometimes tempted to stop praying. When our prayer has become a struggle, it is good to remember that God knows our needs, and even knows what we want
In our struggle on the path to God, repentance must be the central theme.
Becoming Partakers of the Divine Nature Although our regeneration began with baptism, our repentance opens the gates to grace after grace. Repentance is the second regeneration in that through our repentance, the door to the mercy of God opens wide. In being regenerated by God’s mercy, we are justified before
Fleeting Joy If we do not see the fleetingness of the happiness of this world we will one day find its bitterness. Only in the Kingdom of God, which is within, can we find the joy that is of an everlasting nature, a joy that penetrates our very soul and
You cannot listen until you stop talking.
The Chief Sign of a Priest If a priest is not himself filled with the Holy Spirit he will be unable to share Him with others. A priest who is not humble and compassionate, and living in repentance will not be able to impart an authentic faith that is believable.