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Poor in Spirit

Emily G.

I share about Catholicism and the spiritual life, but also sometimes personal memoirs.

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Guard Your Senses

In the final chapter of The Art of Dying Well, St. Robert Bellarmine discusses the sins which enter through our senses. He names these sins and offers remedies.


“In the Sacrament of Extreme Unction are anointed all those parts of th...

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Resolutions: How to Actually Profit from Them

What is a resolution?

A firm purpose to avoid sin and practice virtue.

The mind perceives what is good.
The heart feels drawn to this good.
The will, aided by grace, decides on doing it.

To what end should all resolutions be...

4 months ago
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Spiritual Books I Read in 2025

Last year, for the New Year, I wrote An Entire History of my Spiritual Reading, detailing all the spiritual books I ever read (or at least, all that I could remember).

This year, I’m going to keep the tradition going by sharing the books...

5 months ago
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Another proof for God: our sense of moral obligation and the direction of our will toward moral good.

Our will is naturally ordered toward the moral good. All men, even those who doubt the existence of God, have a sense of “doing good” and “avoiding evil.”


Three distinctions of ‘good:’

  • Delectable good (of the senes; enjoyme...
5 months ago
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Man’s Happiness Cannot Consist in Any Limited Good

A proof for the existence of God, developed by St. Thomas, is that the beatitude (happiness) - a desire which is natural to man - cannot be found in any limited or restricted good, but only in God, who is known at least with a natural know...

5 months ago
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