Clothed in Virtue

  “A Meditation on Detachment" written by St. Thomas More while imprisoned in the Tower of London, 1534. Give me Thy Grace, Good Lord, To set all the world at nought; To set my mind fast upon Thee, And not to hang upon the blast of men's mouths; To be content to be solitary, Not to long for worldly company; Little by little utterly to cast off the world, And rid my mind of all the business thereof; Not to long to hear of any worldly things, But that the hearing of worldly fantasies may be to me unpleasant; Gladly to be thinking of God, Piteously to call for His help; To lean unto to the comfort of God, Busily to labor to love Him; To know my own vileness and wretchedness, To humble and meeken myself under the mighty Hand of God; To bewail my sins passed; For the purging of them, patiently to suffer adversity; Gladly to bear my purgatory here; To be joyful of tribulations; To walk the narrow way that leads to life, To bear the cross with Christ; To have the last thing in rememb...

March 1st, 2020 Lent is a time to prepare for the holiest feast of the Church: Easter. Don't waste this time of preparation.  Don't waste the graces that God wants to give you during this time.   The Tract of today's Mass is about God's protection.  He wants to be there for us.  He will be there for us if we want Him to be. When we are in a state of grace, God dwells in our souls.  It should give us more courage to stand up for our faith and to profess it publicly, and to not be ashamed of the Truth that we have. 1. Why are we on this earth?  What is our purpose? "Be perfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect" -- we are not called to be mediocre.  We are called to do the will of God every single day, not just sometimes.  "What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul?" Our soul is the most important thing we possess.  Too often we choose earthly things over our more important souls.  We have the promise of salv...