Spirituality

By Fr. Pachomius Okojie, OSB Continued From LAST WEEK “With a sudden inspiration began to shout to the birds with all his . The swallows flocked...

Introduction Often when people throw fierce shades or target arrows of criticisms on Catholicism and the constituents of her faith – her doctrines and practices – they vantage their attacks...

Doctrinal Affirmation After having consulted with his brother bishops within the Episcopal communion, Pope Pius IX, in 1854, issued a bull – Ineffa- bilis Deus¬ – wherein he solemnly declared...

Devotion to the Holy Eucharist is at the very heart of Catholic life. In his first message to the Church after his election, Pope Benedict XVI said that the Eucharist...

God handpicks His Mother One of the prominent habits of we Catholics for which we are unapologetic is the love and devotion we ascribe to the Mother of our Saviour...

It is without gainsaying that there are so many devotions to the Blessed Virgin Mary as it is evident in the many widely observed Marian devotions in the Church today....

What is the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary? The triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary consists of the spiritual re-conquest of the entire world by the Immaculate...

Continued from LAST WEEK Having made the affections, you should proceed to resolutions. Promise Our Lord that you will never more displease Him by mortal or even deliberate venial sin....

The devotion to the Passion (sufferings) of Our Lord and Saviour is, of all forms of Catholic devotions, the most ancient, the most venerable and the most universal. Jesus Himself...

And Yahweh passed by. There was first a windstorm which rent the mountains and broke the rocks into pieces before Yahweh, but Yahweh was not in the wind. After the...