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A misleading perception or false belief is increasingly being perpetuated that the unconscious or the intuitive is all that really matters in any spiritual endeavor, and that the conscious, rational, logical, analytical mind is the mortal enemy of spiritual awareness and soul growth.


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ST. ATHANASIUS Jesus whom I know as my Redeemer cannot be less than God.
ST. ATHANASIUS Feast of Philip & James, Apostles What was God to do in the face of the dehumanizing of mankind -...
ST. ATHANASIUS Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109 Those blessed ones of ...
ST. ANSELM Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109 O Lord our God, grant u...
ST. ANSELM Feast of Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Teacher, 397 To the good man to die is gain. The foolish fea...
ST. AMBROSE Feast of Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Teacher, 397 It is a great mystery of divine love, that not ev...
ST. AMBROSE Jesus is our mouth, through which we speak to the Father; He is our eye, through which we see the Fa...
ST. AMBROSE Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710 It was not by dialectic that it pleased God to s...
ST. AMBROSE No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
ST. AMBROSE Feast of Joseph of Nazareth O Lord our God, Who has called us to serve You, In the midst of the...
ST. ALCUIN This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection.
ST AUGUSTINE Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary Continuing a short series on prayer: T...
ST. TERESA Continuing a short series on the Bible: A man who is well-grounded in the testimonies of the Scr...
ST. JEROME Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
ST. EVERMOND Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmo...
ST. CYPRIAN Just suppose members of our churches were voted on, like the members of certain civic clubs. Suppose...
ST. CYPRIAN One of my favourite things about country music is that, at least until recently, you could always co...
ST. VINCENT Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
ST. JEROME It is not enough for us to restrain from doing evil, unless we shall also do good.
ST. JEROME It's easy when you're working together to let work things overtake your life, when all you&#...
ST. LUCIA I was really into Radiohead and Live.
ST. LUCIA I was always into things like Boyz II Men and boy bands, and then I got into Radiohead and alt-rock.
ST. LUCIA The reason I decided to become a solo artist in the first place was because I always felt that the r...
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