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Spiritual but not Religious?

From Fr. Longnecker: What’s all this “spiritual but not religious” claptrap? Saying you’re spiritual but not religious is like saying you love food, but hate cooking. Let’s take it further. You love food but hate cooking? That means you can’t be bothered to learn to cook. You can’t be bothered to study food and a [...]

Real Love Must Cost

(Part of the Church Militant Training Series. This follows from the post: Risking Spiritual Death) Pope John Paul II said, “Real love is demanding. For it was Jesus – our Jesus himself – who said: ‘You are my friends if you do what I command you’ (John 15:14). Love demands effort and a personal commitment to the [...]

Risking Spiritual Death

(Part of the Church Militant Training Series. This follows from the post: O.I.L. for Holy Spirit Fire) Military discipline and effectiveness is built on the foundation of obedience to orders. Recruits are taught to obey, immediately and without question, orders from their superiors, right from day one of boot camp. Military members who fail to obey [...]

O.I.L. for Holy Spirit Fire

(Part of the Church Militant Training Series. This follows from the post: God Strong) Recall Jesus’ parable of the ten virgins (Matt. 25:1-12), five of who were wise and five who were foolish. When the time came to meet the Bridegroom, and go in to join the festivities, the foolish ones did not have enough oil [...]

God Strong

(Part of the Church Militant Training Series. This follows from the post: One Thing Necessary) The U.S. Army ran a very effective “Army Strong” ad campaign to recruit soldiers. The key message was: “There is strong, and then there is Army Strong.” The commercial goes onto say, “It is a strength like none other. It is [...]

One Thing Necessary

(Part of the Church Militant Training Series. This follows from the post: Semper Fi) The “one thing necessary” constitutes the basis for the interior life and consists in hearing the word of God and living by it. In the story of Martha and Mary (Luke 10:38-42), we first see that, amazingly, the Second Person of the [...]

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