Category: Restoration Reader

Humble Yourself

Discontentment is rampant in modern society. Even the most devout amongst us fight against this expression of pride, battling the gnawing thought that we deserve better. It is, of course, a lie. In Right...

Good and Evil

We often think of how blessed we are to have the modern conveniences that we enjoy every day: electricity brings light at the flip of a switch, washing machines and dishwashers nearly eliminate what...

Unwanted Items, Necessary Info

Continuing on our Lenten journey, Finer Femininity has a wonderful excerpt from Maria Von Trapp’s “Around the Year With the Trapp Family” in a post entitled Laetare Sunday to Palm Sunday – Maria Von...

Proper Training Leads to Admiration

The responsibility of Catholic parents cannot be overstated. All too often, we allow things to become unnecessarily obscured by the minutiae of daily life; things which, when isolated, are actually quite simple and clear....

Evil and Sorrow

Last week brought yet another atrocity to hallowed ground at the hands of the Vatican II antichurch. Novus Ordo Watch offers the story in Profanation in Rome: Anglican Liturgy celebrated in St. Peter’s Basilica,...

Hopelessness, Suffering, Prayer

The accelerating and unrelenting parade of gadgets and technology with which the world is obsessed are most assuredly the biggest distraction mankind has ever seen. As the excerpt presented in Science and Hopelessness on...

H is for Home

Distributivism, Distributism, Agrarianism, Socialism, Capitalism: do you ever wish there was a simpler way to break all the “isms” down into a more comprehensible format than trying to wade through that daunting article filled...

Magnanimity

Lent is the perfect time to root out our hidden vices. Do You Have the Vice of Ambition? from Those Catholic Men discusses the excess of magnanimity as expounded by St. Thomas Aquinas. “…an...

“Why are Your Robes Red?”

The First Sunday of Lent from Catholic Harbor of Faith and Morals provides several resources of meditation on the Gospel of the first of the Sundays in Lent as we launch into the first...

Dust and Ashes

Ash Wednesday is upon us, bringing with it the Lenten season. Catholic Harbor of Faith and Morals shares an excellent dissertation, Ash Wednesday, by Rev. James Luke Meagher, expounding upon the traditional significance and...