by Totus Tuus Online | Nov 1, 2018 | Saints
Singleness of purpose. So might someone paraphrase the early Jesuit spirit. Everything was put at the disposal of the Jesuit’s singular purpose as laid out in the Spiritual Exercises’ First Principle and Foundation: “to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord, and...
by Totus Tuus Online | Oct 20, 2018 | Uncategorized
In many of her apparitions, Our Blessed Mother has spoken of and warned us about future events that can come to pass if we don’t turn back to God. The apparitions of Our Lady to a nun, Mother Mariana de Jesus Torres, in Quito, Ecuador in the years between 1594 and...
by Totus Tuus Online | Aug 20, 2018 | Uncategorized
In the light of recent developments in Ireland the Church finds herself in a different place. We must go back to basics. The purpose of the Church is to continue the work of Christ. This is what the Church has done, or tried to do- however badly, for over 2000 years....
by Totus Tuus Online | Aug 20, 2018 | Sacraments
The German Protestant pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who died in Auschwitz in 1945, wrote a lot about what he called “cheap grace”. He was fiercely opposed to it. “Cheap grace,” he wrote, “is the deadly enemy of our Church. The sacraments,...
by Totus Tuus Online | Aug 20, 2018 | Uncategorized
Of all the religions of the world, none insists on the dignity of the human person more than Christianity. With our Jewish brothers and sisters, we hold that we bear the imago Dei, the image of our creator. If that claim wasn’t extraordinary enough, Christianity takes...
