I am continuing with my 5 minute daily podcasts to help your preparation for the upcoming feast.
And so, here is ADVENTCAzT 13, for Friday the 2nd week of Advent.
I am continuing with my 5 minute daily podcasts to help your preparation for the upcoming feast.
And so, here is ADVENTCAzT 13, for Friday the 2nd week of Advent.
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“This blog is rather like a fusion of the Baroque ‘salon’ with its well-tuned harpsichord around which polite society gathered for entertainment and edification and, on the other hand, a Wild West “saloon” with its out-of-tune piano and swinging doors, where everyone has a gun and something to say. Nevertheless, we try to point our discussions back to what it is to be Catholic in this increasingly difficult age, to love God, and how to get to heaven.” - Fr. Z


St Augustine had a similar thought in ‘The City of God’ concerning hoe God ‘afflicts’ those He would correct and, therefore help. The nuance of the affliction being a sort of brake for the headlong rush into Hell is helpful.