by Timothy Flanders | Nov 2, 2020 | Authors: Nathaniel Richards, Spiritual
By Nathaniel Richards Many of us go about our lives in a state of constant motion. We’re always on the go doing errands or the like, thinking that whatever we’re doing is rather important. However, most of this ongoing hustle and bustle to meet our material...
by Timothy Flanders | Oct 31, 2020 | Authors: Nathaniel Richards, Spiritual
By Nathaniel Richards At the beginning I said there were Personalities in God. I will go further now. There are no real personalities anywhere else. Until you have given up your self to Him you will not have a real self. Sameness is to be found most among the most...
by Timothy Flanders | Oct 15, 2020 | Authors: Nathaniel Richards, Spiritual
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 By Nathaniel Richards I am not an expert nor am I a spiritual master. However, I hope to be found a disciple of Jesus Christ despite my many personal failings and grievous sins. It is because I have fallen many times and must be humble in my...
by Timothy Flanders | Oct 1, 2020 | Authors: Nathaniel Richards, Spiritual
Part 1 Part 2 By Nathaniel Richards Notes from The Didache There is a short document from the first century which was a liturgical manual of sorts called The Didache, or The Teaching of the Twelve (Apostles, that is). I refer to it because I believe it is a handy...
by Timothy Flanders | Sep 21, 2020 | Authors: Nathaniel Richards, Spiritual
Editor’s note: for most Traditional Catholics, this week marks the September Embertide, which is a week which includes fasting and penance on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. Read more about this custom here. By Nathaniel Richards Three Words to Keep in Mind If we are...
by Timothy Flanders | Sep 14, 2020 | Authors: Nathaniel Richards, Spiritual
By Nathaniel Richards For you have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin (Heb. xii. 4) While Satan—the Enemy of our soul—is not God and cannot be everywhere at once, he never sleeps or takes a vacation. At all hours, somewhere in the world he...
by Timothy Flanders | Aug 21, 2020 | Authors: Nathaniel Richards, Spiritual
By Nathaniel Richards God resisteth the proud, writes St. Peter, but to the humble he giveth grace (I Pt.v. 5). Our Blessed Lord, when the fullness of time had come, did not deign to become Incarnate in the womb of a great earthly Queen or Empress who had many...
by Timothy Flanders | Jul 21, 2020 | Authors: Nathaniel Richards, Current crisis
By Nathaniel Richards Satan and his minions are working overtime right now. As I type these words, Marxist-fueled forces are doing their best to assault the reputation of Catholic saints in the United States of America by erasing their memory from the culture by...
by Timothy Flanders | Jun 18, 2020 | Authors: Nathaniel Richards, Current crisis, Spiritual
By Nathaniel Richards At this very moment, you and I are in a battle waged for eternal souls. My soul. Your soul. We creatures are either for the Lord Jesus Christ and perpetual union with Him in the Divine Life of the Holy Trinity or we’re not. There is no middle...
by Timothy Flanders | Dec 25, 2019 | Authors: Nathaniel Richards, Christmas
By Nathaniel Richards There has fallen on earth for a token A god too great for the sky. He has burst out of all things and broken The bounds of eternity: Into time and the terminal land He has strayed like a thief or a lover, For the wine of the world brims over, Its...
by Timothy Flanders | Dec 4, 2019 | Advent, Authors: Nathaniel Richards
By Nathaniel Richards Perhaps it is our spiritual default at times to see Advent as a sort of Christmas Day countdown. Of course, Advent is a holy season dedicated to prayer, penance, and preparation of one’s heart for the coming of the Lord Jesus. But we Catholics...
