The Oeconomic Kingdom
This is the fourth article in the series Man and Woman – Image of the Triune God. The first article is What Is “The Real Thing” For Women? The second article is Image of One – Image of Three. The...
Author: Sister Gabriela of the Incarnation, O.C.D.
The Order of Love and the Order of Prudence
God loves each person infinitely, without ever limiting His love for every other person. We are given the grace to love with His love, but we can never love infinitely as He does. This means that we always need to...
Will the Real Neighbor Please Stand Up?
There has recently been a flurry of articles about the parable of the Good Samaritan and the situation of undocumented immigrants. In an interview on Fox News, Vice-President JD Vance spoke about the ordo amoris and said that “there’s this...
A Parable on Immigration
Several years ago, Pope Francis approved the Instruction promulgated by the Dicastery for Consecrated Life called Cor orans. This document laid out precise directions for the updating of the life of contemplative nuns. One of the most startling directions was...
Prayers Pass Through All Buffer Zones
Doctors Without Borders is a well-known organization that ministers to the sick and suffering wherever they may be found. I discovered that there is also a similar organization known as Carpenters Without Borders who were involved with the reconstruction of...
The Vow of Chastity – A Witness to the Resurrection
In the darkness of the Church on Holy Saturday night, the new fire of Easter is born. It then blossoms on the paschal candle and all the candles of the congregation are lit from it. The paschal candle will shine...
Gift and Response
It is estimated that there have been some million love songs recorded throughout various cultures and ages. Love as a subject of poetry and pondering never seems to lose its fascination. The desire for love, the search for love, finding...
Image of One – Image of Three
Second article in the series Man and Woman – Image of the Triune God In his trial before the Roman prefect, Rusticus, St. Justin Martyr was asked, “What system of teaching do you profess?” Justin said: “I have tried to...
What Is “The Real Thing” for Women?
Last year, in an email exchange, Dawn Eden Goldstein, who was writing her own articles on female deacons, encouraged me to follow my search into what a woman is. This series is a beginning of that search. Thank you for...
With a Person, the Whole is Always Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts
I have never done a DNA test and I probably never will, but I don’t need one to know that I am an ethnical hodge-podge. On one side, I am descended from Italians from the south of Italy along the...
To be poor in love is to be truly destitute
There is a saying that I often ponder: “Tell me what you love, and I will tell you who you are.” This is very close to Jesus’ statement, “Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” (Matt. 6,...
Do You Want To Be Healed?
This is the third article in the series “Spiritual Challenges.” In the first article, “Lessons From a Bowl of Jello,” I presented my opinion that one cause of the turmoil after Vatican II is that we had not let ourselves...
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