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Let's now look at how work preserves our lives and satisfies our material and spiritual needs. We begin by considering how our rational nature calls us to work.

In Working Your Way into Heaven, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski reminds us that we come into this world basically unprepared. While our parents or guardians may teach us to walk and talk, it'...

This 16th Sunday after Pentecost brings a final round of thoughts about how love inspires universal detachment. Our instructor remains our old friend, Father Joseph Schryvers.

Right away, Father refers to "generous souls." Are we generous? If so...well, he lays out what should follow. But we must be generous if we are to understand and learn what Father is teaching us h...

We return to Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski's Working Your Way into Heaven to understand how our work is a need of human nature. First we see how work isn't something we must do simply in order to gain the necessities of living, like food, clothing, and shelter. Yes, we do sustain our material existence by our work. But there's more to our work than just ear...

 Last time we concluded our look at how Our Lord and His Apostles connected and collaborated through work with this:

On this 15th Sunday after Pentecost, we continue our thoughts from last Sunday about how love inspires universal detachment. We turn again to the wise words of Father Schryvers.

Our focus today is on mortification. Right away we learn that these need not be "great." Rather, we'll find a whole palette of opportunities to mortify ourselves. Even those of us who actively p...