Tag: spirituality
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Prayer is Like a Combustion Engine
Good Prayer? Bad Prayer? Sometimes it seems like its outside of my control. The Average Catholic must have a prayer life. A life of prayer keeps us connected to God; the God of the living not of the dead. Prayer, in the long term, fills us with the fruits of the Holy Spirit such as…
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Money is the Root of All Evil … that’s Inconvenient.
I am determined to help develop a lay spirituality for wealth. Unfortunately, there is a bible passage that cannot be ignored. That is “Money is the root of all evil.” It is a common phrase when talking about money and spirituality. The result is an understanding that material possessions are more often than not a…
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Seeing Profit as Gratitude
The life blood of capitalism is to make a profit. The familiar equation of revenue minus cost equals profit is burned into every entrepreneur. How can we minimize costs and maximize revenue? Profit is the driving force between most if not all capitalistic activity. The big question is how much money can we make off…
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What is Good Capitalism?
This is the first of many to come articles that spins capitalistic economics into a spiritual interpretation. The Catholic Church has abstain from endorsing a singular economic institution as being the best. I don’t believe the Catholic Church should endorse a singular economic system. Via Negativa is the Catholic Church’s preferred method of arriving at…
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Authority is a Pretty Big Deal
I have heard so many times, “Why does the Roman Catholic Church have so many rules?” But the quantity of rules is not an argument to avoid conversion. Just saying that the Church has a lot of rules is not an argument. At best it is a complaint, and at worse it is a whine.…
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