A Word to Enkindle: Psychology and Care of the Soul
I am not a psychologist in the modern technical sense of the term. I have no training in matters dealing with the brain or nervous system, and I possess only a rudimentary knowledge of human biochemistry. But I do love uncovering the etymologies of words, and therefore I can say that I aim to be a psychologist in the original sense of the Greek word psyche: the animating principle of the whole person, which we translate as “soul.” Saint Gregory the Great emphatically declares, in his influential “Pastoral Rule,” that the proper nurturing, challenging, and encouraging of souls is the great duty of priests, since “the care of souls is the art of arts.”
A Word to Enkindle: The way of nature
Children are increasingly growing up among adults in politics, entertainment and academia who encourage them, even well before puberty, to adopt sexual profiles that conflict with Church teaching, such as transgenderism. This is confusing for those who trust the Biblical understanding of God’s design for human sexuality, according to which the only normative sexual relationship is the one between a husband and a wife who lovingly unite their complementary identities for lasting friendship, collaboration and new life.
A Word to Enkindle: True Enlightenment about the End
by Fr. Thomas for the Texas Catholic
A Word to Enkindle: Can the Church Save Marriage?
Marriage is not a private achievement but an adventure unfolding under God.
A Word to Enkindle: Grace at Work in Infant Baptism
The Church regularly commemorates the baptism of Jesus in the heart of the Christmas season, just three weeks after his birth.