by Chris | Sep 18, 2024 | 12-Step Meetings, Community, Spiritual Tools
Stepping over the threshold into the rooms of recovery is one of the hardest things many of us will ever do. By God’s grace, we muster up the courage to admit our powerlessness and surrender ourselves and life to a fellowship of recovery. By living sober, we...
by Chris | Sep 11, 2024 | Prayer, Prayer & Scripture Reflections, Spiritual Tools
One of the first prayers some Catholics are taught as children is directed to their guardian angels: “Angel of God, my guardian dear, to whom God’s love commits me here. Ever this day be at my side, to light, to guard, to rule, to guide. Amen.” This was true...
by Chris | Sep 4, 2024 | Addiction, General, Help from the Saints, Saints—On Earth & in Heaven, Spiritual Tools
Read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, or Part 5 of this series on addiction and Saint Benedict’s Twelve Steps of Humility. We come to the second to last stage of humility, discretion. According to Saint Benedict, “The eleventh step of humility is that a monk speaks...
by Chris | Aug 28, 2024 | Addiction, General, Help from the Saints, Saints—On Earth & in Heaven, Spiritual Tools
Read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, or Part 4 of this series on addiction and Saint Benedict’s Twelve Steps of Humility. The fruit of the fear of God, self-denial, obedience, perseverance, and repentance is the gift of serenity, where we truly begin to live in detachment...
by Chris | Aug 21, 2024 | Addiction, General, Help from the Saints, Saints—On Earth & in Heaven, Spiritual Tools
Read Part 1, Part 2, or Part 3 of this series on addiction and Saint Benedict’s Twelve Steps of Humility. Humility, like recovery, begins with a healthy fear of God—the awareness, as Saint Benedict puts it, that we are “always seen by God in heaven” (Rule). There is...
