practices – MaddogPoetry

Affect

Silence reforms quiet echoes with resonance Mirrors reflect image and likeness with candidness Listening replies hear what God hears with reverence Prisms refract colors revealed with truthfulness Beauty restores real communion with elegance

Effect

Reason impounds Surpass will With certainty Practices impact Both-and well with civility Heart implies contented with adversity Spirits improve Calm submits with gentility Truth implores Here and now with eternity

Apostolic Spirit

“The apostolic spirit, exercises promote it, prayers receive it, and practices conserve it.”[1] Serious study and meditation promote it, but “self” menace it. Selfishness withers, self-seeking desiccates, self-satisfaction parches, self-interest shrinks. Sincere charity and heartfelt zeal render us indifferent and detached. “The world is a fiery and seething furnace and blessed are those souls thatContinue reading “Apostolic Spirit”