8 For my brethren and companions' sakes : I will wish thee prosperity. 9 Yea, because of the house of the Lord our God : I will seek to do thee good. Psalm 123. Ad te levavi oculos meos Unto thee lift ...
Protestants deny that good works can be meritorious (i.e., rewarded by God), but St. Augustine taught that our merit was merely God “crowning his own gifts.” That’s what the Catholic Church teaches.
Then, to awaken today to the news about thousands of Hezbollah’s heir pagers exploding simultaneously, disabling their communications system, damaging people who chose a path of evil, a path sworn to ...