The greatest obstacle to holiness is believing it is not for you. The second obstacle is "I don't have time." Write prayer in ink; everything else in pencil.

Dan Burke identifies two great lies that prevent spiritual growth. The first: "Holiness is not for me — it's for special people." This belief keeps countless souls in the outer rooms of Teresa's castle, never venturing inward because they believe the inner chambers are reserved for others. The second lie: "I don't have time for prayer." Burke's response is the ink-vs-pencil principle: write your prayer time in ink on your schedule; write everything else in pencil. If something has to give, it should never be prayer. Burke uses the Tiffany lamp analogy: each person is a priceless work of art, unique and unrepeatable. God wants to illuminate you from within. But if you never sit before the Light, the lamp remains dark. Prayer is how the Light gets in.

Dan Burke identifies two great lies that prevent spiritual growth. The first: "Holiness is not for me — it's for special people." This belief keeps countless souls in the outer rooms of Teresa's castle, never venturing inward because they believe the inner chambers are reserved for others. The second lie: "I don't have time for prayer." Burke's response is the ink-vs-pencil principle: write your prayer time in ink on your schedule; write everything else in pencil. If something has to give, it should never be prayer. Burke uses the Tiffany lamp analogy: each person is a priceless work of art, unique and unrepeatable. God wants to illuminate you from within. But if you never sit before the Light, the lamp remains dark. Prayer is how the Light gets in.

Catechism sources (PD) teaches:

An Explanation Of The Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine For The Use of Sunday-School Teachers and Advanced Classes (Also known as Baltimore Catechism No. 4) by Rev.

(Source: baltimore_catechism.txt)

St. Thomas Aquinas teaches:

CATENA AUREA (GOLDEN CHAIN) Commentary on the Gospels by St.

(Source: catena_aurea_john.txt)

Dan Burke identifies two great lies that prevent spiritual growth. The first: "Holiness is not for me — it's for special people." This belief keeps countless souls in the outer rooms of Teresa's castle, never venturing inward because they believe the inner chambers are reserved for others. The second lie: "I don't have time for prayer." Burke's response is the ink-vs-pencil principle: write your prayer time in ink on your schedule; write everything else in pencil. If something has to give, it should never be prayer. Burke uses the Tiffany lamp analogy: each person is a priceless work of art, unique and unrepeatable. God wants to illuminate you from within. But if you never sit before the Light, the lamp remains dark. Prayer is how the Light gets in.

Catechism sources (PD) teaches:

An Explanation Of The Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine For The Use of Sunday-School Teachers and Advanced Classes (Also known as Baltimore Catechism No. 4) by Rev.

(Source: baltimore_catechism.txt)

St. Thomas Aquinas teaches:

CATENA AUREA (GOLDEN CHAIN) Commentary on the Gospels by St.

(Source: catena_aurea_john.txt)

Doctrinal Foundation

T4.G.008 (De fide (defined dogma)): God sincerely wills the salvation of all human beings. There is a universal salvific will in God which extends sufficient grace to all, including sinners and unbelievers.

  • Scripture: Who will have all men to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
  • Aquinas: God wills all men to be saved by His antecedent will, which is not simply the will, but the will in a certain respect.
  • Fathers: God wills all men to be saved; but not so as to take away their free will.

T4.S.010 (De fide (defined dogma)): Baptism is the sacrament of spiritual regeneration by which a person is incorporated into Christ and His Church, receives the remission of all sins (both original and personal), and is made a new creature through the infusion of sanctifying grace.

  • Scripture: Amen, amen I say to thee, unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Ghost, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

  • Aquinas: Baptism is a certain spiritual regeneration, whereby a man dies to the old life, and begins to lead the new life.

  • Fathers: Baptism is God's most beautiful and magnificent gift... We call it gift, grace, anointing, enlightenment, garment of immortality, bath of regeneration, seal, and most precious gift.

From the Sources

St. Thomas Aquinas (catena_aurea_john.txt):

CATENA AUREA (GOLDEN CHAIN) Commentary on the Gospels by St.

St. Thomas Aquinas (catena_aurea_john.txt):

Thomas Aquinas: Catena Aurea, John Thomas Aquinas Catena Aurea GOSPEL OF SAINT JOHN CONTENTS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 1a. In the beginning was the Word, CHRYS. While all the other Evangelists begin with the Incarnation, John, passing over the Conception, Nativity, education, and growth, speaks immediately of the Eternal Generation, saying, In the beginning was the Word.

  • nT een Py be shame tee ~

  • nT een Py be shame tee ~

Wittitiiin —

OLNOHOL 4O ALISHSAINA

Dan Burke identifies two great lies that prevent spiritual growth. The first: "Holiness is not for me — it's for special people." This belief keeps countless souls in the outer rooms of Teresa's castle, never venturing inward because they believe the inner chambers are reserved for others. The second lie: "I don't have time for prayer." Burke's response is the ink-vs-pencil principle: write your prayer time in ink on your schedule; write everything else in pencil. If something has to give, it should never be prayer. Burke uses the Tiffany lamp analogy: each person is a priceless work of art, unique and unrepeatable. God wants to illuminate you from within. But if you never sit before the Light, the lamp remains dark. Prayer is how the Light gets in.

Catechism sources (PD) teaches:

An Explanation Of The Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine For The Use of Sunday-School Teachers and Advanced Classes (Also known as Baltimore Catechism No. 4) by Rev.

(Source: baltimore_catechism.txt)

St. Thomas Aquinas teaches:

CATENA AUREA (GOLDEN CHAIN) Commentary on the Gospels by St.

(Source: catena_aurea_john.txt)

Doctrinal Foundation

T4.G.008 (De fide (defined dogma)): God sincerely wills the salvation of all human beings. There is a universal salvific will in God which extends sufficient grace to all, including sinners and unbelievers.

  • Scripture: Who will have all men to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
  • Aquinas: God wills all men to be saved by His antecedent will, which is not simply the will, but the will in a certain respect.
  • Fathers: God wills all men to be saved; but not so as to take away their free will.

T4.S.010 (De fide (defined dogma)): Baptism is the sacrament of spiritual regeneration by which a person is incorporated into Christ and His Church, receives the remission of all sins (both original and personal), and is made a new creature through the infusion of sanctifying grace.

  • Scripture: Amen, amen I say to thee, unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Ghost, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

  • Aquinas: Baptism is a certain spiritual regeneration, whereby a man dies to the old life, and begins to lead the new life.

  • Fathers: Baptism is God's most beautiful and magnificent gift... We call it gift, grace, anointing, enlightenment, garment of immortality, bath of regeneration, seal, and most precious gift.

From the Sources

St. Thomas Aquinas (catena_aurea_john.txt):

CATENA AUREA (GOLDEN CHAIN) Commentary on the Gospels by St.

St. Thomas Aquinas (catena_aurea_john.txt):

Thomas Aquinas: Catena Aurea, John Thomas Aquinas Catena Aurea GOSPEL OF SAINT JOHN CONTENTS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 1a. In the beginning was the Word, CHRYS. While all the other Evangelists begin with the Incarnation, John, passing over the Conception, Nativity, education, and growth, speaks immediately of the Eternal Generation, saying, In the beginning was the Word.

  • nT een Py be shame tee ~

  • nT een Py be shame tee ~

Wittitiiin —

OLNOHOL 4O ALISHSAINA

Additional Sources

NIHIL OBSTAT

NIHIL OBSTAT Epuarpus Bapcer O.

St. Ignatius of Loyola (autobiography_oconor_1900.txt):

The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Autobiography of St.

St. Ignatius of Loyola (autobiography_oconor_1900.txt):

The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Autobiography of St. Ignatius This ebook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.

Catechism sources (PD) (baltimore_catechism.txt):

An Explanation Of The Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine.

For The Use of Sunday-School Teachers and Advanced Classes

(Also known as Baltimore Catechism No. 4)

by Rev. Thomas L. Kinkead

Nihil Obstat: D. J. McMahon

Catechism sources (PD) (baltimore_catechism.txt):

An Explanation Of The Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine.

For The Use of Sunday-School Teachers and Advanced Classes

(Also known as Baltimore Catechism No. 4)

by Rev. Thomas L. Kinkead

Nihil Obstat: D. J. McMahon Censor Librorum

Imprimatur: + Michael Augustine