Articles and Blogs
Good Spiritual Resources: Articles
There are many spiritual articles that are good resources for
spiritual growth and enrichment. Aside from the articles in this
web site, there are also many other very good articles in
Catholic Online. You can always choose which articles
can help deepen your knowledge of the Catholic faith and
eventually improve your personal relationship with Christ
and the Catholic Church.
For purely spiritual articles, these are the articles in
this web site to read:
"The Holy Spirit Strengthens the 'Inner Man'";
"What Must We Do, Brothers?";
What is the Christian Vocation?;
How Can I Be A Good Catholic Every Christmastime?;
These articles are spiritual in nature. However, for
those who have read articles in this web site that have
integrated the Catholic faith and its use of the Net as a means of
promoting it, you can read more of them in the page:
"
What's Featured?"
What is good about the Catholic articles in this web site is
their being briefly written - most of them written in
pure and simple style. Articles that contain theological and
spirituality jargon are often very difficult to understand
because they use terminology that are associated with the
disciplines of theology and spirituality. In case you come across
articles in this web site that use some theological and
spirituality jargon and terminology, you can easily use our search
function to search for the meaning of the terms online.
In some of the articles, there are however already some brief
definitions made to explain the theological and spirituality
terms that have been used for the purposes of informing about
the Catholic faith.
If we were to gauge the usefulness of many Catholic articles,
the most useful in terms of current information are the news
articles. The easiest articles to understand are certainly
those news articles that give updates on many things happening
in the Catholic Church all over the world. There are many
Catholic web sites that give all these current information
in their news services. Some of these news articles you can
subscribe for free and some articles are given in more detail
when you subscribe to them for a fee.
Most of the news articles that circulate around the Internet
are simple and plain and do not give theology and spirituality
jargon except for certain sections which feature them. However,
the focus of these news articles is more informative in nature
than instructive or leading to deeper reflection. These articles
give information and do not necessarily lead to the spiritual
insight and wisdom that is often related with articles that
are produced through theological and spiritual education and
formation. To benefit really online from good spiritual articles
that are written by very good Catholics, one can select those
articles that deal positively with the many institutions,
missions and works of the Church. The best articles to read
are those that deal with the Church's classic devotions and
spiritualities.
At this time of our Catholic history, the focus in the Catholic
Church is on the reality of the the Eucharist and devotion to
Mary. There are many articles abounding in both these subjects.
You can search for articles that deal on both these themes.
It is important to note that in classic tradition, the Eucharist
and the devotion to the blessed Mother are the two pillars of
Catholic tradition that will anchor very well the faith of Catholics
as is mentioned through the vision of St. John Bosco of a stormy
sea that seeks to destroy the boat of Peter. In that vision, the
boat did not sink because it was anchored well to two pillars
which has the Eucharist and the Blessed Mother on the top - safely
guiding it to shore.
Articles are very beneficial for the day to day life of Christians
because they keep and enrich the spirituality of each one of them.
Many of the news articles in
Zenit,
and the purely spiritual articles
help Catholics in their even though many are working professionals
who have a very busy lifestyle. The news articles anchor the faithful
in the present situation while the purely spiritual and classic
articles become the context for judging wisely how we Catholics are
to proceed as committed Christians in tackling serious moral issues.
It helps Catholics to respond with broad-mindededness to the question,
"what would Jesus do?"
Although articles are beneficial for the fast-paced Christian
lifestyle, many books, magazines and documents from the Vatican
are even in themselves very substantial even though they are more
dated in their information and content. But if anyone wishes to
find concrete moral solutions in dealing with contemporary moral
issues and problems, and would also wish to discern a guided course
of action, then the wisdom and truth of the spirituality in the
Vatican documents, and the contents and materials in many books,
magazines that refer to the documents of the Church, will help
Catholics study and discern what should be done. They will always
anchor the Catholic well and provide the right and proper direction
in which to proceed.
For those not actively involved in difficult moral situations and
issues that need serious Christian discernment and active nonviolent
stands, then the articles in this web site will give these Catholics
a renewed outlook on the the Catholic faith, spirit and lifestyle.
The Catholic articles written in this web site are brief - something
one can read in one sitting. It will truly help the Catholic working
professional to find spiritual enrichment and nourishment while on
the move and on the go.
Good Spiritual Resources: Blogs
Some of the blogs integrated into
PCentral Online WebNetwork
are good spiritual resources. These blogs deal on the subjects
and topics of prayer, discernment, lectio divina, Marian devotion,
rosary, Holy Spirit, the gifts of the Holy Spirit, theological
virtues, moral virtues, mysticism, confession, Eucharist, holiness,
wholeness and healing, saints, classic spiritualities, meditation,
contemplation, Eucharistic adoration, lay vocation, personal
vocation and reflections on the Sunday readings. A list of blogs
which deal with these spiritual topics can be found in
Blogs.
To find out whatever specific topic or subject you may wish to
learn more about from the list of topics and subjects listed
above that are found in the blogs, you can read the blogs
that have a title that may contain the said topic or subject
and use the search function in the blogs themselves.
Blogger,
the one who hosts the majority of the
WebNetwork's PCentral
Online's blogs has a search function to help you with your
search needs.
If you want to be a regular subscriber to some of these blogs,
three of these blogs are already syndicated via RSS Feeds
and can be integrated into your My Yahoo! page. There is an
addtomyyahoo button in the "
What's New?" page to help you subscribe to these blogs.