self-denial Archives

Biblical Lessons on Fasting

by Deacon Michael Bickerstaff | Feb 25, 2024 | Knowing, Put Out Into the Deep | 0 |

Do you really want to supercharge your faith life? Follow the example of Jesus and the New...

Fasting and the Bible

by Deacon Michael Bickerstaff | Mar 14, 2023 | Knowing, Put Out Into the Deep | 0 |

Do you really want to supercharge your faith life? Follow the example of Jesus and the New...

What Does the Bible Teach About Fasting?

by Deacon Michael Bickerstaff | Mar 1, 2020 | Prayer / Spiritual Life, Put Out Into the Deep | 0 |

“Into the Wild” © by Jef Murray—(Click sketch for artist’s gallery.) Lent has...

What Does the Bible Teach About Fasting?

by Deacon Michael Bickerstaff | Feb 24, 2019 | Prayer / Spiritual Life, Put Out Into the Deep | 0 |

Lent is fast approaching, so I thought we should revisit self-denial. Fasting and other forms of...

Flourishing and Dying

by Jeannie Ewing | Jun 20, 2017 | Family, Living, Spotlight, Women of Faith | 0 |

About two months ago, our family moved to a new city and home. Life was on the cusp of a spring...

Daily Reflection—Laying Down Your Life

by Deacon Michael Bickerstaff | May 19, 2017 | Reflect | 0 |

“Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” (John 15:13). You may never have to actually die for someone you love. You may never have to die for a stranger. But you and I are called to die...

Daily Catholic Quote — from St. Josemaría Escrivá

by ICL Editor | May 19, 2017 | Quote | 0 |

“If you don’t deny yourself you will never be a soul of prayer.” (St. Josemaría Escrivá; The Way) Please share on social media. Print this...

Fast so as to Feast

by Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Ph.D. | Feb 27, 2016 | Sundays | 0 |

“But the goal is to save our appetite so that we can feast on other things… the Word of...

Daily Catholic Quote — from St. John of the Cross

by ICL Editor | Jun 20, 2014 | Quote | 0 |

“Souls will be unable to reach perfection who do not strive to be content with having nothing, in...

The Biblical Basis for the Catholic Practice of Fast and Abstinence

by Deacon Michael Bickerstaff | Mar 9, 2014 | Prayer / Spiritual Life, Put Out Into the Deep | 0 |

Last week, I asked the question, “Are you looking for the secret to a better, deeper, more joyful life in Christ?” and responded by exploring the reasons for the Catholic practice of self-denial. We saw that...

Pray for Life, Marriage and Religious Liberty

by Deacon Michael Bickerstaff | Oct 23, 2013 | Put Out Into the Deep | 0 |

It can be surprisingly easy to forget at times that Catholics and other people of faith are living...

The Necessity of the Cross

by Deacon Michael Bickerstaff | Mar 15, 2011 | Prayer / Spiritual Life | 0 |

Most of us in the Catholic world began our annual observance of Lent this past Ash Wednesday, although Sunday of the First Week of Lent officially starts the season. So, if you are off to a slow start, you are not as far behind...