Hitting F5 on the Spiritual Life
by Micah Murphy Two weeks ago, I wrote a post about Confession. It was yet another restart for me, a time of renewal, an opportunity to refresh my spiritual life. If only refreshing our spiritual lives was as easy as pressing F5 on our keyboards to refresh a computer screen! Some Confessions follow venial sins that harm our relationships with God, while others follow mortal sins, even years of...
read morePsalm 51
After reading Micah’s post on Reconciliation, and how spiritually cleansing it is, I thought I would share the famous Psalm of Repentance. Psalm 51 is one of my favorite chapters in the entire Bible. Before going to confession, I usually read through this psalm and reflect on my own need for spiritual mercy from the Triune God. “1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to thy...
read moreConfession & Reconciliation
by Micah Murphy I just went to Confession this morning and it was awesome! One of the great things about Confession is its other name (or one of them): reconciliation. Reconciliation is from the Latin word reconciliatio (hard to translate, I know). Let’s break it down: Re – again Con – together Cilia – little hairs or eyelashes (trivia: eyebrows are supercilia) So the...
read moreAbout the Author
Micah Murphy, a cradle-Catholic from Omaha, Nebraska, has been active in online apologetics since his coming of age discovery of the faith. Having graduated from Franciscan University of Steubenville in 2007 with his BA in Theology and Catechetics, Micah became a youth minister and then a teacher of Sacred Scripture at Loyola College Prep in the mission Diocese of Shreveport, where he now lives with his wife, Jennie, and their three children. A man of concrete thinking, Micah prefers scriptural to scholastic theology, in addition to catechetics, canon law, Latin grammar, Catholic facts both trivial and muy importante, and anything else that requires great precision.
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