by Maggie Ciskanik, M.S. | Jun 22, 2019 | Happiness & Suffering, Transcendental Desires
Gratitude is not only the key to virtue, but also to happiness and prayer. The expression “I never knew a person who was grateful and unhappy, or a person who was ungrateful and happy” captures this correlation beautifully. Much of human happiness and generosity...
by Maggie Ciskanik, M.S. | Feb 1, 2019 | Happiness & Suffering, Latest, Prayer
How to keep your resolutions and cultivate fertile ground for changes that will last. In a previous post, we examined a popular trend claiming that you create your own reality. I related it to a kind of magical thinking that first denies the reality of things “out...
by Carol Lynn Miller | Jan 27, 2019 | Consciousness, Happiness & Suffering, Latest, Philosophy
Among his widely influential teachings, St. Thomas Aquinas addressed the very core and starting point of reality, i.e., what does it mean to exist? The impact Aquinas made to the advancement of philosophical and theological thought is monumental, and he continues to...
by Maggie Ciskanik, M.S. | Dec 22, 2018 | God and Suffering, Happiness & Suffering, Latest
We need comfort because suffering is a part of life, and we can receive joy, because God is in it with us. Christmas can be a desperately sad time of year. Perhaps it your first Christmas without a loved one. Perhaps memories of happier Christmases set up a jarring...
by Maggie Ciskanik, M.S. | Oct 16, 2018 | Happiness & Suffering, Latest, News, Science, Reason & Faith
The latest on Fr. Spitzer’s vision as well as more information about the treatment he is hoping to receive. Many of our Magis readers and supporters have been asking for an update on the stem cell therapy Fr. Spitzer was evaluated for last year. He is patiently...
by Maggie Ciskanik, M.S. | Sep 7, 2018 | Free Will & Original Sin, God and Suffering, Happiness & Suffering, Latest
Can suffering be a gift? Some people think so. “What punishments of God are not gifts?” This is not a quote from the Book of Job, but from JRR Tolkien, quoted in turn by Late Night Show host, Stephen Colbert, in an interview with GQ: “Colbert knocked his knuckles on...
