The Key to the Christian Life: Mastery of the Self

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-bqrh9-1872f18 ✠Jerome OSJV offers a bold and clarifying vision for personal holiness in an age of confusion and collapse. Rooted in the wisdom of Scripture, the perennial moral law, and the lived example of the saints, the conference reclaims the forgotten truth that sanctity is not mysterious or unattainable—it is the fruit of self-mastery. With … Continue reading The Key to the Christian Life: Mastery of the Self

Homily: St John Damascene (2025)

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-w2c5e-1863008 On the feast of St. John Damascene, the Church honors a great defender of the Incarnation who upheld the veneration of sacred images amid persecution. His witness, rooted in love for truth and beauty, echoes the healing Christ who restores the withered and fevered in today’s Lenten Gospels. At the stational church of SS. … Continue reading Homily: St John Damascene (2025)

Desire, Disorder, and the Call to Spiritual Maturity

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-adn65-185d960 ✠Jerome explains how desire, though made for God, became disordered after the Fall. The issue isn’t desire itself, but our will grasping selfishly at wealth, pleasure, or recognition. Spiritual maturity comes through discipline, virtue, and reordering the heart toward God. Saints teach us not to deny desire, but to elevate it. In doing so, … Continue reading Desire, Disorder, and the Call to Spiritual Maturity