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Jesse Romero's Blog · Daily Reflections with Fulton Sheen · Sacraments · Evangelism
Jan 19, 2026
A woman wrote to me about her brother, saying that he was dying in the hospital and that he had been away from the sacraments for about thirty years. She said he led not just a bad life, but he was an evil man. He did much to corrupt youth and circulated all manner of evil pam...
Jesse Romero's Blog · Prayer · Catholic Teaching
Mar 2, 2023
Whether you use the analogy of changing from vessel to vessel so we do not settle on our lees, or of emptying ourselves in order that we might be filled (for God's grace stops when we are filled), or whether it be discipline so that we do not become bastards, the principle is...
Jesse Romero's Blog · Evangelism · Catholic Teaching
Jul 20, 2022
In Russia there was a play called Christ in the Morning Coat. On the stage was a simulated altar filled with vodka bottles, with drunken priests and drunken nuns about it. An actor, whose name was Rostovich, came out to ridicule the beatitudes. He began reading, “Blessed are t...
Jesse Romero's Blog · Prayer · Catholic Teaching
Mar 2, 2022
Whether you use the analogy of changing from vessel to vessel so we do not settle on our lees, or of emptying ourselves in order that we might be filled (for God's grace stops when we are filled), or whether it be discipline so that we do not become bastards, the principle is...
Jesse Romero's Blog · Daily Reflections with Fulton Sheen · Evangelism
Jul 20, 2021
In Russia there was a play called Christ in the Morning Coat. On the stage was a simulated altar filled with vodka bottles, with drunken priests and drunken nuns about it. An actor, whose name was Rostovich, came out to ridicule the beatitudes. He began reading, “Blessed are t...
Jesse Romero's Blog · Catholic Teaching · Theology
Mar 12, 2021
If at any time we are tempted to despair, simply because of the accuser, it is well to go back and pick up the eleventh chapter of Hebrews, which is the catalogue of the Old Testament saints. Read through that catalogue of saints sometime. Then go back and read the lives of th...
Jesse Romero's Blog · Prayer · Catholic Teaching
Mar 2, 2021
Whether you use the analogy of changing from vessel to vessel so we do not settle on our lees, or of emptying ourselves in order that we might be filled (for God's grace stops when we are filled), or whether it be discipline so that we do not become bastards, the principle is...
Jesse Romero's Blog · Evangelism · Catholic Teaching
Jul 20, 2020
In Russia there was a play called Christ in the Morning Coat. On the stage was a simulated altar filled with vodka bottles, with drunken priests and drunken nuns about it. An actor, whose name was Rostovich, came out to ridicule the beatitudes. He began reading, “Blessed are t...
Jesse Romero's Blog · Prayer · Catholic Teaching
Mar 2, 2020
Whether you use the analogy of changing from vessel to vessel so we do not settle on our lees, or of emptying ourselves in order that we might be filled (for God's grace stops when we are filled), or whether it be discipline so that we do not become bastards, the principle is...
Jesse Romero's Blog · Daily Reflections with Fulton Sheen · Prayer · Evangelism
Jan 13, 2020
When I first went to Europe to study as a young priest, I lived in a boardinghouse which belonged to a certain woman, whom we will call Madame Citroff. I was there about a week when she came to me and told me the tragic story of her family. After her marriage, her husband left...
Jesse Romero's Blog · Daily Reflections with Fulton Sheen · Evangelism · Apologetics
Apr 23, 2019
A man I evangelized some years ago, Louis Budenz, the former editor of the Communist Daily Worker, died just a few years ago. I was talking to his widow on the phone the other day, and she recalled the first time that we met. Budenz, as the editor of the Daily Worker, wrote to...
Jesse Romero's Blog · Evangelism · Catholic Teaching
Jul 20, 2018
In Russia there was a play called Christ in the Morning Coat. On the stage was a simulated altar filled with vodka bottles, with drunken priests and drunken nuns about it. An actor, whose name was Rostovich, came out to ridicule the beatitudes. He began reading, “Blessed are t...