Seeking the Wise
In a touching essay, Professor Ralph McInerny recalled listening as a young man to the last lecture the French Thomist philosopher Jacques Maritain gave one autumn night in 1958 at the Moreau Seminary on the…
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Today’s One-Liner (#252)
Start off now, but look, I am sending you out like lambs among wolves. –The Gospel according to St. Luke, 10:3.
Memory Multitudes
During the night he went through his vast store of memories. He remembered the hundreds of people who had passed through his life. He remembered pupils and teachers, friends and enemies. He remembered books and…
Today’s One-Liner (#251)
I contain multitudes. –Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
It’s Not Easy
But the love revealed in Jesus, simple as it sounds, is terribly arduous. That is why the history of our faith so often reads like a history of our resistance to love. Give us rules….
Today’s One-Liner (#250)
“Thy will be done” is the essential prayer of the saint, “my will be done” is the essential demand of the sinner. –Peter Kreeft, Practical Theology: Spiritual Direction from Saint Thomas Aquinas
In One Word, Live as a Saint
So is all said at once. Virtue is the link of all perfections, the center of all the felicities. She makes a person prudent, discreet, sagacious, cautious, wise, courageous, thoughtful, trustworthy, happy, honored, truthful, and…
Today’s One-Liner (#249)
I repeat, you will be able to tell them by their fruits. –The Gospel according to Matthew, 7:20
A Mark of Your Vocation
She was a very good teacher. Of course, it wasn’t like you had classes. But you’d sit for hours, you know, opening the mail, and talking. She was just a wonderful conversationalist, so in that…
Today’s One-Liner (#248)
If I had to fix a date for my conversion, as distinct from reception into the Church, I think I should put it during that winter, and should say that St. Francis converted me, but…