Today’s One-Liner (#253)

While he was eating in restaurants and walking freely through the streets of New York, and while his estranged son was growing up in the relative safety of Palestine, Bashevis’s fellow Polish Jews were facing…

The Grace of Sympathy

When I turned, I found that the young man had taken out the dog and was standing at the door looking in upon us with dry eyes, but quiet. The girl was quiet too and…

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…

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…

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…