Today’s One-Liner (#212)
I fell in love with Saint Francis of Assisi as soon as I came to know about him. –Simone Weil, Waiting for God
Author: Mark J. Chmiel
Books You’ll Never Be Graded on Except by Reality
1. Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Genesis, the Psalms. 2. The Gospel according to St. John. 3. St. Augustine, The Confessions 4. Plato, The Apology; The Crito; The Phaedo 5. Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ. 6. The Epistles of St. Paul….
Today’s One-Liner (#211)
Most universities today are so structured that they have no time for reading Aristotle or Aquinas. James V. Schall, Docilitas: On Teaching and Being Taught, 114
Perfect Joy
ONCE when St. Francis was coming from Perugia to Santa Maria degli Angeli with Friar Leo in the winter, and the very great cold vexed him sore, he called Friar Leo, who was going before,…
Today’s One-Liner (#210)
Where there is hatred, let me sow love. –St. Francis of Assisi
From Rules to Virtue
Reimagining the moral life through the prism of the Beatitudes takes us from rules to virtues: from a rule-centered idea of morality to a virtue-centered idea of morality. The basic question changes from “How far…
Today’s One-Liner (#209)
Is not virtue the health of the soul? –A.G. Sertillanges, O.P. The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods, trans. Mary Ryan
Celerity of the Saints
St Francis Solano, when under the impetus of love, would move like the wind so that no one could keep pace with him. On Christmas, a friar caught sight of him rushing along carrying some…
Today’s One-Liner (#208)
Be gentled with others, but stern towards yourself. –Saint Teresa of Avila, cited in Stephen Clissold, The Wisdom of the Spanish Mystics
Living Examples
The most notable new female community was the Missionaries of Charity, originally founded by an Albanian nun, Bl. Teresa of Calcutta (d. 1997), to work especially with the poorest of the poor in India—the abandoned…