Today’s One-Liner (#255)
For wherever your treasure is, that is where your heart will be too. –The Gospel according to Saint Luke, 12:34
Category: Catholicism
Change Is Possible
Therefore whenever you see evil, look for the good behind it, the good that it is perverting. When you see a parasite, look for its host. When God saw the hate-filled persecutor of Christians, Saul…
Today’s One-Liner (#254)
Sin consists in the loss of order in the soul, just as sickness consists in disorder of the body. ––Saint Thomas Aquinas, in Josef Pieper, The Human Wisdom of St. Thomas, #299
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…
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.
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…