Jan 13, 2021 | Man of the Household, Wednesday Quotes
“These coppers, big and little, these brooms and clouts and brushes, were tools; and with them one made, not shoes or cabinet-work, but life itself. One made a climate within a climate; one made the days,–the complexion, the special flavor, the special happiness...
Jan 6, 2021 | Man of the Household, Wednesday Quotes
Now it is best that there should be a public and proper care for such matters; but if they are neglected by the community it would seem right for each man to help his children and friends toward virtue… Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics Being docile to reality means...
Dec 30, 2020 | Wednesday Quotes
The Magi are men who inquire into the nature of things philosophically… Rabanus There are few stories like that of three men who mysteriously appear from the ‘east’ and then disappear again in the mist of history. As a philosopher I take them as patron. In...
Dec 23, 2020 | Wednesday Quotes
Thus the Word of God while yet in the bosom of the Father was known to the Father alone; but when he was clothed with flesh as a word is clothed with a voice, then he was first made manifest and known… Thomas Aquinas For most of us meditation does not come...
Dec 16, 2020 | Good Work, Man of the Household, Natural Steward, True Friendship, Wednesday Quotes
“We’ve gotten stuck in the summer mode, in chronic summer… In fall and winter we should move into a new mode, a contractive and restorative mode… like coming home at the end of the day… with a sense of settling, of slowing down, of peace, of...
Dec 9, 2020 | Man of the Household, Other / Misc, Wednesday Quotes
“Everything human is an overflow from contemplation… We so rarely grant contemplation its proper place. Yet it cannot overflow unless it has this place. Nevertheless, everything derives from its fulness…” Pierre T. Dehau, O.P. The waters of reality run...
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