Learning to Call the Physician

Learning to Call the Physician

Already Plato used bodily health as a helpful analogy for understanding health of the soul. The entire complex realm of cultivating and restoring bodily health is rife with truths applicable to spiritual health, which two healths, of course, while distinct are not...
What Keeps a Father Up at Night

What Keeps a Father Up at Night

Sleep deprivation is recognized as a form of torture, with good reason. Being kept up at night or inability to sleep is often a serious suffering. Yet being kept up, sometimes in the form of choosing to stay up, is a part of parenting. The arrival of a newborn in a...
Aquinas on What To Do With Fear

Aquinas on What To Do With Fear

We know that each kind of passion has an important place in human life. Contrary to the ‘Stoic’ position, passions are not simply to be squashed or set aside. But discovering and enacting the proper place of passions is anything but straightforward. Thomas Aquinas...
Never Call Your Wife By Name Alone

Never Call Your Wife By Name Alone

One of the great Fathers of Christianity exhorts husbands in a most touching way. Indeed, it is so touching we must be careful not to miss the deeper point—that husbands have a unique obligation always to be tender in addressing their wife. St. John Chrysostom...
The Home of Responsibility

The Home of Responsibility

The crisis of responsibility, which is obvious to anyone today, first took root in our homes. We should then address it in our home life. For, of course, home is the ‘home’ of responsibility. There is no context that so clearly demands taking responsibility for others...
Suffering in Heaven

Suffering in Heaven

With classic insight into what it is to be human, St. Thomas Aquinas notes that in a sense there will be anguish in heaven. It is there as something remembered. “The saints in glory will remember the afflictions they endured,” yet “they will not experience them with...

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