May 28, 2025 | Wednesday Quotes
My father loved to say, “Pass it on.” I have an image of him at his retirement saying it to an employee of his who, weeping, was thanking him for being a great employer. There is more here than some miscellaneous nice attitude. Thomas Aquinas suggests this is a key...
May 21, 2025 | Wednesday Quotes
People say that Tom Vander Woude was an ordinary man, and there is undoubtedly some truth in this statement. Yet, he died an extraordinary death. Reflecting on his life and death gives occasion for us to ask to ask whether the life of a husband and father is ever...
Mar 19, 2025 | Wednesday Quotes
If we but had a fuller sense of what it is to be a man or a woman, we would find greater joy in it. If only we knew the gift of God, then, perhaps, we would respond in hope and joy. Men, for instance, would thrill to the drama already implied in the fact of their...
Nov 6, 2024 | Wednesday Quotes
Much of what we need in life we must ask for. As this is simply a given, it points to the importance of learning how, what, and whom to ask. Thomas Aquinas holds that we can naturally know that there is a God who can help us, and who is worthy of honor and worship....
Sep 11, 2024 | Wednesday Quotes
There is nothing like parenting, or teaching, or any real formation of the young to help us to see and focus on what really matters. If we have come to the insight that living well—or living virtuously—is at the center of the human vocation, then the enormity of a...
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