Oct 22, 2025 | Wednesday Quotes
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...
Aug 27, 2025 | Wednesday Quotes
I think there is a danger for us in the two famous scriptural pericopes on a good woman, one in Proverbs 31 and the other in Sirach 26. I do not know what a woman thinks when she hears these remarkable texts. I want to consider how a man hears them. There is much...
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...
Mar 5, 2025 | Wednesday Quotes
This title can sound like a joke on my wife. It is not. (More truly it could be a joke on me.) Marriage is at the center of the life-drama of anyone who is married. It is always a fitting place to begin again, to start afresh. Especially in Lent. A classic principle...
Aug 28, 2024 | Wednesday Quotes
A husband and father struggles to discover his place in the home. What exactly is his mission and how does he go about achieving it? A proper notion of peace, and of home, can offer clarification. Augustine’s definition of peace is my all-time favorite definition....
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