Aquinas on Going Up for the Feast

Aquinas on Going Up for the Feast

Certain special days are more at the center of life. Some are particular to the person (e.g., wedding, death of parent, graduation); others have universal significance. For Christians, the Paschal days are most special; they are simply the center. How we live them is...
3 Keys to Having Good Fun

3 Keys to Having Good Fun

Having truly good fun is a virtue. This might seem to undermine the very notion of fun by making it a serious matter. Yet here we can discover once again that right-thinking always brings out the true richness of human life. Thomas Aquinas has a subtle and beautiful...
That I Might Be Seen

That I Might Be Seen

The hard conversation with a loved one comes to an impasse. A welter of feelings resolves into one overriding pain: I don’t feel seen. In the end the greatest suffering is to be, or feel, alone. And to feel unseen is the very heart of loneliness. Josef Pieper...
God’s Timing: Learning to Accept and Enact It

God’s Timing: Learning to Accept and Enact It

A great divide in approaches to life is whether we see God’s Providence as really in charge. Perhaps the main way we reject it is regarding timing. Why does this ailment drag on? Why didn’t I meet this person sooner? Did this problem have to happen now? Or even, why...
A Different Thinking, Every Day

A Different Thinking, Every Day

“There is an order that reason does not establish but only beholds, such is the order of things in nature.” Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics What do we spend our time and energy thinking about? For most of us, living what is traditionally...

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