Do I Really Hear Other People?

Do I Really Hear Other People?

At the heart of relationships between people is hearing. Hearing, says Thomas Aquinas, is how we learn from another person. In the very same vein he says, “Hearing is the way to life.” But there is hearing, and there is hearing. And sometimes we might realize that...
What Are We Working For?

What Are We Working For?

Given how much of life is taken up with work, I think we give too little reflection to a key question: what really is, or should be, the point of our working? We often undertake our work simply as something that must be done. But the intention and so also the spirit...
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...
Where Do You Graze Your Flock?

Where Do You Graze Your Flock?

It is perhaps the most important thing I ask someone I love. In a sense, nothing else matters. “Show me, you whom my soul loves, where you graze your flock, where you rest at midday.” (Song of Songs 1:7) Wherever that is, so there will I live. With you. This brings to...
Changing How Our Children Do Dating

Changing How Our Children Do Dating

How our young people date is problematic; and I’m not talking about the mainstream habits of a ‘hookup culture.’ I mean young people from families with traditional values, where preparing for marriage and waiting for marriage are implicit, accepted goods. It is not...

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