Andrew Comiskey
Immerse this Easter
Easter lasts longer than any other holy season. Makes sense. God invites us to linger in the waters, to immerse ourselves in new life—to...
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Abigail Foard
- Apr 11, 2021
- 2 min
Merciful Refuge
“O Blood and Water, which gushed forth from the heart of Jesus as a fount of mercy for us, I trust in you!” – Chaplet of Divine Mercy A...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Mar 25, 2021
- 15 min
The Converting Power of Chastity (Feat. Article in 'Coming Home Network International' Newsletter)
I remember always loving the cross. Growing up in a beach town near Los Angeles in the sixties and seventies, my three siblings and I...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Mar 19, 2021
- 2 min
Sanctuary: Why I am Catholic
‘We are more important to God than all the sins we commit. But He does not and cannot bless sin. He blesses sinful man, so that he may...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Feb 22, 2021
- 2 min
Transforming the Desert
‘At once the Spirit sent Him out into the desert, and He was in the desert forty days, being tempted by Satan. He was with the wild...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Feb 1, 2021
- 2 min
Trapped
‘Our commitment on issues of human sexuality [and every other area] are guided by Christ’s commandment to love and to stand in solidarity...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Jan 3, 2021
- 3 min
Burn-Around
‘To authentically live Christmas is to be born again with that little baby, who speaks constantly to us about the infinite, faithful, and...
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Marco Casanova
- Dec 13, 2020
- 3 min
Festive Refinement
“Rejoice!” (Phil 4:4) Today is known as “Gaudete Sunday” (Gaudete--Latin “rejoice”). We set a fire to the lone rose-colored candle. The...
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Annette Comiskey
- Dec 6, 2020
- 2 min
Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord
I was a high school senior in 1974 and our church youth group was obsessed with the Broadway show Godspell, a then hip, countercultural...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Nov 22, 2020
- 4 min
Radical Wholeness: Day 40
‘Aquinas assigns intemperance to the “roving unrest of spirit”, which he says is the first-born daughter of acedia (or sloth)…Acedia is...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Nov 21, 2020
- 4 min
Asexual Slump or Marvelous Desire? Day 39
‘To begin with: for Thomas Aquinas it is plainly self-evident--indeed so self-evident that it need hardly be mentioned even to those but...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Nov 20, 2020
- 3 min
Temperance: Life and Love on Course: Day 38
‘The primary and essential meaning of temperance…is this: to dispose various parts into one unified and ordered whole.’ (The Four...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Nov 19, 2020
- 3 min
Patient, Peaceful Endurance: Day 37
‘To be patient means to preserve cheerfulness and serenity of mind in spite of injuries that result from the realization of the good....
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Andrew Comiskey
- Nov 18, 2020
- 4 min
Fortitude for Future Generations: Day 36
‘To be brave actually means to be able to suffer injury. Because man is by nature vulnerable, he can be brave.’ (The Four Cardinal...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Nov 17, 2020
- 3 min
Sexual (In)Justice: Day 35
‘…any unchastity has these two aspects: to be at once intemperance and injustice.’ (The Four Cardinal Virtues, Josef Pieper, p. 158) ‘…in...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Nov 16, 2020
- 3 min
Justice and True Sexual Nature: Day 34
‘Justice is the virtue which enables man to give to each one his due.’ (The Four Cardinal Virtues, Josef Pieper, p. 44) ‘We cannot state...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Nov 15, 2020
- 3 min
Seeing Things as They Were: Day 33
‘This truth of real things…is contained in the true-to-being-memory. The true-to-being character of memory means simply that it...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Nov 14, 2020
- 3 min
Prudence: Decisive Reality: Day 32
‘To be open to the truth of real things and to live by the truth that one has grasped is the essence of the moral being. Only when we...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Nov 13, 2020
- 4 min
Four Hinges on the Door of Life: Day 31
‘“The doctrine of virtue” was one of the great discoveries in the history of man’s self-understanding…It has become a basic component of...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Nov 3, 2020
- 4 min
Taking a Stand on Shifting Ground: Day 21
‘In the cultural, political, religious, and academic arenas of our lives, issues related to homosexuality and homosexual persons are...
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