Andrew Comiskey
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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Andrew Comiskey
- Nov 2, 2020
- 3 min
Dignifying Marital Sexuality: Day 20
‘The task of conjugal chastity, and still more specifically of continence, lies not only in protecting the importance of and the dignity...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Nov 1, 2020
- 3 min
Body Talking, Truer than Lust: Day 19
‘…the human body speaks a “language” of which it is not the author in the proper sense of the term. The author is man--male and...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Oct 31, 2020
- 4 min
Embodying and Revealing the Great Mystery: Day 18
‘Although the spouses should be “subject to one another in the fear of Christ” (this point is already highlighted in the first verse of...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Oct 30, 2020
- 3 min
Renewed Dignity of the Body: Day 17
‘When the Apostle writes, “Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God’ (1 Cor....
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Andrew Comiskey
- Oct 29, 2020
- 3 min
Rediscovering Our Lost Fullness: Day 16
‘What Christ demands from all His actual and potential listeners in the Sermon on the Mount clearly belongs to that interior space in...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Oct 28, 2020
- 4 min
Deforming the Gift: Day 15
‘The human body in its original masculinity and femininity according to the mystery of creation—as we know from the analysis of Genesis...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Oct 27, 2020
- 4 min
Living Morality: Day 14
‘A living morality in the existential sense is not formed only by the norms that clothe themselves in the form of commandments, precepts,...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Oct 26, 2020
- 3 min
The Incarnation: Main Door for a Theology of the Body--Day 13
'The study of these chapters [Gen. 1 and 2], perhaps more than others, makes us conscious of the significance and necessity of the...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Oct 25, 2020
- 3 min
The Body Makes Visible the Divine: Day 12
'"And God saw everything He had made, and indeed it was very good" (Gen. 1:31). Man appears in the visible world as the highest...
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