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4 days ago
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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 t...

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Asexual Slump or Marvelous Desire? Day 39

Andrew Comiskey

5 days ago
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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Temperance: Life and Love on Course: Day 38

Andrew Comiskey

6 days ago
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 Cardina...

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Andrew Comiskey

Nov 19
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. Pat...

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Fortitude for Future Generations: Day 36

Andrew Comiskey

Nov 18
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 Virtue...

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Andrew Comiskey

Nov 17
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
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
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 “contains...

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Andrew Comiskey

Nov 14
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 rec...

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Andrew Comiskey

Nov 13
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 12
3 min

Pastoral Gagnon: Day 30

‘Ultimately, it is the individual homosexual who suffers in his or her relationship to God when the church shirks its duty to call a sin ...

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Andrew Comiskey

Nov 11
3 min

Prophetic Gagnon: Day 29

‘…it seems clear that consistent exposure to a smorgasbord of variant sexual behaviors and the intense questioning of a heterosexual norm...

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Christian Tolerance, the Public Square, and Homosexuality: Day 28

Andrew Comiskey

Nov 10
4 min

Christian Tolerance, the Public Square, and Homosexuality: Day 28

‘It is important to be clear about the definition of tolerance and its place among Christian virtues. While tolerance may be a virtue in ...

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Andrew Comiskey

Nov 9
3 min

An Empowered Gospel: Day 27

‘Along with most Christians, I have come to the conviction that the gospel message exists in its purest form in the Bible (particularly i...

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Andrew Comiskey

Nov 8
3 min

Roman Unraveling: Day 26

‘In the context of Romans 1:18-32, it is true that there is a certain logic to the sequence of events. First, a false wisdom suppresses t...

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Andrew Comiskey

Nov 7
3 min

Meaningful Silence: Day 25

‘Jesus made no direct or explicit comments on same-sex intercourse, just as He made no direct comments on many other important subjects. ...

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Andrew Comiskey

Nov 5
3 min

Serious Business: Day 23

In studying the Levitical Holiness Code, and Lev. 18:22 and 20:13 in particular, Gagnon asserts: ‘The degree of revulsion associated with...

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Andrew Comiskey

Nov 4
3 min

Scriptural Witness of Life: Day 22

‘The objective of this book is to demonstrate two main points. First, there is clear, strong, and credible evidence that the Bible unequi...

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Andrew Comiskey

Nov 2
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
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 female--w...

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