Andrew Comiskey
Kingdom Cure
‘The time has come—the Kingdom is here. Repent and believe the good news!’ (Mk. 1:15) At our Living Waters wrap up party last week, one...
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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 11, 2021
- 2 min
Shine
‘Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord rises upon you. See, darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Dec 31, 2020
- 3 min
A Father’s Zeal for the Real
I am a zealous father but not a very well-rounded one. I don’t like professional sports (my kids mock Dad’s half-hearted efforts to cheer...
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Dana Epperly
- Dec 26, 2020
- 3 min
Holy Family Reboot
The Holy Family: Joseph, Mary and Jesus. Wow. As I reflect on this holy trio, I wonder: “How in the world could we ever imagine living a...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Dec 23, 2020
- 2 min
Merry Mess
The bright white carpet in our rental highlighted the dirt strewn all over it by our 2-year-old Nick back in the late-eighties; it seems...
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Abigail Foard
- Dec 20, 2020
- 3 min
Baptizing Barrenness
The Lord inhabits humble, barren spaces. His very presence sanctifies them. A shepherd’s pasture becomes a contact point for divine...
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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 12, 2020
- 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, 2020
- 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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Andrew Comiskey
- Nov 10, 2020
- 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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