Andrew Comiskey
Sloth: A Slow Suicide
Original entry date: March 9, 2015 ‘Sloth is a kind of oppressive sorrow that so depresses a man that he wants to do nothing.’ Aquinas...
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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
- Jan 25, 2021
- 2 min
Frustrated Men, Face Down
‘Because we are vulnerable, we can be brave.’ Josef Pieper ‘Inner healing’ tends to attract women, who usually access their wounds more...
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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 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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