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Rousing Her Radiance: Day 33
Contending for Transformation ‘Jesus is a foe of any kind of fatalistic mindset that reduces His creation to something less than what He...

Andrew Comiskey
Nov 12, 20233 min read


Rousing Her Radiance: Day 31
Holy Fear ‘He will be the foundation for our times—a rich store of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge: fear of the Lord is key to this...

Andrew Comiskey
Nov 10, 20234 min read


Rousing Her Radiance: Day 6
Ordering Our Courts ‘Beauty is the radiance of truth.’- Thomas Aquinas I love this Church. Strength and clarity for the day arises from...

Andrew Comiskey
Oct 16, 20233 min read


Sloth: A Slow Suicide
Originally published March 9, 2015 ‘Sloth is a kind of oppressive sorrow that so depresses a man that he wants to do nothing.’- St....

Andrew Comiskey
Aug 21, 20233 min read


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...

Andrew Comiskey
Sep 6, 20213 min read


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...

Andrew Comiskey
Mar 25, 202115 min read


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...

Andrew Comiskey
Jan 25, 20212 min read


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...

Andrew Comiskey
Nov 22, 20204 min read


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...

Andrew Comiskey
Nov 21, 20204 min read


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...

Andrew Comiskey
Nov 20, 20203 min read


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....

Andrew Comiskey
Nov 19, 20203 min read


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...

Andrew Comiskey
Nov 18, 20204 min read


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...

Andrew Comiskey
Nov 17, 20203 min read


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...

Andrew Comiskey
Nov 16, 20203 min read


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...

Andrew Comiskey
Nov 14, 20203 min read


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...

Andrew Comiskey
Nov 13, 20204 min read
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