Andrew ComiskeySep 6, 20213 minSloth: A Slow SuicideOriginal 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 ComiskeyMar 25, 202115 minThe 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 ComiskeyJan 25, 20212 minFrustrated 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 ComiskeyNov 22, 20204 minRadical 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 ComiskeyNov 21, 20204 minAsexual 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 ComiskeyNov 20, 20203 minTemperance: 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 ComiskeyNov 19, 20203 minPatient, 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 ComiskeyNov 18, 20204 minFortitude 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 ComiskeyNov 17, 20203 minSexual (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 ComiskeyNov 16, 20203 minJustice 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 ComiskeyNov 14, 20203 minPrudence: 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 ComiskeyNov 13, 20204 minFour 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...