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With Holy Week approaching, I was thinking of sharing a short daily meditation from St. Thomas Aquinas. Nothing from me—just his wisdom—but I’d do my best to walk you through it and help you understand it. Would that interest you?
He opens the car door for me. He steps between me and oncoming traffic. He offers his arm when the terrain is uneven.
Little choreographies of protection so familiar they've become invisible—
like breathing, like prayer.
He never mentions these moments, never catalogs his vigilance, never seeks acknowledgment for the thousand subtle ways he places himself between me and harm's path.
Sometimes the deepest love is measured not in grand gestures, but in consistent angles—a body always positioned where danger might enter first.
“To love is to will the good of the other” St. Thomas Aquinas
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Very nice essay. Thank you focusing on the importance of hope. Indeed hope is the antidote to despair -- and as Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI explains hope tempers and orders progress. He addresses some of the themes of your essay in Spe Salvi 24-26
"24. Let us ask once again: what may we hope? And what may we not hope? First of all, we m…
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Tim.... are you calling us "weird"?
"Weird," but "revenge of the nerds" weird, not "I track young women's periods on a spreadsheet" weird a/k/a creepy.
I'm trying to think of and encourage "weird" as a gateway to "creepy." Or that fine old Southernism "not right," because that works on so, so many levels.