I have known this to happen many times over the years.
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Tomorrow, instead of the usual interview, I’ll be sharing a meditation on the suffering and death of Our Lord—featuring the profound insights of St. Thomas Aquinas. It’s Holy Week, and I hope this helps you draw closer to Christ.
“The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural cure for suffering, but a supernatural use for it.'“
—Simone Weil
Blessed Holy Week to all—
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"A saint is not someone who never sins, but one who sins less and less frequently and gets up more and more quickly."
—St. Bernard
This is insightful. As a Catholic — a cradle Catholic, but an intellectual one — I spent a long time jumping, like Qoheleth, from one pursuit to another in order to find meaning, to “prove” myself, as it were. That included a lot of intellectual pursuits and attempts to master Catholic theology.
Like many who attended Steubenville — defi…
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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?
Amelia McKee is terrific and does a much better job on the Krafft stations than I did.
The Stations of the Cross and the Seven Falls in Medieval Germany
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The Cross is the way of Paradise, but only when it’s borne willingly.
—St. Paul of the Cross
“The greatest tragedy of our time is not the sinfulness of the world, but the silence of the Church.”
—Cardinal Robert Sarah
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Super busy week! Drove out to Dallas to pick up my son’s friends so they could all go on a seminary visit from our diocese.
We’re so close paying off the big family van, but we started thinking about tariffs driving up the cost of cars and having two vehicles over 100,000 miles probably isn’t smart with all these kids. So I spent all day Friday negotiating to afford a small SUV (with the money we’ll save shortly once the van note is paid) so we at least have something we can use fo…
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Angel in the Waters (amzn.to/3RUhG0c) is a modern* classic, and the best for talking about a new sibling growing. Parents are gonna cry though.
*anything post-dating my childhood is modern.
Reading Beautiful Books to/with Children (2-5 year olds edition)
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