Day 16: Freedom for Emotion
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‘…the power of deep feeling seems to serve me, only to deceive me.’ Joni Mitchell Emotions confirm our wonderful, conflictual humanity....
Abigail Foard
- Oct 27, 2021
- 3 min
Day 15: How Mary Loved
Editor’s Note: TOB is the abbreviation for Pope St. John Paul II’s book “Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body” Pauline...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Oct 26, 2021
- 3 min
Day 14: How Jesus Loved
Editor’s Note: TOB is the abbreviation for Pope St. John Paul II’s book “Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body” Pauline...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Oct 25, 2021
- 3 min
Day 13: Rediscovering Our Lost Fullness
Editor’s Note: TOB is the abbreviation for Pope St. John Paul II’s book “Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body” Pauline...
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Christina Basch
- Oct 24, 2021
- 3 min
Day 12: Freedom from Lust, for True Desire (From a Woman's Perspective)
I grew up in church, hearing sermons about God’s intentions for man and woman, the preciousness of purity and why we shouldn’t 'give...
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Devon Basch
- Oct 23, 2021
- 3 min
Day 11: Freedom from Lust, for True Desire (From a Man's Perspective)
Editor’s Note: TOB is the abbreviation for Pope St. John Paul II’s book “Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body” Pauline...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Oct 22, 2021
- 2 min
Day 10: Welcoming the Gift of the Other
Editor’s Note: TOB is the abbreviation for Pope St. John Paul II’s book “Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body” Pauline...
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Adam Pane
- Oct 20, 2021
- 3 min
Day 8: Rejoicing in the Body (From a Man's Perspective)
Editor’s Note: TOB is the abbreviation for Pope St. John Paul II’s book “Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body” Pauline...
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Marco Casanova
- Oct 19, 2021
- 2 min
Day 7: Incarnation--Hinge of Wholeness
Editor’s Note: TOB is the abbreviation for Pope St. John Paul II’s book “Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body” Pauline...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Oct 18, 2021
- 3 min
Day 6: Freedom to Choose Love
Editor’s Note: TOB is the abbreviation for St. John Paul II’s book “Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body” Pauline Press...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Oct 17, 2021
- 2 min
Day 5: The Divider and Disintegration
‘The thief comes only to steal, kill, and destroy…’ (Jn. 10:10) Integration is wholeness, and God who created and redeems us, its...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Oct 16, 2021
- 2 min
Day 4: Empowered Will and Self-Possession
St. Paul counters the slavish sexual immorality tempting Christians by urging them ‘to possess their bodies in holiness and reverence’ (1...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Oct 15, 2021
- 2 min
Day 3: Integration is Freedom
Integration (an ‘integer’ is a whole number but can broaden to include something whole in itself) grants us a map for wholeness. It is a...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Oct 14, 2021
- 2 min
Day 2: Jesus--Embodied Gift Who Activates Ours
Editor’s Note: TOB is the abbreviation for St John Paul II’s book “Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body” Pauline Press...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Oct 13, 2021
- 3 min
Day 1: Freedom of the Gift
Every human being is a gift from God. Before we are born from natural descent, tossed and anchored by parental decisions and...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Oct 11, 2021
- 2 min
Close the Gap
‘You see the trouble we are in…in ruins, our gates burned with fire. Come, let us rebuild the wall…and we will no longer be in disgrace’...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Oct 4, 2021
- 2 min
Discover ‘Freedom of the Gift’ with Us!
Freedom figures in big to the Gospel: Jesus declares that His truth ‘sets us free’, fully and completely, while St. Paul declares to us...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Sep 27, 2021
- 2 min
Father’s Kiss
Last week, my son Nick asked me to preach the sermon for his ‘institution’ as senior rector. (Nick’s new post takes he and wife Meg from...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Sep 13, 2021
- 3 min
Seven C's: A List of Helps for Struggling Loved Ones
Original entry date: Spring 2017 Newsletter Conversion: The realization that a loved one has assumed a false identity invites you to go...
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Andrew Comiskey
- Sep 6, 2021
- 3 min
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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