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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 22, 20204 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...
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 21, 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...
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 20, 20203 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...
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 19, 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....
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 18, 20204 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...
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 17, 20203 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...
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 16, 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...
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 15, 20203 min read
Seeing Things as They Were: Day 33
‘This truth of real things…is contained in the true-to-being-memory. The true-to-being character of memory means simply that it...
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 14, 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...
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 13, 20204 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...
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 12, 20203 min read
Pastoral Gagnon: Day 30
‘Ultimately, it is the individual homosexual who suffers in his or her relationship to God when the church shirks its duty to call a sin...
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 11, 20203 min read
Prophetic Gagnon: Day 29
‘…it seems clear that consistent exposure to a smorgasbord of variant sexual behaviors and the intense questioning of a heterosexual norm...
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 10, 20204 min read
Christian Tolerance, the Public Square, and Homosexuality: Day 28
‘It is important to be clear about the definition of tolerance and its place among Christian virtues. While tolerance may be a virtue in...
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 9, 20203 min read
An Empowered Gospel: Day 27
‘Along with most Christians, I have come to the conviction that the gospel message exists in its purest form in the Bible (particularly...
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 8, 20203 min read
Roman Unraveling: Day 26
‘In the context of Romans 1:18-32, it is true that there is a certain logic to the sequence of events. First, a false wisdom suppresses...
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 7, 20203 min read
Meaningful Silence: Day 25
‘Jesus made no direct or explicit comments on same-sex intercourse, just as He made no direct comments on many other important subjects....
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 5, 20203 min read
Serious Business: Day 23
In studying the Levitical Holiness Code, and Lev. 18:22 and 20:13 in particular, Gagnon asserts: ‘The degree of revulsion associated with...
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 4, 20203 min read
Scriptural Witness of Life: Day 22
‘The objective of this book is to demonstrate two main points. First, there is clear, strong, and credible evidence that the Bible...
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 2, 20203 min read
Dignifying Marital Sexuality: Day 20
‘The task of conjugal chastity, and still more specifically of continence, lies not only in protecting the importance of and the dignity...
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 1, 20203 min read
Body Talking, Truer than Lust: Day 19
‘…the human body speaks a “language” of which it is not the author in the proper sense of the term. The author is man--male and...
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