To the teacher who informed her that there was no saint bearing her name: “Very well, I will be a saint. I will provide a patron for those who bear my name.” (Blessed Dina Belanger, at the age of 8)
Month: September 2023
Have confidence in the compassion of our Creator. Reflect well on what you are now doing, and keep before you the things you have done. Lift up your eyes to the overflowing compassion of heaven, and while He waits for you, draw near in tears to our merciful Judge. Having before your mind that He[…]
Consensus, Consent and Cognitive Ease
Truth can be a difficult thing to grasp. Defined by Saint Thomas, following Aristotle, as adequatio rei et intellectus – the conformity between the intellect and reality, the problem resides not so much in our mind, but that we don’t have immediate access to all of ‘reality’. In fact, only to a small and surface[…]
Acedia and Total Amusement
We live in slothful times. I don’t mean to say that our age is uniquely lazy, however common indolence may happen to be. Modern man can be lazy, of course, but he can, maybe even more often, commit himself to incessant activity, too. There may be ground to criticize the person who claims that he’ll[…]
Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable. (G.K. Chesterton)