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Tag Archives: Aquinas
Newsflash: Just Because You Know What Virtue is Does Not Mean You are Virtuous.
Now I know that there are many of you who are just naturally charitable. You easily empathize with the suffering of others and you have a spontaneous instinct to do anything you can to help others carry their crosses and … Continue reading
Posted in Aquinas, Augustine, liberal education, Newman, Sacred Doctrine
Tagged Aquinas, Aristotle, John Henry Newman, knowledge and virtue, Mother Teresa
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Do Your Children Know the Ten Commandments?
Every couple of years I have the opportunity to teach a course on the Ten Commandments to High School seniors and juniors. I always try to start the course with a one-question pop quiz that looks like this: Write down the … Continue reading
Did you know that our Lord’s death was a miracle?
After suffering such a terrible passion, I must confess I never thought our Lord’s death was something out of the ordinary course of nature. The question in my mind was why did Jesus not die sooner than he did? The … Continue reading
Posted in Aquinas, Easter, The Passion, Uncategorized
Tagged Aquinas, Crucifixion, Miracles, Saint Mark
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Did Jesus Really Become Sorrowful?
See, O Lord, and consider, for I am become vile… O all ye that pass by the way, attend, and see if there be any sorrow like to my sorrow: Thus Jeremiah laments at the time of the Babylonian captivity, nonetheless, … Continue reading
Posted in Aquinas, Augustine, Catena Aurea, Sacred Doctrine, Uncategorized
Tagged Aquinas, Augustine, Hillary of Poitiers, Jerome, Palm Sunday, passion, Propassion
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The privilege of teaching The Ten Commandments
Every couple of years I have the opportunity to teach a course on the commandments. I love this course. Happy is the teacher to whom such a task is assigned! As a matter of fact I feel just a little like … Continue reading
Posted in Decalogue, Heraclitus, Wisdom
Tagged Aquinas, Deuteronomy, Heraclitus, Moses, Solomon
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Wisely and Slow: Salutary Advice For Students In The New Year
ROMEO O, let us hence; I stand on sudden haste. FRIAR LAURENCE Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast. Students in general grow impatient with the advice of Friar Laurence. I don’t blame them. I, too, sometimes find myself wanting answers … Continue reading
Posted in classical education, Liberal Arts, Mathematics
Tagged Aquinas, Aristotle, Berquist, Friar Laurence, Romeo
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Pagan Literature: The Milk of Catholic Liberal Education
For whereas for the time you ought to be masters, you have need to be taught again what are the first elements of the words of God: and you are become such as have need of milk, and … Continue reading
Posted in classical education, education, Homer, Sacred Doctrine
Tagged Aquinas, Chateau Margeaux, Heraclitus, Homer, Milk, Saint Paul
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Six Characteristics By Which To Identify The Wisest Man
As Heraclitus said (and we never tire of repeating) “If you do not expect the unexpected you will never find it, for it is hard to find and inaccessible.” This is certainly a wise statement. A clear example of its … Continue reading
Posted in education, Literature, Music, Shakespeare, Wisdom
Tagged Aquinas, Aristotle, Mozart, Philosopher, Shakespeare
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The Good Student is Like Earth
In his Commendation and Division of Sacred Scripture (which I, for one, plan to spend more time upon!) St Thomas quotes psalm 103 “You water the hills from your upper rooms, the earth is sated with the fruit of your … Continue reading
Posted in classical education, Science
Tagged Aquinas, Aristotle, Commendation of Scripture, light moves
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Thou Shalt Pursue a Liberal Education
Where did the Lord command man to pursue a liberal education? Or maybe we might ask, what commandment do people break when they refuse to pursue a liberal education? “That’s ridiculous!” you say, “everyone is free to choose the kind of … Continue reading
Posted in classical education, education, Liberal Arts, Uncategorized
Tagged Aquinas, commandments, Ratzinger, Regensburg address, third commandment
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