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Our first experience of God is so important, we either experience Him as the police guard that wants to punish or as Creative Love that awaits – Pope Benedict XVI Found here

Thanks, readers, for your patience during the system maintenance Friday evening.

Let all the nations praise You: Thomas Tsugi was born around the year 1571 in Japan, to a wealthy family of Japanese nobility. Educated by the priests of the Society of Jesus at Arima, he joined the order while quite young, around 1588. As a Jesuit, Thomas traveled Japan and became very popular as an… Continue reading Blessed Thomas Tsugi, martyr

The Noonday Demon: The beginning of the attack of acedia comes as an invitation to divert one’s attention from the prayer, work, or charity at hand and to pay attention to something else, which might be entirely innocent or even useful in itself. This is what Evagrius is talking about when he says that acedia… Continue reading Et in Acedia Cado

Morning Routines: The Rule of 5

My dear little son, No. We are not going to switch to homeschooling just so you can watch your two favorite cartoons in the morning.

1. “First, do no harm.” Legislators should keep this in mind (about a lot of stuff.) 2. If the choice to kill my child in the womb is a matter between me and my doctor, why isn’t the choice to undergo a tonsillectomy a matter between me and my doctor? 3. Subsidiarity! The social teaching… Continue reading Random thoughts on health care reform

So I finally finished our 2008 family album last week and started on 2009, only to find that we hadn’t done very much momentous. Since I haven’t been blogging here much, I turned to Facebook to try to glean some clues… only to find that I can’t pull up any status updates older than a… Continue reading Big roundup post from Peony because Facebook ate her life