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Truth Be Told We All Need Correction

6:00:00 AMEmma Lindle
Last summer, I went on vacation with other college students in the Colorado mountains. During the week we discussed the meaning of friendship. I was struck by the witness of a priest. He began his story talking about growing up in a hippie commune, finding a youth group in high school which would fight other neighborhood youth groups on the weekends, and raising his siblings who needed a...

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How to Feast: Sabbath 101

6:00:00 AMJeremy Schupbach
I think many feasts are done wrong.  I recently wrote a blog post about the trouble with house parties, and then when I was reading Aesthetics, Hildebrand hit me with a thunderbolt. I realized that perhaps that trouble is merely symptomatic of a wider trouble.    In Hildebrand’s treatment of the aesthetic value of spiritual beauty, he contrasts it with the aesthetic disvalue of the prosaic. The prosaic...

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On Love, Dating, and Breaking Up

6:00:00 AMCatherine Beigel
This past year I’ve been captured by Hildebrand’s philosophy of love like nothing else. The way in which he speaks of the beloved's unrepeatable worth mesmerized my romantic heart. In the very beginning of his work The Nature of Love he says,  “It is essential for every kind of love that the beloved person stands before me as precious beautiful and lovable”(2). Even just from that snippet, please...

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The First Virtue

6:00:00 AMJonah Soucy
I heard someone say recently that humility can be defined as “absence of pride”. Sounds cool, right? Yeah, I thought so too… at first. There is certainly an appeal to this, as pride is the great flaw in human nature together with what many call concupiscence, or the inclination we have towards sin and weakness.  But then I started thinking about it a little bit more. How can...

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Weekly Update

6:00:00 AMCatherine Yanko
Annie discusses the role of acceptance in suffering which transforms it into a moment of trustful response. To see suffering as a gift is not the typical response to say the least. But, it is a response that can make the suffering this gift. To figure out how Annie argues for gratitude, read her post here.  "Be a man!" But, what does it even mean to be a...

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The Biggest Lie About the Saints

1:24:00 PMCatherine Yanko
When you think of a virtuous person, what comes to mind? Is it this? Or this?  Why I am more inclined to think of the nun than the mother, the preacher than the street goer? The daily church go-er has a certain prominence in my mind over the conversationalist on the street corner. I really don’t think I am alone in this. It seems to be a societal...

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How to Mature a "Friend Crush"

6:00:00 AMEmma Lindle
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