The ancient Greeks told the legend of Damon and Pythias. Pythias was accused of plotting against the brutal ruler of Syracuse, Dionysius, who sentenced Pythias to death for treason. Pythias accepted his sentence, but asked Dionysius for leave to settle...
Have you ever noticed how young children make friends? A four-year-old will approach another on the playground, introduce himself to the first child he sees, and ask: “Do you want to be my friend?” To which the other child replies,...
Even if you’re not especially fond of waking up early and coming to school, I imagine that seeing your friends is one thing you look forward to. That is as it should be. Friendship is one of the great joys...
Well, Happy Quitter’s Day. One New Year’s resolution I plan to keep is to stop talking about New Year’s resolutions after today. But one more thought, before we leave the subject. Whatever we have resolved for the new year, whatever...
Yesterday we saw that the history of New Year’s Resolutions over the last 6,000 years is one of increasing self-centeredness and, at the same time, decreasing perseverance. The more my resolutions are about me, it seems, the more likely I...
Well good morning. I am sorry I missed you all yesterday, but I hope that it was a good first day back. And I do hope that you had a good break as well. Yesterday was, of course, the first...
Obey God and do the good for our neighbor that we wish for ourselves. This is love. But how is it even possible? Can we just decide one day to be a loving person and voila! there we are, full...
The virtue of charity requires that I love God first by obeying His commandments. But it also requires that I love my neighbor as myself. Two questions naturally arise: Who is my neighbor? And how, exactly, should I love him?...
The virtue of charity requires that we put our loves in the right order. And specifically, that we love God first, and then our neighbor. But part of the reason that is difficult is that there is so much confusion about...
A scribe once asked Jesus which commandment is the most important of all. And Jesus answered, “‘[Y]ou shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all...
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