Veritas et Virtus

The gospel of Matthew tells us that one night, the disciples were out in the boat and Jesus came to them walking on the water.  “It’s a ghost,” they said, and cried out in fear. 27 But Jesus immediately said to them: “Take...

Is Faith a matter of your mind or your mood?  C.S. Lewis offers a compelling answer: “Now Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has...

Faith may be like a pair of glasses, but it requires more than just putting them on.  Abraham is regarded by many as the father of Faith.  Genesis says: “12 Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your countryand your kindred and your father’s...

Yesterday I said that Faith is a little bit like putting on a pair of glasses.  But there’s a catch: just putting on any old glasses won’t do the trick.  We only see clearly if we have the right lenses....

This week’s virtue is Faith. Hebrews 11:1-3 provides us with a clear but perhaps surprising definition of Faith: “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. 2 For by it the people of old received their...

It is easy to think of Temperance as a kind of imprisonment—all this talk about moderation, self-restraint, too much of a good thing, pausing and thinking before we act.  You may wonder, why bother with all of that?  Indeed, the...

How do you know what the temperate thing to do is?  That is, when does some of a good thing become too much of a good thing?  Is it as simple as a list of rules to memorize?  One candy bar is...

Have you ever heard someone say that you can’t have too much of a good thing? Well, they’re wrong.  A temperate man understands that good things are not made better by excess—they are spoiled by it. Food is a good...

Our fourth virtue is that of Temperance.  In some ways, it is the least popular of the virtues – today, the world tells us to pursue our passions, not to regulate them; to be all-in; to hold nothing back.  But this is...