Virtues we barely understand: Temperance
The meaning and the fruits of temperance The last of the four cardinal virtues is the virtue of temperance –…
April 2020
On honoring and loving the saints
“Saints are wild. Saints risk everything on God. Saints are lovers: in love with God (and therefore with God‘s children),…
Protected: Israeli mentality. A vocabulary.
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Yad Vashem
August 2016, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel, writing down one thought on a piece of paper: “What is all we live…
Virtues we barely understand: Fortitude
Who‘s a hero, Novalis? There is a lot of talk about “heroes“ these days, isn‘t there? Is anyone who simply…
Flesh and blood, not ghosts
14th April 2020 Face to face “But brothers and sisters, after we were orphaned by separation from you for a…
Virtues we barely understand: Prudence
Ethics of virtues vs. ethics of principles The four classical cardinal virtues are prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance. Those are…
Krisis, escapism, and Palm Sunday
5th April 2020 Krisis We now live in a world different from the world we still used to live in…