Archive for January 2011
The Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas
I’ve been drawn to the above painting (Valazquez’s Temptation of St. Thomas Aquinas) for quite some time. During his family imprisonment for daring to take up the black and white habit, his brothers schemed to tempt him away from virtue with a lady of ill repute (upper left). Instead, Aquinas chased her out of the room and burnt a cross into the door with an implement from his fireplace (lower left). Aquinas is left with his consolation: God, and the reason which made Him obtainable.
St. Thomas Aquinas, pray for an increase in the world’s will to strive after virtue and reason.
Fr. Robert Barron…
…saying, more or less, precisely what I was attempting to convey in my somewhat controversial post:
In light of this perspective, one can glean why a business-model exit interview would be unhelpful: leaving the Church isn’t akin to switching phone plans, nor should it ever be seen from a consumerist point-of-view.