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May 3, 2026 · Fortitude
We close the fourth week, the week of fortitude, and Aquinas pulls back to show us the system. The gifts do not work in isolation. They form a harmony, each one supporting and being supported by the others. Fear of the...
Read the dayMay 2, 2026 · Fortitude
Twenty-seven days into Easter, John Paul II grounds the gift of fortitude in everyday moral life. The martyrs are its supreme witnesses, yes, but the gift operates just as truly in the parent who keeps showing up, the...
Read the dayMay 1, 2026 · Fortitude
Twenty-six days in. Lewis dismantles the false god of comfort, the "grandfather in heaven" who only wants us to have a nice time, and confronts us with the real God: a Father whose love is demanding precisely because it...
Read the dayApril 30, 2026 · Fortitude
Twenty-five days into Easter, Catherine of Siena shows us fortitude fueled by love rather than mere willpower. "Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring." This is the testimony of a woman who accomplished...
Read the dayApril 29, 2026 · Fortitude
Twenty-four days into Easter, Augustine takes us inside the experience of a divided will, the struggle that every honest person recognizes. "The mind commands the mind to will, and yet it does not obey." This is the...
Read the dayApril 28, 2026 · Fortitude
Twenty-three days into Easter, the Book of Acts shows us the gift of fortitude in raw, historical action. These are not theological abstractions. These are real men and women who, fifty days after the resurrection,...
Read the dayApril 27, 2026 · Fortitude
Four weeks into Easter. We receive the fourth gift: fortitude, the Spirit's own strength operating within us. During Lent, we cultivated the cardinal virtue of fortitude: the human capacity to endure difficulty for the...
Read the dayMarch 8, 2026 · Fortitude
We close our third week of Lent and our week of fortitude with Aquinas bringing us full circle. Three weeks of virtue now stand behind us, prudence to see clearly, justice to act rightly, fortitude to endure the cost of...
Read the dayMarch 7, 2026 · Fortitude
Twenty days of Lent are behind us, and John Paul II widens the lens of fortitude to include every Christian, not only the heroic or the consecrated. Our pilgrimage through the virtues is for everyone, not just for...
Read the dayMarch 6, 2026 · Fortitude
Nineteen days into Lent, Ignatius the soldier-saint brings military precision to our understanding of fortitude. Our journey through the virtues has been deepening week by week, and now we learn that courage is not only...
Read the dayMarch 5, 2026 · Fortitude
Eighteen days deep in our Lenten journey, Chesterton arrives with his characteristic paradox, and it illuminates something about both fortitude and Lent itself. We have been walking through the virtues week by week,...
Read the dayMarch 4, 2026 · Fortitude
Seventeen days into our Lenten pilgrimage, Scripture places before us the great cloud of witnesses and the figure of Christ himself. We are more than halfway through Lent's first half, and the virtues we have been...
Read the dayMarch 3, 2026 · Fortitude
Sixteen days into Lent, the season's weight is beginning to settle. The initial enthusiasm of Ash Wednesday has faded, the novelty of our Lenten disciplines has worn off, and the long middle of the journey stretches...
Read the dayMarch 2, 2026 · Fortitude
We enter the third week of Lent and the third virtue: fortitude, the courage to endure. Our journey has equipped us with the clear sight of prudence and the outward orientation of justice; now we face the question that...
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