Today’s Readings Podcast Description

Patience and perseverance strengthen the soul for the long work of the Christian life. In these questions from Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologica, he shows that patience preserves us from being disordered by present hardship, while perseverance enables us to continue a good work until it is rightly completed. Softness abandons the task too soon; stubbornness refuses to yield when reason requires a change. Together these virtues keep the soul steady under both suffering and the passage of time.

Readings: Thomas Aquinas — Summa Theologica, Part 2–2, Questions 136–137 (Patience and Perseverance)

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