St. Sylvester, an Italian nobleman, founded the Congregation of the Sylvestrines, affiliated to the Benedictine Order. He died at the age of ninety in 1267.
I turned in another paper today (only two left to write!). You can read it here: Aristotle on Politics: The Inclusive Rule of the Virtuous. This one is not particularly interesting. It's really just a regurgitation for the sake of showing some internalization of the Philosopher's teaching. The most interesting part is a footnote in the paper that I already posted a couple of days ago about liberal democracy.
We are very excited to have found an Advent wreath (a real one!) in the Spar downstairs, but it has all purple candles!?! Ah, well...
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If you absolutely can not find a pink candle for your wreath, you could tie a pink ribbon at the base of the purple...just an idea.
By the way, my co-grandparents thought that the 2 sets of pictures were both theirs -one for Grandma and one for Papou! They assure me that I will get a set soon.
I suspected that they would try to pull something like that. Although it appears that Papou was the main culprit :)
Papou knows that Maria would want her beloved Grandma AND Papou to have pictures of her to show off at work and elsewhere!
But not to worry. I delivered a set - on my knees before the Blessed Sacrament in reparation - to her Nana. So there!
By the way, the color for Gaudete Sunday is rose, not pink. Catholicism is a religion for men and we don't do pink!
I'll be sure to get you a nice rose sweater for Christmas than Daddy. Seeing as that color is so manly.
And I will wear it every Gaudete Sunday after!
Paul Wakeman has a beautiful "rose" tie that says "Rejoice" on it, I believe. He wears it every Gaudete Sunday.
It's true - I received the photos from Maria's Papou as I was kneeling befor the Blessed Sacrament!
I appears from your representations that tyranny is a monarchy with an un-virtuous king, oligarchy is aristocracy with un-virtuous aristocrats, and democracy is polity when the people themselves are unvirtuous (i.e., Democrats). The unresolved question is still whether there is a system of social governance that is able to BE good without regard to the goodness of the members of that society. We have more experience now than Aristotle did, but even he probably had enough to see that no system guarantees good outcomes.
He sure did see that no system guarantees good outcomes.
Since a good regime is one that directs the city toward the cultivation of virtue it is simply necessary that the rulers be virtuous to some degree.
In fact, Aristotle says again and again when speaking of the "best regime" that it is really a matter of prayer that such a thing ever come about.
So we will continue to pray for the Second Coming!
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