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By Thomas Petri, O.P., First Things - Blessed John Henry Newman begins one of his sermons on the season of Advent by noting the stark chill of December: “The year is worn out,” he says, “spring, summer, autumn, each in turn, have brought their gifts and done their utmost; but they are over and the end has come.” There’s something about these days of increasing darkness that naturally puts us in the frame of mind to consider the future....

Rev. James V. Schall, S.J., The Catholic Thing - The point of a limit is that a thing is what it is, not something else. It cannot be anything else or everything else but only what it is limited to be – this thing, not that thing. We do not, in fact, want something continually bypassing its limits to become what it is not.