St. Thomas More
believed that "the active study of the four last
things (death, judgment, heaven and hell), and the deep
consideration of them, is the thing that will keep you
from sin."
Thomas More: A Portrait of Courage
Editor's
Note:
"Ad Veritatem" is Latin for
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UP TODAY FORTHE RETREAT!
The information about our
retreat is found on page 3 of this publication.
Please send it in as soon as possible as there
will be no registrations on that weekend. This is
a traditional silent retreat which will be
conducted by Fr. Hugh Barbour, our Chaplain, at
Marywood Center in Orange on the weekend of June
6-8.
This is a great opportunity
to study the writings of St. Thomas More and to
have time to reflect onour lives and our Faith.
It is important to take time out from our hectic
lives and concentrate on our Lord.
When Christ was on earth,
even He periodically went off on His own to pray
to His Father. Should we do less?
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MEETINGS: Speaker: Fr Hugh Barbour
Topic: Aquinas Teaches Freud "Not to
Worry"
EVENING
MEETING: 7 p.m., on Monday, May 15th
DAYTIME MEETING: Noon on Thursday,
May 19th
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WORRY - PART II
" I Hope I Said Everything I Meant to Say
About Anxiety. I Did, Didn't I?"
By
Fr. Hugh Barbour, O. Praem, Ph.D
Our Chaplain
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column which received more immediate and happy
response than the one I wrote in the last edition
of Ad Veritatem on worry.
I guess lawyers have plenty to worry about,
and not too many opportunities to express their
deepest worries safely and without fear. Fear,
yes, that would seem to be the cause of anxiety
or worry, wouldn't it? Actually, no. Worry is not caused by
fear at all. St. Thomas Aquinas, whose masterful
exposition of the emotions in the Summa
Theologiae has been a direct or indirect
source of much of the best modern psychology,
teaches us that anxiety is an effect of sorrow,
not of fear. All that follows is his teaching.
The anxious soul has in a sense gone beyond fear,
which is an emotion whose object is an impending
evil, to a kind of sorrow, which is directed at
one's own present evil causes one to lose the
hope of escaping it. Pure fear causes
(Continued
on page 4) Worry
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