Comments for Schall at Eighty-Five at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 12 out of 12 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Wed, 22 May 2013 22:44:31 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2013/schall-at-eighty-five.html#comment-16407 Happiness isn't getting all you want. It's enjoying all you have. - Beats NHL Thu, 28 Mar 2013 23:21:51 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2013/schall-at-eighty-five.html#comment-15583 Fr. Schall, thank you. - Alessia Thu, 31 Jan 2013 16:59:00 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2013/schall-at-eighty-five.html#comment-15466 Dear Fr. Schall, Approaching 80 myself (my husband has already reached that milestone), we are both in awe of your vitality and the number of books that continue to roll off the presses. We look at each other and say, "So what have you been doing for 80 years?" Your books and Joseph Ratzinger's books are the only books I read that were published after 1959, --my cut-off date for orthodoxy. Your joy in the Lord shines from between your words and your lines, and when I wonder what true Christian joy is, I think of your smile and your books. God bless you and keep you for many, many years to come. - Maggie-Louise Tue, 22 Jan 2013 13:41:15 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2013/schall-at-eighty-five.html#comment-15465 Thank you Father for all you do. May our Lord allow you to continue teaching us for years to com. - Robb Tue, 22 Jan 2013 10:22:01 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2013/schall-at-eighty-five.html#comment-15464 Delightful! Thank you, Fr. Schall! - Mack Hall Tue, 22 Jan 2013 10:11:37 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2013/schall-at-eighty-five.html#comment-15463 Im sure Fr. Thomas Vincent Conn would have given some good natured ribbing about your foot in mouth condition! God bless you both. - evan Tue, 22 Jan 2013 09:20:58 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2013/schall-at-eighty-five.html#comment-15462 You are a dear teacher and holy priest, Fr. Schall. I pray you discover more of the hidden life in your "retirement". I suspect you have had a few holy men in your life looking over the care of your soul, men such as St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Augustine, St. Francis deSales, and many more. I pray now the embrace of the very little souls, Sts. Bernadette and Therese and those unnamed minister to you. AND! I hope we continue to hear often your sage thoughts. You are in my prayers. Thank you for all the years thus far of tireless planting and watering and fertilizing the fragile vines in the vineyard of the LORD. - debby Tue, 22 Jan 2013 08:48:24 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2013/schall-at-eighty-five.html#comment-15461 Each sane voice speaking of what is true is precious and sadly rare. Thank you Father for reminding us that there is a greater context than will and power. In a fallen world it takes a lot of reminding. You have brought refreshment to many parched souls. - Other Joe Tue, 22 Jan 2013 08:30:36 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2013/schall-at-eighty-five.html#comment-15460 My prayer is that God continues to bless and keep you Fr. Schall! You have taught this stranger for many years and shown him why the immutable is permanent. I can't thank you adequately. - Augustine Tue, 22 Jan 2013 04:10:50 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2013/schall-at-eighty-five.html#comment-15459 O mia patria, si bella e perduta! - Woody Jones Tue, 22 Jan 2013 03:58:07 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2013/schall-at-eighty-five.html#comment-15458 Rarely do we get a chance to thank those authors who have helped us along the way. Thank you, Fr. Schall; "Another Sort of Learning" was a life-changer in two ways: First of all, the book itself helped me greatly. Secondly, I began to read the books you listed. Now, at 53, I am a philosophy professor myself. Who would have thought it? Again, thank you and may God richly bless your future. - Craig Payne Tue, 22 Jan 2013 03:53:52 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2013/schall-at-eighty-five.html#comment-15457 Dear Father Schall, those of us who remember and loved the American culture which was (as is anything human) always in need of correction but not destruction are becoming few in number. Robert Royal yesterday provided readers with a new perspective on understanding what is happening to us, now, in the United States of America: "The Civilization of the Spectacle" is unfolding before our eyes and the eyes of our children. May your voice continue to be heard by people of good will. "All things are passing; God alone suffices" - therefore, we hope. - Bangwell Putt Tue, 22 Jan 2013 02:57:19 +0100