Today’s readings carry a single theme: how Christians live faithfully when customs differ, emotions rise, and the will wrestles toward obedience. Clement guides behavior with gentleness and firmness, Jerome confronts confusion with precision and honesty, and Aquinas shows how virtue grows stronger when the passions submit to reason.

Readings: Clement of Alexandria, Paedagogus (The Instructor), Book [number], Chapter [number]

Jerome, Letter [number] (to Augustine), Section [number]

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Part 1–2, Question 59, Article 5 (Whether There Can Be Moral Virtue Without Passion)

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