Thursday evenings, I host a men's group where we spend the first sixty to ninety minutes in random discussion and have a dinner that I prepare.  I miss most of the conversation as I hurry about attending to the fire for the pizza and serve soup that I have been stewing for several hours. Afterwards, we sit down in my library and I recite as my usual custom a Prayer that Thomas Aquinas wrote & recited before study, preaching, or writing...