catherine-of-alexandria:

In our secular age, people go into higher learning with blank slate. Meaning, they aren’t driven by a purpose or in search of truth. In consequence, they look for identity. And the most common pitfalls of that is to search for identity in feminism and other forms of class struggle. The search for identity then becomes seeking redemption from past struggles and trying to find a way to redress them to have a balance.

In contrast, the Middle Ages people offered up their whole being to God; the Scholastics incorporated Aristotelian philosophy into theology to strengthen the Faith, the artists used their talents to depict the events in the Bible, and the craftmen lifted up their physical labor in prayer.

Their Faith was the steering wheel, not the spare tire, in their lives.

In serving Christ, they saw how their souls colors the light of God as it shines through them.