In dealing with the seven days of creation, Thomas Aquinas makes the following statement: “the Person of the Holy Spirit is implied in the complacency (complacentia) by which God sees...
We do not really understand what we say to each other. The words that we share are not our own, but are given us in a language that pre-exists us,...
The logic of the gift pervades Christ’s farewell discourse to his disciples in the Gospel of John. Ten times in as many lines, Christ speaks to us explicitly of what...
Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me; because I live, you will live also. In these words, in a mysterious...
The parable of the prodigal son insistently and rigorously expounds for us the meaning of forgiveness. The meaning is there in the two words which forgiveness conjoins: the word fore...