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 that what he has made is good.”1 Aquinas is trying to explain the work of the Holy Spirit in creation....
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, and so our words have meanings and usages which we have to learn in order to be able to speak...
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 has been given; and, with a corresponding frequency, the revelation of the gift is also implicit, just under the surface...
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 way, Christ brings together seeing Him and living because of Him. Because He Himself lives, He tells us, we will...
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 and the word give. Just as foresight is seeing beforehand, and foreknowledge is knowing in advance, so with forgiveness: it...