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yet it is due to the weakness of the human mind that just as it needs to be led by the hand to the knowledge of Divine things, so also must it be lead to Divine love by means of the things of sense already known to it; and the chief of these things is the Humanity of Christ, as is said in the Preface of the Mass: So that knowing God visibly in the flesh, we may thereby be
carried away to the love of things invisible.
— Feb 11, 2024 03:29AM
carried away to the love of things invisible.
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For this reason S. Augustine says: "In the study of created things we must not exercise a mere idle and passing curiosity, but must make them a stepping-stone to things that are immortal and that abide for ever."
— Feb 13, 2024 03:20AM
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But speculation, as S. Augustine's Gloss has it, "is derived from speculum, a 'mirror,' not from specula, a 'watch-tower.' "To see a thing in a mirror, however, is to see a cause by an effect in which its likeness is shown; thus speculation seems reducible to meditation .
— Feb 13, 2024 03:08AM
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Yet since prayer is the interpreter of our desires the order of these petitions does not correspond to the order of attainment but of desire or intention; in this order, however, the end precedes the means to the end, the pursuit of good comes before the departure from evil.
— Feb 12, 2024 03:27AM
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But when you ask for temporal things, then ask with moderation, ask with fear; leave all to Him so that if they be for your profit He may give them you, if they be to your hurt He may refuse them. For what is for our good and what is to our hurt the Physician knoweth, not the patient.
— Feb 12, 2024 03:02AM
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Pray without ceasing? If by prayer he meant such things as these then I think we could not pray without ceasing. But there is another prayer, an interior prayer, which is without ceasing — desire. Whatever else you do, if only you desire that rest you cease not to pray. If you wish to pray without ceasing then desire without ceasing. Your continual desire is your continual voice;
— Feb 12, 2024 02:49AM
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How men labour when death approaches! They flee from it; they hide from it; they give all they have; [...] Yet even If they spend all their toil and their substance, they can only secure that they may live a little longer![...] If, then, men spend such toil, such endeavour, so much money, so much anxiety, watchfulness, and care, in order to live only a little longer, what ought we not to do that we may live for ever?
— Feb 12, 2024 02:21AM
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we give nothing to God when we pray; rather we ask Him to give us something. But if we consider the actual petition, then we do offer something to God when we pray. For the very act of petitioning is an act of subjection; it is an acknowledgment of God's power. And the proof of this is that proud men would prefer to submit to want rather than humble themselves by asking anything of others.
— Feb 11, 2024 04:22AM
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Feb 11, 2024 03:55AM
Каква интересна личност е бил Тома Аквински! За мен - страшно антипатичен, с пълния си отказ от рационалното за сметка на мистичното - но безспорно интересен!
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Има някаква грешка. Методологията на Тома от Аквино е аристотелианска. В този смисъл, бих оприличил богословието му на автоматон или на коперникова армиларна сфера, в която всички елементи тиктакат в предвидим синхрон, логически, и механично, подчинени едни на други. Това е броеница от умопостижими доказателства. Трябва да знаете, че Тома от Аквино е носеща колона в научния подход на западната цивилизация. Това не означава, разбира се, че мистичното не е било обект на неговите изследвания, напротив, и също така не означава че той не е имал мистични преживявания.Може би просто е въпрос на уточняване на понятията, но той определено е майстор на рационалния подход.
Благодаря за коментара! <3
