May 2, 2012, St. Athanasius
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May 2, 2012, St. Athanasius
St. Thomas Aquinas reflects on the words of today’s Gospel, “What I say, I say as the Father told Me” (Jn 12:50). Thomas explains that we can follow Augustine in applying this to Jesus’ divinity: “The Father did not say anything to Him as though He spoke by words to His only Word. Rather, the Father spoke to the Son by generating Him, and giving Him life in Himself: ‘He said to Me, ‘You are My Son’ (Ps 2:7).” St. Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on the Gospel of St. John, Part II, 1726, trans. James A. Weisheipl, O.P. and Fabian Larcher, O.P. (Petersham, MA: St. Bede Publications), 265.
St. Catherine writes to the Dominican friar, Bartolomeo Dominici: “But I do not see this that you are able to have it, if the eye of the understanding of true desire is not lifted above you to look at the ineffable eye of divine charity with which God looked at and looks at His creature before He created us. Since He looked upon us in Himself, He fell immensely in love with us, so that for love He created us, wishing that we might enjoy and share that good which He had in Himself” (Letter T204).
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