Harvesting The Fruits of Contemplation

This is the third week I am posting quotations excerpted from St. Thomas Aquinas – Meditations for Every Day, translated and illustrated by Rev. E.C. McEniry, O.P . These pearls of wisdom are worth pondering during the course of the week. If you missed the last two week's quotes, you can find them here and here .          For the first man sinned by seeking knowledge, as is plain from the words of the serpent, promising the man the knowledge of good and evil.   Hence, it was fitting that by the Word of true knowledge man might be led back to God, who wandered from God through an improper thirst for knowledge.             We hold that from the beginning of His conception, this Man (Jesus) was truly the Son of God.             Observe that the Apostle John states four reasons whereby the gift of the Incarnation shoul...

As I noted last week, every Monday during Advent, I will posting 12-15 quotations excerpted from St. Thomas Aquinas – Meditations for Every Day, translated and illustrated by Rev. E.C. McEniry, O.P . These pearls of wisdom are worth pondering during the course of the week. If you missed last week's quotes, you can find them here.          Nothing can be thought of that is more wonderful than the Divine fact, that the true God, the Son of God, became a true man.             God moves man to know the truth, to love good things and to perform just works. (Image Source: Wikimedia Commons )             There was no cause of Christ’s coming into the world, except to save sinners.   Take away the diseases, take away the wounds, and there is no need of medicine.          ...