Oculata Fide: January 2022

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"That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon and touched with our hands, concerning the word of life -- the life was made manifest, and we saw it, and testify to it ...." I John 1:1-2 (RSV)

"After his resurrection the disciples saw the living Christ, whom they knew to have died, with the eyes of faith (oculata fide)." Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, III, 55, 2 ad 1, as quoted in D. M. Stanley, Jesus in Gethsemane (New York, Paulist Press 1980).

Saturday, January 8, 2022

Henri de Lubac - St. Ambrose

I have been reading a lot of Henri de Lubac lately.

Somewhere de Lubac quotes St. Ambrose who said:

"Et nunc deambulabat in paradiso Deus, quando divinas Scripturas lego."

Even today, God walks in paradise, when I read the divine Scriptures.