Aug 4, 2025 | Sights and Insights
“If you wish to know how these things come about, ask grace not instruction, desire not understanding, the groaning of prayer not diligent reading, … darkness not clarity, not light but the fire that totally inflames and carries us into God by ecstatic unctions and...
Jul 28, 2025 | Sights and Insights
“For we should wonder not only at the essential and personal properties of God in themselves but also in comparison with the superwonderful union of God and man in the unity of the Person of Christ.” Bonaventure, “The Soul’s Journey Into God,” 6:4 After deep...
Jul 21, 2025 | Sights and Insights
“Hear, Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is one!” – Deut. 6:4 (NASB) What is God’s most basic identity? Theologians have debated this for centuries. In Chapter 5 of “The Soul’s Journey into God,” St. Bonaventure considers this question. He points to two main...
Jul 14, 2025 | Sights and Insights
“Our Savior asserts that the whole Law and the prophets depend on these two commandments: love of God and of our neighbor. These two are signified in the one Spouse of the Church, Jesus Christ, who is at the same time our neighbor and God, brother and lord, king and...
Jul 7, 2025 | Sights and Insights
“The creatures of the sense world signify the invisible attributes of God, partly because God is the origin, exemplar and end of every creature, an every effect is the sign of its cause … For every creature is by its nature a kind of effigy and likeness of the eternal...
Jun 23, 2025 | Sights and Insights
I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I do not nullify the grace of God, for if...
