St. Thomas confessed to his friend Reginald of Piperno that, after a divine revelation, he considered his work as "so much straw", writing nothing further afterwards.
Benedict XVI: "It is a mysterious episode that helps us understand ... the fact that all that we are able to think and say about the faith, as elevated and pure as it may be, is infinitely surpassed by the greatness and the beauty of God..."
5 posted on 06/16/2010 10:31:28 PM PDT by Talisker
(When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
That quote is from an earlier general audience on St. Thomas Aquinas. At that audience, Benedict XVI said, "In coming catecheses we will explore the thought and writings of this great theologian."
6 posted on 06/17/2010 6:53:08 AM PDT by ELS
(Vivat Benedictus XVI!)