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To: shineon

I hear you. It is just a limit of my human mind.


31 posted on 04/04/2015 8:56:07 AM PDT by SpirituTuo
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To: SpirituTuo; shineon
It is just a limit of my human mind.

Consider St. Thomas Aquinas, Confessor, Dootor of the Church and one of the greatest theologians, who devoted his life to writing the Summa Theologica.

On the feast of St. Nicholas [in 1273], Aquinas was celebrating Mass when he received a revelation that so affected him that he wrote and dictated no more, leaving his great work the Summa Theologiae unfinished. To Brother Reginald’s (his secretary and friend) expostulations he replied, "The end of my labors has come. All that I have written appears to be as so much straw after the things that have been revealed to me." When later asked by Reginald to return to writing, Aquinas said, "I can write no more. I have seen things that make my writings like straw."

Tour of the Summa Theologica.

So, ST, you are in good company ; - )

67 posted on 04/04/2015 1:58:38 PM PDT by NYer (Without justice - what else is the State but a great band of robbers? - St. Augustine)
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