Today’s readings draw a single line through the early Church, Augustine’s confession, and Aquinas’s theology: humility before God’s revealed truth. Clement of Rome calls the Church back to peace, obedience, and repentance through the humility of Christ and the power of His blood. Augustine of Hippo turns inward, confessing that God is nearer than the soul’s own depths and the only source of true life. Thomas Aquinas then shows how sacred doctrine holds together as one science, uniting all things under the single light of divine revelation ordered to God.

Readings:

1 Clement, Sections 16–21

Augustine, The Confessions, Book 1, Chapters 5–6 (Sections 5–6)

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Part 1, Question 1, Article 3

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