Today’s readings lead us deeper into the structure and service of the early Church through Constitutions of the Holy Apostles, Book 3, Chapters 15–20, where we see firm instructions for deacons, deaconesses, and bishops, including the humility and faithfulness required in ministry and the sacred order of baptism. We then move to Augustine’s The Confessions, Book 9, Chapter 7 (Sections 15–16), where Augustine vividly recounts the miraculous healing of a blind man through the relics of the martyrs, strengthening the Church amidst persecution. Finally, we read Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologica, Part 1, Question 63, Article 6, where Aquinas carefully clarifies that although no physical time elapsed, the angels fell through a sequence of interior acts of their will, affirming both their dignity and their tragedy.

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