These three readings together give a disciplined curriculum for sanctification: the Apostolic Tradition shows how the church forms bodies and habits — fasting, orderly hospitality, hourly prayer, catechesis, and charitable care — so that the community’s external rhythms cultivate inward stability and readiness for sacrament and service; Augustine’s reflection on angels and the “unchangeable light” reminds us that true knowledge of God is ultimately experienced by a transforming love that makes the soul thirsty for what is eternal rather than satisfied with temporal goods; and Aquinas (Q24) teaches how the passions — concupiscible and irascible — are morally neutral movements that become virtuous only when reason and right intention order them toward the true good. Put simply: liturgical formation trains the body, Augustine awakens the he ...