The Church’s worship leads the soul upward—lifting hearts from earth to heaven. In today’s readings, Cyril of Jerusalem unfolds the mystery of the Eucharist and the prayer that binds heaven and earth, Augustine writes to Nebridius about friendship purified by truth and the love of God, and Aquinas shows how passion, rightly ordered, becomes the servant of reason rather than its tyrant (Philippians 4:7).

Readings:

Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures, Lecture 23 (On the Sacred Liturgy and Communion)

Augustine of Hippo, Letters, Letter 10 (To Nebridius, on the Joy of Friendship and Truth)

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Part 1–2, Question 38 (Combined articles—Of the Passions That Soften or Agitate the Soul)

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