Hippolytus shows the liturgy’s formative power—how bishops, offerings, and the eucharistic thanksgiving shape the church’s life and service; Augustine prays that our works and contemplative light make us signs in the world, sending labourers into the harvest; Aquinas insists that reason must order the passions so that these outward practices and inward lights become steady virtue rather than disorder. (Acts 6:2; Mark 14:25; 1 Corinthians 10:16; Romans 13:11–12)

Readings:

Hippolytus, Apostolic Tradition, Chapters 25–38 (Parts III–IV)

Augustine, The Confessions, Book 18, Chapter 18

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Part 1–2, Question 245, Article (Combined — The Order of the Passions)

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