The tower of God still rises stone by stone, calling His people to repentance, to humility, and to rightly ordered love. In today’s readings, Hermas learns the urgency of obedience and charity, Augustine reflects on why the eternal Word—not the Father or Spirit—became flesh, and Aquinas explains that sorrow is not always evil but can become holy when governed by reason and love (2 Corinthians 7:10).

Readings:

Hermas, The Shepherd, Similitude 10 – Concerning Repentance and Almsgiving

Augustine of Hippo, Letters, Letter 11 (To Nebridius on the Mystery of the Incarnation)

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Part 1–2, Question 39 (Combined articles—Of the Goodness and Malice of Sorrow or Pain)

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