Today’s Readings

Theophilus of Antioch — To Autolycus, Book 2, Chapters 20–22

Augustine — The Confessions, Book 8, Chapter 6 (Section 13)

Thomas Aquinas — Summa Theologica, Part 1–2, Question 28 (Articles 1–6 Combined)

What you love does not stay contained—it takes hold of you and begins to shape everything. Theophilus shows that from the very beginning, man was placed in a world of goodness, yet fell not because of ignorance, but because something appeared desirable and was chosen against God’s command, setting the pattern for every human failure . Augustine then reveals what that looks like from the inside: still living the same life, doing the same work, but inwardly groaning, pulled by a growing desire for something higher while still bound to what is familiar. Aquinas expl ...