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Volume 13 · p. 394
XLVI. Eighteenth Sunday after the Feast of Trinity, Prayer
XLVI. Dominica decima octava post festum Trinitatis, Oratio. Convenerunt Pharisaei in unum, et interrogavit Jesus unum 1. Domine Jesu Christe, qui venisti in hunc mundum peccatores salvos facere, conjunge animam meam tibi uni et vero sponso, incommutabili bono: ut postpositis pro tuo amore septem viris, liberalibus facultatibus, nulli ulterius scientiae per exercitium acquisitae, sed post fidem, spem, et charitatem, sanctam linguam, et prophetiam, ministerium, et sacramentum comprehensionem hujus viae, per plenam cognitionem et dilectionem tibi adhaereat: et non res jam per imagines, sed in te summa veritate videat, quando charitas maxima finis conformitate, virtutum dignitate, et continentia mandatorum animam totam in sui perfectionem commutaverit, ut nihil praeter te diligat vel recolat, sed sufficientia et perfectione intellectus te Deum et proximum, visibilem et invisibilem, unam in duabus naturis personam, filium David, secundum divinam naturam dominum, et secundum humanam naturam filium manifestissime recognoscat. Amen.
XLVI. Eighteenth Sunday after the Feast of Trinity, Prayer. The Pharisees came together into one, and Jesus questioned one 1. Lord Jesus Christ, who came into this world to make sinners saved, join my soul to you, the one and true spouse, the unchangeable good, so that, for love of you, with the seven husbands set aside, the liberal faculties, and no longer adhering to any knowledge acquired through exercise, but after faith, hope, and charity, holy tongue and prophecy, ministry and sacrament, the comprehension of this way, through full cognition and love, it may adhere to you; and may now see not things through images, but in you, the highest truth, when greatest charity, by conformity of the end, dignity of virtues, and containment of commandments, has changed the whole soul into the perfection of itself, so that it loves or recalls nothing except you, but by sufficiency and perfection of understanding most manifestly recognizes you as God and neighbor, visible and invisible, one person in two natures, son of David, according to the divine nature Lord, and according to the human nature Son. Amen.
Notes
- Compare Matthew 22:34-46; Mark 12:35-37; Luke 20:41-44. (Cf. Matth. XXII, 34-46. Marc. XII, 35-37. Luc. XX, 41-44.) ↩
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