The Goodness of God: a current topic - March

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March 2016

I saw the word Goodness, I say, written upon all creatures, animate and inanimate, rational or not, all bore this name of goodness, I saw it even upon the chair that served as a prie-dieu.

Mother Thérèse, August 10, 1866

The universe as a whole, in all its manifold relationships, shows forth the inexhaustible riches of God. Saint Thomas Aquinas wisely noted that multiplicity and variety “come from the intention of the first agent” who willed that “what was wanting to one in the representation of the divine goodness might be supplied by another”, in as much as God’s goodness “could not be represented fittingly by any one creature”. Hence we need to grasp the variety of things in their multiple relationships. We understand better the importance and meaning of each creature if we contemplate it within the entirety of God’s plan.

Pope Francis Laudato Si n °86

quoted from Summa Theologiae, I, q. 47, art. 1. and art. 2, ad 1; art. 3.

Image : photographs and composition by Ghislaine Pauquet rc

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