Actually, I'm trying to have all three retreat talks hang together.

The terminus are a quote, a starting point, is the infused virtue of divine faith.

We're talking about that now.

The terminus at quem, the goal is Eucharistic adoration.

I think that's on tomorrow.

And the capstone that connects and stabilizes the arch between the starting point,

divine faith and the gold, Eucharistic adoration, is what we are talking about this afternoon,

the real, substantial, and therefore personal presence of Christ in the blessed sacrament of the altar.

Eucharistic iterations is a central component of this retreat, and involves us in a great mystery.

I hope to explicate some aspects of this mystery, with the help of the theology of Thomas Aquinas

for you, and aided by the kind of philosophy that he thought was proper as an instrument

for holy teaching. That was his name for theology. We called it holy teaching. Sarkta Doctrina,

thought that was Christian theology, proper, holy teaching. Sarkta Doctrinena. Thought that was Christian theology.

Proper.

Holy teaching, come directly from God, so many ways.

In that sense, it's different from the kind of theology

in what the philosophers were doing,

especially Aristotle in the metaphysics.

There's something in there we can call a natural theology

that rises up based on our reflections

from this world, maybe to a first course or something like that.

Holy teaching is based on revelation, communicated by Christ.

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