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What is your life?
16 Then he told them a story: “A rich man had a fertile farm that produced fine crops. 17 He said to himself, ‘What should I do? I don’t have room for all my crops.’ 18 Then he said, ‘I know! I’ll tear down my barns and build bigger ones. Then I’ll have room enough to store all my wheat and other goods. 19 And I’ll sit back…
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Epiphany and the Feast of Thomas Aquinas
In this season I have had sense of the Lord unfolding his glory to me, and his longing to keep unfolding his glory to his people. I noticed on a calendar that today is the Feast of Thomas Aquinas. I was reading a short biography of him here and this story jumped out to me:
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Can we say “Rise up and walk”
Quite probably an apocryphal story, but one I still find relevant in our time: According to Cornelius a Lapide, Thomas Aquinas once called on Pope Innocent II when the latter was counting out a large sum of money. “You see, Thomas,” said the Pope, “the church can no longer say, ‘Silver and gold have I none.’” “True, holy father,” was…
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