223. “The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.”— Ulysses S. Grant Friendship Quotes to Bring You Closer Together 224....
I imagine how one of St. Thomas Aquinas’ favorite philosophers, Aristotle, might have approached this and not try to use the matter and form of what we know as bread and wine. I would say that at The Last Supper, Jesus, “perfectly”, “completely” and “exactly as he intended”, c...
Thus in these famous words about body and blood, Jesus is not teaching his disciples how to say Mass or giving them a doctrinal lesson on transubstantiation. Rather, as I imagine it, Jesus is saying to his disciples something like: “For the past three years you have feasted on me, you...