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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
Not to make proper use of what belongs to us and over which we are masters is a matter of extreme injustice. For not only he who has money ought to share with the one who has not, but also he who has other natural gifts, for he who did not have them himself received them from God in order to share with those who have not.
Oecumenius
As each one has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of the diverse grace of God. If anyone speaks, let him speak as if it were the words of God; if anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen. …
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
God has granted to each of us the special graces needed for the upbuilding of his church, so that we will do what he has indicated should be done, not only without complaint but with joy.
Bonaventure
The chief of the Apostles, blessed Peter, says: "Each one, as he has received grace, ministering it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God." Dionysius determines for us the use of grace in the angelic and celestial hierarchy and says that if the higher Angels were to contain themselves and were unwilling to flow into the lower Angels, then they would close off for themselves the way of God's influence. …
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