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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Clement of Rome
The Master, brothers, has need of nothing at all. He desires not anything of anyone, save to confess to him.
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
Say then, Lord our God, what do You enjoin your people, Your Israel? "Immolate to God the sacrifice of praise" [Psalm 50:14]. Let us also say to Him, "In me, O God, are your vows, which I will render of prose to You." I had feared lest You might enjoin something which would be out of my power, which I was counting to be in my pen, and but now perchance it had been taken away by a thief. What do You enjoin me? …
Thomas Aquinas
"Offer to God." Here he shows what that sacrifice is which God accepts. And first he shows what God accepts from man. Second, what he gives in return. The Lord requires two things from man. First, the sacrifice of praise. And praise is called a sacrifice because sacrifice is nothing other than a profession of interior devotion and faith; for through sacrifice we acknowledge God as the creator of all things. 1 Chr. …
Bonaventure
But the sacrifice of praise imposes upon the heart something naturally related to judgment: it is concerned with a command of nature; and in this all true philosophers agree. Hence he says that "whoever doubts whether parents are to be honored and God is to be venerated, is deserving of punishment."
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