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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
As I was in the days of my youth, when God was secretly in my tabernacle. As of each individual man, so is the age of Holy Church described. For she was a little one, when fresh from the birth she was unable to preach the Word of Life. Hence it is said of her, My sister is a little one, and she hath no breasts; in this way, that Holy Church, before she made progress by accessions of virtue, was not able to yield the teats of preaching to the weak ones her hearers. …
Thomas Aquinas
To answer the objection that this is due to him from the merit of past justice, he adds, "as I was in the days of my youth," when I as yet could not have merited such great prosperity. Then he explains the goods of his past state one by one, and begins from the most excellent one, the divine intimacy which he knew in his prayer and contemplation. …
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