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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
"To perfect My steps in Your paths" [Psalm 17:5]. That the love of the Church might be perfected in the strait ways, whereby she arrives at Your rest. "That My footsteps be not moved." That the signs of My way, which, like footsteps, have been imprinted on the Sacraments and Apostolical writings, be not moved, that they may mark them who would follow Me. Or at least, that I may still abide fixedly in eternity, after that I have accomplished the hard ways, and have finished My steps in the straits of Your paths.
Thomas Aquinas
Next he determines what he asks: "Perfect my steps in your paths," namely of justice. Job 4: "Where is your strength, your patience, and the perfection of your ways?" And this, so that my footsteps, that is, my affections, may not be moved from your commandments. Or Christ asks for the Church, that her steps be perfected and that her footsteps, that is, her sacraments, not be moved. Likewise, since from actions habits are generated, actions leave footsteps in the will. …
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