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 <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>on this feast day of St. Augustine,</b> <b>we reflect on the development of 
Catholic teaching.</b></span> In one very real sense,<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><u><b> the Father speaks all he can 
possibly speak in his Son, rightly called the </b></u></span></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><u><b>Logos</b></u></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><u><b>.
 There is no more to be revealed,</b></u></span> no more to be said, than what is 
expressed in Jesus. <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Nevertheless, the fullness of that revelation 
unfolds only over space and time,</b></span> much the way that a seed unfolds very 
gradually into a mighty oak.</span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> </span><br><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">A
 lively mind takes an idea, turns it over, considers it, looks at it 
from various viewpoints, questions it. Then, in lively conversation, 
that mind throws
the idea to another mind, who performs a similar set of operations.</span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> </span></b></span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">This
 "play of lively minds" goes on over the centuries. St. John threw the 
idea of the Incarnation to St. Polycarp, who threw it to St. Irenaeus, 
who threw it to Origen, who threw it to Augustine, who passed it to 
Thomas Aquinas, who shared it with Robert Bellarmine, who spoke it to 
John Henry Newman and others, who have given it to us.</span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> </span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">Now <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><u><b>who guarantees that this process moves forward? The answer is the Holy Spirit, whom Jesus promised to the Church.</b></u></span></span></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b><br></div>
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