In this Commentary Clip Exclusive, Tony discusses our readings for this weekend, pointing out two virtues that are key to living out our purpose as creatures created in God’s image. Namely, the virtues of humility and magnificence. As he explains, only when these two virtues operate by God’s grace within us, can we reach our created vocation to share in the life of God.
Mass Readings:
Reading 1: Sirach 3:17-18, 20, 28-29
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 68:4-5, 6-7, 10-11
Reading 2: Hebrews 12:18-19, 22-24a
Gospel: Luke 14:1, 7-14
Endnotes:
Luke 12:52-53
Luke 13:25
Genesis 3:2-3
Genesis 3:4-5
2 Peter 1:4
See, e.g., St. Augustine of Hippo, City of God, 1.1.
St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, II-II, Q. 4.5.
Hebrews 12:10
St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, I, Q. 1.8 ad. 2.
See, e.g., St. Augustine of Hippo, Sermon 192.1, Sermon 229G.3, Sermon 259.3, and Sermon 265.2.
St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, II-II, Q. 134.2.
Tony Crescio is the founder of FRESHImage Ministries. He holds an MTS from the University of Notre Dame and is currently a PhD candidate in Christian Theology at Saint Louis University. His research focuses on the intersection between moral and sacramental theology. His dissertation is entitled, Presencing the Divine: Augustine, the Eucharist and the Ethics of Exemplarity.
Tony’s academic publications can be found here.