Why don't 5 Virgins Share Their Oil?

Here are the quotes from Church Fathers that St. Thomas has in his "Catena Aurea":

St. Hilary of Poitiers: "The “oil” is the fruit of good works, the “vessels” are the human bodies in whose inward parts the treasure of a good conscience is to be laid up."

St. Jerome: "The virgins that have oil are they who, besides their faith, have the ornament of good works—they that have not oil, are they that seem to confess with like faith, but neglect the works of virtue."

St. John Chrysostom: "The “oil” denotes charity, alms, and every aid rendered to the needy"

St. Gregory the Great: "both elect and reprobate are roused from the sleep of death; they “trimmed their lamps,” that is, they reckon up to themselves their works for which they look to receive eternal blessedness."

St. Augustine: "They “trimmed their lamps,” that is, prepared to give an account of their deeds."

St. John Chrysostom: "The wise answered, saying, “Not so, lest there be not enough for us and you;” hence we learn that none of us shall be able in that day to stand forth as patron of those who are betrayed by their own works, not because he will not, but because he cannot."

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Good Friday 2026

Priests who were tortured in Communist Prison Camps in Russia for decades were told by their torturers versions of the following “The Coward Jesus Christ only suffered for three hours on the Cross; you have been suffering here for 20 years…give up”

And some of them did give up and renounce their Catholic Faith

And so, on this Good Friday, I would like to look at this question; is there suffering that is worst than Christ’s suffering?

Some people have been sick/infirmed/paralyzed for decades, and may be asking the same question or are hearing the demonic word “Christ didn’t suffer as much as you” whispered into your soul

St. Thomas Aquinas actually takes this question up in his Great Work of Catholicism.

“It would seem that the pain of Christ's Passion was not greater than all other pains. For the sufferer's pain is increased by the sharpness and the duration of the suffering. But some of the martyrs endured sharper and more prolonged pains than Christ, as is seen in St. Lawrence, who was roasted upon a gridiron…Therefore it seems that the pain of the suffering Christ was not the greatest.


St. Thomas later responds to this objection: “This argument follows from only one of the considerations, from the bodily injury, which is the cause of sensitive pain; but the torment of the suffering Christ is much more intensified from other causes."


And what are those other causes?

1) The cause of the interior pain was, first of all, all the sins of the human race

2) He embraced the amount of pain proportionate to the magnitude of the fruit which His suffering produced


And so,

1) Christ’s suffering and death on the Cross is the most painful suffering, and my sins contributed and continue to contribute to that most horrible suffering ever

2) But also, we rejoice in the fruit which his suffering produced, which we will once again begin celebrating tomorrow evening at sundown.

 

Jesus and the Holy Spirit turn us into God

 St. Athanasius famously wrote:

For He (Jesus) was made man that we might be made God (On the Incarnation, Ch. LIV, Pt. III, circa 4th Cent. A.D.).

St. Basil, “The Treatise On the Holy Spirit” cap. 9, 22-23: pg 32, 107-110

“Through the Spirit we become citizens of Heaven, we are admitted to the company of angels, we enter into eternal happiness, and abide in God.  Through the Spirit we acquire a likeness to God; indeed, we attain what is beyond our most sublime aspirations – we become God.”

St. Thomas Aquinas, Office of Readings for Corpus Christi: “Since it was the will of God’s only-begotten Son that men should share in his divinity, he assumed our nature in order that by becoming man he might make men gods.

St. Augustine, in his Confessions, says that he heard Jesus say: “I am the food of grown men: grow, and you shall eat Me. And you shall not change Me into yourself as bodily food, but into Me you shall be changed”   (7, X).

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G.K. Chesterton on What Protestants THINK are the central tenets of Catholicism

"So much of the Protestant tradition still remains that a great many people suppose that the chief marks of Catholicity are those which stood out as stains in the eyes of the last school of critics.  Romanism is supposed to be made up of Popery and Purgatory and the confessional, with the queerest things thrown in, such as incense and rosaries and the images of saints.

But these were often the things most important to Protestants, not most important to Catholics"

G.K. Chesterton.  "The Well and the Shallows".