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).

A Beautiful Video on my Journey

 

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".

Should you Fast on the Sundays of Lent?

 No.

St. Thomas Auinas, in his commentary on Romans 14:5 notes: “There are some days on which it is unlawful to fast.  For Augustine says in his “Letter to Casulanus”: “Whoever thinks that a fast should be decreed on the Lord’s day would not be a small scandal to the Church."

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