Station: Ss. Cosma e Damiani
We celebrated today at the Angelicum--50 years a pontifical university, and our patronal feast. So, we had a solemn Mass, student entertainment, refreshments, but no classes, all in honor of Angelic Doctor.
Quote, in honor of the Aquinate, from his Summa Contra Gentiles, III, 75:
[3] Again, if God does not exercise providence over these singulars, this is either because He does not know them, or because He is not able to do so, or because He does not wish to take care of them. Now, it cannot be said that God does not know singulars; we showed above that God does possess knowledge of them. Nor can it be said that God is unable to take care of them, for His power is infinite, as we proved above. Nor, indeed, are these singulars incapable of being governed, since we see them governed by the use of reason in the case of men, and by means of natural instinct in the case of bees and many brute animals that are governed by some sort of natural instinct. Nor, in fact, can it be said that God does not wish to govern them, since His will is universally concerned with every good thing, and the good of things that are governed lies chiefly in the order of governance. Therefore, it cannot be said that God takes no care of these singulars.
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