"This disease denies to the soul the life of grace; [it denies it] the enabling rectitude of all the virtues; it inclines the soul in a certain measure toward every kind of sin."
— St. Bonaventure [born Giovanni di Fidanza] (1217-1274)
Work Title
Date
1257
Metaphor
"This disease denies to the soul the life of grace; [it denies it] the enabling rectitude of all the virtues; it inclines the soul in a certain measure toward every kind of sin."
Metaphor in Context
5. Finally, the disease in us which Baptism radically opposes is original sin. This disease denies to the soul the life of grace; [it denies it] the enabling rectitude of all the virtues; it inclines the soul in a certain measure toward every kind of sin. Being inherited, "it makes a child potentially concupiscent and a man actually so," and also reduces the soul to diabolical servitude, submitting it to the power of the prince of darkness. And so, for the efficient cure of the disease, this sacrament must provide a grace that regenerates, to offset the loss of the spiritual life; a grace that rectifies by means of a sevenfold power, to offset the loss of the enabling virtues; and a grace that cleanses of all sin, to offset every tendency to vicious disorder.
(VI.7.5)
(VI.7.5)
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Provenance
Reading
Citation
St. Bonaventure, The Breviloquium (Paterson, NJ) <Link to http://www.catholic.uz/>
Date of Entry
01/13/2011
