Charles Williams : The New Christian Year

God glorifies in Himself God glorified in the Son of man.

St. Hilary of Poitiers, quoted in Aquinas: Catena Aurea.

Trinity Sunday

We confess neither a solitary nor a diverse God.

St. Hillary of Poitiers: Of the Trinity.

Joseph wraps the body in a clean linen cloth, in which same linen sheet were let down to Peter out of heaven all manner of living creatures; whence we understand that under the representation of this linen cloth the Church is buried together with Christ.

St. Hillary of Poitiers, quoted by Thomas Aquinas: Catena Aurea.

  Joseph wraps the body in a clean linen cloth, in which same linen sheet were let down to Peter out of heaven all manner of living creatures; whence we understand that under the representation of this linen cloth the Church is buried together with Christ.

St. Hilary of Poitiers: quoted by St. Thomas Aquinas, Catena Aurea.

  Vinegar is wine, which has turned sour either from neglect or from the fault of the vessel.  Wine is the honour of immortality or virtue.  When this then had been turned sour in Adam, he took and drank it at the hands of the Gentiles.  It is offered to him on a reed and a spunge; that is, he took from the bodies of the Gentiles immortality spoiled and corrupted, and transfused in himself into a mixture of immortality that in us which was spoiled.

St. Hillary, quoted by St. Thomas Aquinas, Catena Aurea.

  Thus on the tree of life the salvation and life of all is suspended.

St. Hillary of Poitiers: quoted by  St. Thomas Aquinas, Catena Aurea.

  The Lord, having taken upon him all the infirmities of our body, is then covered with the scarlet-coloured blood of all the martyrs.

St. Hilary of Poitiers: quoted by St. Thomas Aquinas, Catena Aurea.

The Lord, having taken upon him all the infirmities of our body, is then covered with the scaret-coloured blood of all the martyrs.

St. Hilary of Poitiers, quoted by Thomas Aquinas: Catena Aurea.