spirit28 and know that, giving them Christ, “as brother, master, companion, ransom and reward”, God has answered in advance every request they can make, since in Christ he has revealed all and given all.29 All the members of the great “family of Christ” recognize one another and call to one another. This is the common ground for the illiterate and the philosopher; here, there is no essential difference between the monk in his cloister and him who bears “the care of all the Churches”, and the voice
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