Tuesday, November 7 : Saint Augustine

“I have made your name known to those you gave me.” In the Savior’s thinking, these words include all who were to believe in him as members of the Great Church, which is made up of all nations and of which the psalmist said: “I will utter praise in the vast assembly.” (Ps 22:26) So it is truly this glorification by which the Son gives glory to the Father, spreading knowledge of his name among the nations and to the countless generations of human beings. Thus, when he said: “I have made your name known to those you gave me”, this refers to what precedes it: “I have given you glory on earth…” “I have made your name known to those you gave me”: not his name as God, but as Father. That name could not be made known without the manifestation of the Son. For even before believing in Jesus Christ, there was not a single people that did not have a certain knowledge of God as the God of all of creation. For such is the power of the true God that he could not be absolutely hidden to a creature with reason who wants to make use of his mind. Except for a small number of individuals whose nature has really become depraved, the whole human race recognizes God as the author of this world… But the name “Father of Jesus Christ,” through whom he takes away the sin of the world, was not known at all, and that is the name the Lord makes known to those whom the Father gave him.

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