The apostle Paul in his first letter to the Corinthians explains in what the spiritual gift of prophecy consists of: "But the one who prophesies speaks to people for their strengthening, encouraging and comfort. Anyone who speaks in a tongue edifies themselves, but the one who prophesies edifies the church", 1 Corinthians 14:3-4. Paul in this part of the letter…

Jesus in the Gospel of Saint Matthew gives us an important teaching against the sins of pride and vanity, that is, the opposite of the virtues of humility and simplicity:"But many who are first will be last, and many who are last will be first", Matthew 19:30. Recall that the Kingdom of God; that is to say dominion, empire, the…

Jesus in the gospels meets the doctors of the Law and tells them: Woe to you experts in the Law, because you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who where entering", Luke 11:52. To understand what it is the key to knowledge, it is necessary to understand what it…

In the Letter to the Romans there is a statement: "The invisible of God has become perceptible through the knowledge of the created" 1 Rom 20 (Q 79 A9). That is, there are eternal truths and temporal truths. Thomas Aquinas in the Summa Theologiae wrote: "the superior reason tries to consult the eternal" Q 79 A9, also affirms: "the inferior…