Today's Word
"What does it profit you to enter into profound discussion of the Trinity,
if you lack humility?"
Saint Bonaventure
Today's Reflection
Bonaventure of Bagnoregio was one of the finest minds of the thirteenth century.
He studied at Paris alongside Thomas Aquinas.
He wrote theology that still holds up eight hundred years later.
He was a man of extraordinary intellectual power.
And he spent most of his career insisting that the intellect was not enough.
"What does it profit you to enter into profound discussion of the Trinity," he asked,
"if you lack humility?"
His most famous work charts the journey of the soul toward God.
It begins not in the library but in the wilderness,
with Francis of Assisi weeping before a crucifix.
Bonaventure understood that faith begins in love, not argument.
That the mind must serve the heart, not replace it.
That all the learning in the world is worthless
if it does not end in wonder,
and wonder does not end in God.
Whatever you know about your faith today,
ask whether it has reached your heart.
Today's Prayer
Lord, guard me from a faith that lives only in my head.
Let what I know become what I feel.
Let what I believe become what I do.
Give me the humility that Bonaventure knew was worth more than all knowledge:
the knowledge that I am nothing without you.
Amen.
Today's Call
Take one thing you know about your faith today and ask: do I actually live this?
If the answer is no, that is where to start.