{"id":24233,"date":"2009-01-13T05:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/01\/saint-hilary-of-poitiers\/"},"modified":"2009-01-13T05:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T09:45:00","slug":"saint-hilary-of-poitiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/01\/saint-hilary-of-poitiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Hilary of Poitiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'\"><font color=\"#000000\"><em>All-powerful God, as Saint Hilary defended the divinity of Christ Your Son, give us a deeper understanding of this mystery and help us to profess it in all truth.<o:p><\/o:p><\/em><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'\"><o:p><font color=\"#000000\"><\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'\"><font color=\"#000000\"><\/font><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'\"><font color=\"#000000\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"DISPLAY: inline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Saint%20Hilary%20of%20Poitiers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 20px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" height=\"200\" alt=\"Saint Hilary of Poitiers.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Saint%20Hilary%20of%20Poitiers-thumb-350x200.jpg\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newadvent.org\/cathen\/07349b.htm\"><\/a><\/span>Saint Hilary of Poitiers (315-368) was a leading defender of the Church against the Arian heresy. He wrote twelve books about the Holy Trinity as well as commentaries on St. Matthew&#8217;s Gospel and the Psalms. Known as the Doctor of the Divinity of Christ and in 1851 named a Doctor of the Church.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'\"><font color=\"#000000\"><\/font><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Drawing confidence from God&#8217;s kindness to undertake the office of a wise man, though it is an office beyond our powers, we intend so far as we can (<em>pro nostro modulo<\/em>) to set forth the truth professed by the Catholic faith, <strong>and to eliminate errors opposed to it<\/strong>. For, if I may use the words of Hilary, &#8216;I am conscious that I owe it to God as <strong>the chief office or duty of my life that my every word (<\/strong><b><em>omnis sermo meus<\/em><\/b><strong>) and perception (<\/strong><b><em>sensus<\/em><\/b><strong>) should speak of Him<\/strong>.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 0.8em\">-St. Thomas Aquinas, <em>Summa contra Gentiles<\/em>, Bk.I, ch. II, in <em>Opera omnia s. Thomae Aquinatis<\/em> (Rome, 1968), p. 6.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All-powerful God, as Saint Hilary defended the divinity of Christ Your Son, give us a deeper understanding of this mystery and help us to profess it in all truth. &nbsp; Saint Hilary of Poitiers (315-368) was a leading defender of the Church against the Arian heresy. 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