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Our Lord’s Languages of Love, by Michael Pakaluk – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Our Lord’s Languages of Love, by Michael Pakaluk

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The Virgin of Humility by Fra Angelico, c. 1425 [Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain]

By Michael Pakaluk, The Catholic Thing, May 22, 2025

Michael Pakaluk, an Aristotle scholar and Ordinarius of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas, is a professor in the Busch School of Business at the Catholic University of America. He lives in Hyattsville, MD with his wife Catherine, also a professor at the Busch School, and their eight children. …

We say that “prayer is conversation with God,” but that’s not strictly correct. Prayer to God is conversation with God. Prayer to a saint is conversation with a saint. So, rather, prayer is conversation. It gets its name from just one thing we can do in a conversation, which is to ask (Latin, precare).

Being an interlocutor in a conversation is hardly an incommunicable trait of divinity. Therefore, Protestants make a gross blunder when they accuse Catholics who pray to Mary of idolatry, simply because they converse with her. There is no reason why the only person in Heaven one can have “a personal relationship” with should be Jesus….

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