For many reasons the Gospels can be seen as resembling a honeycomb. According to the Song of Songs, the “taste” of our souls’ spiritual Bridegroom, Who is fairer in beauty than the sons of men (cf. Ps. 45:2), is “sweet” and “altogether desirable” (S. of S. 5:16; cf. 2:3). To the soul betrothed to Him, on the other hand, the Songwriter says through the immortal Spirit of wisdom, “Thy lips, 0 my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue” (S. of S. 4:11). Clearly all the Evangelists are like this: their words convey a story which can be compared to the wax of the honeycomb, and their deeper moral meaning, contained within or openly set forth by them, can be likened to honey and milk, since it is appropriate not just to the perfect, but also to the imperfect as spiritual milk (1 Pet. 2:2). The Song refers to the lips of the spiritual bride shedding drops…

Vision, deification and union with God are the things which offer man existential knowledge of God. Then man possesses real knowledge of God. The deifying gift of the Holy Spirit, which is a mysterious light, transforms into divine light those who have attained it and not only fills them with eternal light, “but also grants them a knowledge and a life appropriate to God” (3,1,35;CWS p.89). In this state a person possesses knowledge of God.

Both love and duty today fashion my homily for your charity. It is not only that I wish, because of my love for you, and because I am obliged by the sacred canons, to bring to your God-loving ears a saving word and thus to nourish your souls, but if there be any among those things that bind by obligation and love and can be narrated with praise for the Church, it is the great deed of the Ever-Virgin Mother of God.