“In an instant, I glimpsed that the doctrine of the Catholic Church was the absolute truth about God, about His intimate life, and about man in his origin and supernatural destiny. I saw in an instant that this was not a truth that is relative to the present state of our knowledge but, rather an absolute truth that will not pass away, though it will shine with ever-increasing radiance until we see God facie ad faciem [“face to face”]. A ray of light made the Lord’s words shine in my eyes: ‘Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.’ I understood that this truth must bear fruit like a grain of wheat in good soil…Gratia est semen gloriae.” Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑇ℎ𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑐 𝑅𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑁𝑜𝑢𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒 𝑇ℎé𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑖𝑒