jamiec
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The Saints, like all other creatures, are instrumental causes of the good they do. The Biblical authors are instrumental causes of their writings (as, in their own ways, are all created authors of created writings).Please provide a prayer that states a particular saints was the primary cause and source of a healing.
It is no more wrong to say that a 12th-century Saint works a miracle, than to say that St Paul or Elijah works a miracle: St Francis of Assisi is no more the author of the good God does through him, than the Biblical Saints and Prophets were the authors of the good God does through them.
The only Author of all those good things, is the Tri-Une God. These people are instrumental agents of God, means through whom God the Creator-King brings good things into the world that is His handiwork, for the creatures that are his handiwork. All good things that men on Earth receive, are the work of God, whether through His Saints in heaven, or through his creatures upon Earth.
God is “always” God, & always doing God’s works, always acting as Creator. And sometimes, God “incorporates” created things in His working, so that their lowly created nothingness is made a means by which He acts. The supreme Exemplar of this pattern of Divine Action, is the Incarnate Lord; & the inspiration of Scripture, is like that. The creaturely “sub-mediation” of the Saints, is a mode of this Divine, and in Christ, Theandric, AKA “God-manly”, Action.
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