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How Many Friends Should I Have? ‘A Lot,’ says Thomas Aquinas | Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, O.P.

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The Foundation of Friendship

Aquinas calls it communicatio in some good that establishes a relation between the two persons before they even begin to speak to each other. There's nothing that we have naturally that we can turn to God and say, here I am be my friend. It's absurd," he says. "God turns to us, even in our sin, and offers us a share in his happiness"

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