The spirit, as a force which has come from God, knows God, seeks God, and in Him alone finds rest. This is expressed in the universal dissatisfaction with everything created. What does this dissatisfaction signify? It signifies that nothing created is capable of satisfying the spirit.

In the mental aspect, we have confusion, scattering and wandering of thoughts, while in the desiring aspect, we have inconstancy, disorder, and selfish desires, and we are preoccupied with them.

“Concerning the teachings of the Church, whether publicly proclaimed (kerygma) or reserved to members of the household of faith (dogmata), we have received some from written sources, while others have been given to us secretly, through apostolic tradition...For instance (to take the first and most common example), where is the written teaching that we should sign with the sign of the Cross those w