Full Circle

“Issuing from the Primary Principle, creatures accomplish a sort of circuit, a gyratory movement, such that all things when they tend to their proper end are returning to the Principle whence they came forth ... We were created by the Son and by the Holy Spirit; and hence it is by them that we are brought back to our end.”

~St. Thomas Aquinas

“Everywhere in this world we notice action ... departure and return; going away and coming back; separation and reunion. The separation always looks forward to union, which is creative. All this is simply an image of the Blessed Trinity in the activity of creatures.

... First, God creates the universe; that is something like a separation. Creatures, by following the natural law implanted in them by God, reach their perfection, become like him, and go back to him. Intelligent creatures [human beings] love him in the conscious manner; through this love they unite themselves more and more closely with him, and so find their way back to him.”

~St. Maximilian Kolbe