He loved us first

Treasures of Our Faith with Deacon Richard Vehige · Dec 15, 2025 · 6m

On Monday of the Third Week of Advent our Church invites us to first read and reflect on a passage from the book of the prophet Isaiah (30: 18-26) entitled "The promise of future happiness". Our treasure, which follows, is from a discourse On the Contemplation of God by William of Saint Thierry, abbot.

William of Saint Thierry was a theologian and mystic, and so called from the monastery of which he was abbot. He was born at Liège about 1085. William came of a noble family, and made his studies at the Benedictine Monastery of Saint Nicaise at Reims, together with his brother Simon. Here both…