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What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes? And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down: And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they...

Cardinal Stafford on the Eucharistic Face of Christ SANTA PAULA, California, JUNE 12, 2003 (Zenit.org).- Here are excerpts from the homily delivered by Cardinal James Francis Stafford, president of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, at the commencement Mass of Thomas Aquinas College on May 17. Homily at Thomas Aquinas College J. Francis Cardinal Stafford "The Founding Document of Thomas Aquinas College," written in 1969, states that "the proper satisfaction of wonder is knowledge of causes. But causes are of two sorts: a cause may simply be primary within some particular order, or it may be primary without qualification, a...