Lord, give me this change you require, for no one else can. Mt 22,12 My friend, how is it that you came in here without a wedding garment? Amíce, quómodo huc intrásti, non habens vestem nuptiálem? Amigo, ¿cómo has entrado aquí sin traje de fiesta?

St John Henry Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua, Chapter V: (The Roman Office does not attribute its translations. Here, interestingly, we have an original English text translated into Latin and Spanish. Admirable effort.) «Also, I consider that, gradually and in the course of ages, Catholic inquiry has taken certain definite shapes, and has thrown itself into the form of a science, with a method and a phraseology of its own, under the intellectual handling of great minds, such as St Athanasius, St Augustine, and St Thomas; and I feel no temptation at all to break in pieces the great legacy of thought thus committed to us for these latter days.» Existimanda est porro, ut opinor, Catholicae fidei investigatio paulatim per saecula species certas et varias assumpsisse, in formam scientiae se exstruxisse, ratione et locutione sibi propriis a doctissimis sicut Athanasio, Augustino atque Thoma de Aquino evolutis, se ornasse; neque talem hereditatem intellectualem nobis his posterioribus diebus legatam ullo modo dirumpere vellem. Además, considero que gradualmente, en el curso de los tiempos, la investigación católica ha tomado ciertas formas definitivas y se ha convertido en una ciencia con un método y lenguaje propio, bajo la dirección intelectual de los más doctos, como san Atanasio, san Agustín y santo Tomás; y de ninguna manera querría romper tal herencia intelectual que ha llegado hasta nuestros días.