Will And Association

Si quis fecerit voluntatem Patris mei qui in coelis est, ipse meus frater et soror et mater est? Unde quotidie in oratione Dominica exoramus ut fiat ejus voluntas in nobis super terram, quemadmodum fit et in angelis super caelos. Talis igitur voluntas unum nos cum Deo efficit, et supernis consociat atque consolidat veritati. Ubi prudens animus diligenter intendat, quod non qualitates aut actus eorum juxta mortalitatem expressimus, sed per interpretationes tantum eorumdem nomina, spiritalibus spiritalia comparantes, profectus virtutum et veri intineris incrementa monstravimus. Sanctus Paschasius Radbertus Corbeiensis, Expositio In Evangelium Matthaei, Liber I Source: Migne PL 120.93a

If someone do the will of my Father who is in heaven, is he not my brother and sister and my mother? 1 Whence every day in the Lord's prayer we entreat that His will be done in us on the earth, as it is done with the angels above in the heavens. Therefore such a will makes us one with God, and it associates and establishes us with supernal truth. And here let the prudent soul diligently observe that we have not expressed such qualities and conduct according to the worldly understanding, but grasping these names by comparision of spiritual things with spiritual things, we have shown the advance in virtue and growth in the way of truth. Saint Paschasius Radbertus, Commentary On The Gospel of Saint Matthew, Book 3 1 Mt 12.50