Need help decoding catechism footnotes

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Does anyone know of a good place to learn how to read the footnotes in the catechism. I am having issues with figuring out “St. Thomas Aquinas, Sent. II, Prol.” What exactly is Sent II? I take it prol is prologue. Any help would be much appreciated. I love Thomas’ work and wanted to see the source for this footnote.
 
I don’t know what edition of the Catechism you’re using, but if you look at the back of the book you’ll see that the indexes take up the last 100 pages or thereabouts. One of these indexes lists ecclesiastical authors in alphabetical order. You’ll find St Thomas Aquinas nearly at the end of this particular index, under the letter T. His works are listed under their Latin titles, in this case “In Libros Sententiarum.”
 
An English translation of the reference by St. Thomas Aquinas is Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, Book 2, Prologue.

Although an English translation of some of his Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard is available online (here), the Prologue to Book 2 does not appear to be available online.

The Latin phrase quoted in the Catechism in paragraph 293 is “Aperta enim manu clave amoris, creaturae prodierunt”. A link to the work and phrase in Latin, here.
 
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Todd was quicker on the detective work than me. 🙂

The CCC has an “abbreviations” page towards the back with some of the main abbreviations used. This one does not appear there.

What I do is go to the Index of Citations in the back (presuming you have the big green Catechism that includes this—some of the smaller pocket editions of the CCC don’t have it). It is really super handy. It goes through all the books of Scripture, Church documents, and finally “Ecclesiastical Writers” (i.e. the saints). Go to “T” and you can find St. Thomas Aquinas and a list of every place he is cited in the Catechism.

Since your reference was from a footnote in paragraph 293, you just scan the right side until you find that paragraph number. In this case, it appears under the work In Libros sententiarum. From there, my next step is usually to Google the work to see if I can find the full text somewhere on the web.
Genesis315 said:
There’s a great book called “The Companion to the Catechism of the Catholic Church” which provides the text of every footnote in the Catechism, whether the citation is to a single bible verse or a whole papal encyclical.
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It is a great book, but it actually doesn’t contain every footnote. And the reference in the OP is one of those that are not included.
 
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Joe_5859 said:
It is a great book, but it actually doesn’t contain every footnote. And the reference in the OP is one of those that are not included.
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That’s disappointing. I’ve actually only ever used the preview and always found what I was looking for (if the page was available that day on google books). Oh well!
 
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Genesis315 said:
That’s disappointing. I’ve actually only ever used the preview and always found what I was looking for (if the page was available that day on google books). Oh well!
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That was the first place I thought to look, too. I have a copy and checked and it goes straight from paragraph 292 to 295 (with nothing for 293). I never realized it didn’t include every citation until just now. I always assumed it did as well.
 
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