For Bonaventure, to eat spiritually is to approach eating the Eucharist both with faith and ultimately with the affection of charity in one’s heart.
Thomas A. Piolata, O.F.M.Cap.
Thomas A. Piolata, O.F.M.Cap., is a friar of the Capuchin Province of St. Augustine. Currently, he is completing a doctorate in theology on St. Bonaventure's pneumatology at Durham University (UK) and the Pontifical Antonianum University (Rome).