Abraham’s servant, sent by him into Mesopotamia, bringeth from thence Rebecca, who is married to Isaac.
Abraham trusted in God’s kindness and goodness to prepare all things.
“Have confidence, Abraham is saying, and depart. I am convinced that the One who has demonstrated such great kindness in my regard will add this to his former blessings and send his angel before you. He will personally prepare the way before you; he will also personally make the woman known to you; you will take her and return. But should it happen—perish the thought—that she refuses to accompany you, you will be discharged from the obligation of the oath. ‘Nevertheless don’t take my son there.’ You see, I have no doubt that the Lord will take care of you. Showing how he trusted in God’s power, Abraham forbade the servant to conduct Isaac there. Then, after he had given detailed instructions to the servant and relieved him of concern (the servant, after all, was afraid he would be convicted of perjury if he failed to discharge his command), ‘he placed his hand under his thigh,’ the text goes on, ‘and gave him his oath on this matter,’ that he would not take Isaac there.” (4) -St. John Chrysostom
Abraham prefigured God the father in search for the Catholic church as a spouse for His only begotten son.
“Now, dearly beloved, let us briefly see, as far as we can, what these facts mean. When blessed Abraham directed his servant to take a wife for his son, he portrayed an image of God the Father. Just as when he offered the boy as a holocaust, he then presented an image of God the Father, so also his servant signified the words of prophecy. For this reason Abraham sent his servant into a distant land to take a wife for his son, because God the Father intended to send his prophetic word throughout the world to search for the Catholic church as a spouse for his only begotten Son.” (4) -St. Caesarius
Wisdom, knowledge and grace is given to those who draw from the living waters of Christ’s word and His Church.
“And so Isaac is good and true, for he is full of grace and a fountain of joy. To that fountain came Rebekah to fill her water jar. For Scripture says that ‘going down to the fountain she filled her water jar and came up.’ And so the church or the soul went down to the fountain of wisdom to fill its own vessel and draw up the teachings of pure wisdom, which the Jews did not wish to draw from the flowing fountain. Listen to him as he says who that fountain is. ‘They have abandoned me, the fountain of living water.’ The soul of the prophets ran thirsting to this fountain, even as David says, ‘My soul has thirsted after the living God,’ that he might fill his thirst with the richness of the knowledge of God and might wash away the blood of foolishness with watering of spiritual streams. Isaac, or the Soul. There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved.” (4) -St. Thomas Aquinas
“I will go peaceably and firmly to the Catholic Church: for if Faith is so important to our salvation, I will seek it where true Faith first began, seek it among those who received it from God Himself.”
-St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
Women's Prayer Group In Christ 