Happy Feast Of St. Thomas Aquinas!

[Resurrexi]

Deus, qui Ecclesiam tuam beati Thomae Confessoris tui atque Doctoris mira eruditione clarificas, et sancta operatione foecundas: da nobis, quaesumus, et quae docuit, intellectu conspicere, et quae egit, imitatione complere. Per Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen.

O God, who dost enlighten Thy Church through the wonderful instruction of blessed Thomas, Thy Confessor and Doctor, and makest her fruitful through his holy labor, grant us, we beseech Thee, both to contemplate with understanding what he taught and to imitate what he did. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.


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Edited March 7, 2010 by Resurrexi

[laetitia crucis]

Amen!



*throws confetti*

There is much rejoicing to be had!

And it's Sunday.

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Cake and ice cream for everyone!!!

[Saint Therese]

That sure does look good.

[KeenanParkerII]

Happy Feast of St. Thomas!! May we all be particularly intelligent, philosophical and speak in standard formula all day.

1. It is Sunday.
2. On Sundays I must go to Mass.
3. I must go to Mass!

[zunshynn]

Hey, he didn't always talk like that!

[quote]Adoro te devote, latens Deitas,
Quæ sub his figuris vere latitas;
Tibi se cor meum totum subjicit,
Quia te contemplans totum deficit.

Visus, tactus, gustus in te fallitur,
Sed auditu solo tuto creditur.
Credo quidquid dixit Dei Filius;
Nil hoc verbo veritátis verius.

In cruce latebat sola Deitas,
At hic latet simul et Humanitas,
Ambo tamen credens atque confitens,
Peto quod petivit latro pœnitens.

Plagas, sicut Thomas, non intueor:
Deum tamen meum te confiteor.
Fac me tibi semper magis credere,
In te spem habere, te diligere.

O memoriale mortis Domini!
Panis vivus, vitam præstans homini!
Præsta meæ menti de te vívere,
Et te illi semper dulce sapere.

Pie Pelicane, Jesu Domine,
Me immundum munda tuo sanguine:
Cujus una stilla salvum facere
Totum mundum quit ab omni scelere.

Jesu, quem velatum nunc aspicio,
Oro, fiat illud quod tam sitio:
Ut te revelata cernens facie,
Visu sim beátus tuæ gloriæ. Amen[/quote]



[quote] Godhead here in hiding, whom I do adore,
Masked by these bare shadows, shape and nothing more,
See, Lord, at Thy service low lies here a heart
Lost, all lost in wonder at the God thou art.

Seeing, touching, tasting are in thee deceived:
How says trusty hearing? that shall be believed;
What God's Son has told me, take for truth I do;
Truth Himself speaks truly or there's nothing true.

On the cross Thy godhead made no sign to men,
Here Thy very manhood steals from human ken:
Both are my confession, both are my belief,
And I pray the prayer of the dying thief.

I am not like Thomas, wounds I cannot see,
But can plainly call thee Lord and God as he;
Let me to a deeper faith daily nearer move,
Daily make me harder hope and dearer love.

O thou our reminder of Christ crucified,
Living Bread, the life of us for whom he died,
Lend this life to me then: feed and feast my mind,
There be thou the sweetness man was meant to find.

Bring the tender tale true of the Pelican;
Bathe me, Jesu Lord, in what Thy bosom ran
Blood whereof a single drop has power to win
All the world forgiveness of its world of sin.

Jesu, whom I look at shrouded here below,
I beseech thee send me what I thirst for so,
Some day to gaze on thee face to face in light
And be blest for ever with Thy glory's sight. Amen.[/quote]

[Ephrem Augustine]

I thought his feast was on january 28?

[Resurrexi]

[quote name='Ephrem Augustine' date='07 March 2010 - 12:02 PM' timestamp='1267981345' post='2068049']
I thought his feast was on january 28?
[/quote]

In the traditional Roman calendar, his feast is on March 7th.

[laetitia crucis]

I think it's nice to celebrate BOTH days.

I mean, Thomas is just THAT fantabulous, isn't he?

[laetitia crucis]

This link (from the English Dominican Friars) has a [b]great[/b] summary on St. Thomas Aquinas:

[url="http://godzdogz.op.org/2010_01_01_archive.html"]Our Brother, the Dumb Ox![/url] (Just scroll down to 28 January 2010.)

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[KeenanParkerII]

[quote]Hey, he didn't always talk like that![/quote]

True! Some of his prayers are amazingg. I'm pretty sure the one in my profile is one of his.

Edited March 7, 2010 by KeenanParkerII

[Totus Tuus]

[quote name='Ephrem Augustine' date='07 March 2010 - 12:02 PM' timestamp='1267981345' post='2068049']
I thought his feast was on january 28?
[/quote]

That's when I celebrated it. I follow the normal calendar

[goldenchild17]

[quote name='Totus Tuus' date='07 March 2010 - 12:21 PM' timestamp='1267986105' post='2068082']
That's when I celebrated it. I follow the normal calendar
[/quote]

yes. There's nothing wrong with celebrating more than once (especially for someone like Aquinas). But unless you reject the current calendar it would be wrong to say that today is the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas. Not to mention I think it undermines (unintentionally of course but still) the respect due to the saint/s honored on this day in the current calendar. Today that would be Sts. Perpetua and Felicity - at least I think so, I'm still trying to get used to the new calendar.

[url="Catholic.org March 7 Sts. Felicity and Perpetua"]http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=48[/url]

[url="Catholic Encyclopedia - Sts. Felicitas and Perpetua"]http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06029a.htm[/url]

Edited March 7, 2010 by goldenchild17

[goldenchild17]

from the first link above:

"Meanwhile Felicity was also in torment. It was against the law for pregnant women to be executed. To kill a child in the womb was shedding innocent and sacred blood. Felicity was afraid that she would not give birth before the day set for their martyrdom and her companions would go on their journey without her. Her friends also didn't want to leave so "good a comrade" behind."

Interesting, and sad, that killing an unborn child was seen as a crime even in by the evil Roman leaders who martyred all the early Christians, and yet no such consideration is given today by a supposedly much more 'advanced' society.

[Resurrexi]

[quote name='goldenchild17' date='07 March 2010 - 01:40 PM' timestamp='1267987226' post='2068091']
But unless you reject the current calendar it would be wrong to say that today is the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas. [/quote]

No, it isn't. The calendar for the extraordinary form is just as much a current calendar for the Roman Rite as the calendar for the ordinary form. Those who attend Mass and say the Breviary in the extraordinary form celebrate St. Thomas' feast today. Today is the Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas.

[quote name='goldenchild17' date='07 March 2010 - 01:40 PM' timestamp='1267987226' post='2068091']
Not to mention I think it undermines (unintentionally of course but still) the respect due to the saint/s honored on this day in the current calendar. Today that would be Sts. Perpetua and Felicity - at least I think so, I'm still trying to get used to the new calendar.[/quote]

As I stated above, the 1962 calendar is a current calendar in the Roman Rite. Celebrating St. Thomas Aquinas today does not in any way undermine the respect due to SS. Perpetua and Felicity, as I celebrated their feast yesterday. Also, even if I had not celebrated their feast yesterday, celebrating St. Thomas Aquinas today no more would no more undermine the honor due to them than celebrating today the saint whose feast it is on the Byzantine calendar.

[goldenchild17]

fair enough. I still think it would've been appropriate to distinguish in your first post (and or thread title) that you were speaking of the traditional calendar. If we hadn't discussed it there may have been some readers who hadn't checked and thought you were referring to the current calendar. Then they may have missed out on reading about two other saints, great in their own right.

carry on

Edited March 7, 2010 by goldenchild17