vee Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 Friday January 28th is the pheastday of my phavorite Dominican saint (they only have three anyway) Thomas "Im not fat, Im rotund" Aquinas. Post your phavorite Thomas quotes, pics, songs and so on. I'll start. Here is Adoro te Devote. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMK5MnZaoks[/media] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeresaBenedicta Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 I get to celebrate his feast day at my home parish, St. Thomas Aquinas parish!!! As a philosophy student, I always loved this quote: "The study of philosophy does not mean to learn what others have thought but to learn what is the truth of things." I have many favorites. More to come! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AudreyGrace Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 I LOVE SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! "Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good." "How can we live in harmony? First we need to know that we are all madly in love with the same God." "Love takes up where knowledge leaves off." "Reason in man is rather like God in the world." "Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chamomile Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 Vee already posted the best, in my opinion But also... [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74rxEWEektY[/media] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominicansoul Posted January 28, 2011 Share Posted January 28, 2011 St. Thomas Aquinas, Priest & Doctor of the Church (c. 1225-1274) God is the most lovable of all things, and meditation on God's nature is the strongest incentive there is to love and devotion; but because our minds are not strong in themselves, we need to be led by knowledge, and so to love God by way of the world we sense, and above all by thinking of Christ the man, so that by seeing God with our eyes we can be lifted up to love what we cannot see. - St. Thomas Aquinas.i love him...i don't understand a word he says...but i love him... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AudreyGrace Posted January 28, 2011 Share Posted January 28, 2011 those he went to school with called him a "dumb ox" because he moved so slowly. ha! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominicansoul Posted January 28, 2011 Share Posted January 28, 2011 (i need to read, "St. Thomas Aquinas, O.P. for Dummies") Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vee Posted January 28, 2011 Author Share Posted January 28, 2011 Another hymn by Thomas I like from youtube... The procession, exposition, incensing of the altar and singing of "Oh Salutaris Hostia" in preparation for the Litany of the Sacred Heart and the Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. Filmed at Mother Angelica's Our Lady of the Angels Monastery in Hanceville, Alabama. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx33NiZO8Lc[/media] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dUSt Posted January 28, 2011 Share Posted January 28, 2011 Here's the collage I made of the Dumb Ox way back in highschool! [img]http://www.phatmass.com/_images/wallpaper/thomas800.jpg[/img] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
franciscanheart Posted January 28, 2011 Share Posted January 28, 2011 [quote name='TeresaBenedicta' timestamp='1296161703' post='2205219'] I get to celebrate his feast day at my home parish, St. Thomas Aquinas parish!!! As a philosophy student, I always loved this quote: "The study of philosophy does not mean to learn what others have thought but to learn what is the truth of things." I have many favorites. More to come! [/quote] Me too! [quote name='AudreyGrace' timestamp='1296162544' post='2205235'] I LOVE SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! "Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good." "How can we live in harmony? First we need to know that we are all madly in love with the same God." "Love takes up where knowledge leaves off." "Reason in man is rather like God in the world." "Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine." [/quote] Me too!! [quote name='dominicansoul' timestamp='1296226309' post='2205705'] St. Thomas Aquinas, Priest & Doctor of the Church (c. 1225-1274) God is the most lovable of all things, and meditation on God's nature is the strongest incentive there is to love and devotion; but because our minds are not strong in themselves, we need to be led by knowledge, and so to love God by way of the world we sense, and above all by thinking of Christ the man, so that by seeing God with our eyes we can be lifted up to love what we cannot see. - St. Thomas Aquinas. i love him...i don't understand a word he says...but i love him... [/quote] Love that. [quote name='dUSt' timestamp='1296229297' post='2205732'] Here's the collage I made of the Dumb Ox way back in highschool! [img]http://www.phatmass.com/_images/wallpaper/thomas800.jpg[/img] [/quote] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fides quarens intellectum Posted January 28, 2011 Share Posted January 28, 2011 i don't have any quotes on-hand, but i can still show some appreciation: it's thanks to reading some of his works that i began to pull out of atheism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sacredheartandbloodofjesus Posted January 28, 2011 Share Posted January 28, 2011 [size="4"]Inflexible as he was in the defense of truth, his students were often astonished that he would bear personal attacks so placidly. A considerable magnanimity enabled him to regard many things as trifles. Of keen sensibilities, his nature would have inclined him to irony; he conquered this by meekness. He never meddled in the affairs of others, hated rash judgment, and preferred to appear naive rather than readily believe evil -- the perfection of the speculative intellect, we know, being unharmed by an error in a contingent matter. One day a Friar in a jovial mood cries out: "Friar Thomas, come see the flying ox!" Friar Thomas goes over to the window. The other laughs. "It is better," the Saint says to him, "to believe that an ox can fly than to think that a religious can lie."[/size] By Jacques Maritain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa Posted January 28, 2011 Share Posted January 28, 2011 [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oXR_8Oxfso [/media] Wonderful Just got back from my church (St. Thomas Aquinus) to celebrate his feast day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeresaBenedicta Posted January 28, 2011 Share Posted January 28, 2011 Mass in two hours, at St. Thomas Aquinas parish. I am celebrating by making breakfast. And then after Mass, making a holy hour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregorius Posted January 28, 2011 Share Posted January 28, 2011 [img]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cQ2xhpZfenk/TS9fyFojQ1I/AAAAAAAAQQU/G6e2vul5ZB4/s1600/priverno%2Bskull%2Bof%2Baquinas%2Bviii.JPG[/img] St. Thomas Aquinas' skull. Just think, behind that piece of bone once rested one of the greatest minds in history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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