Appropriately, the Memorial of St. Thomas Aquinas falls in Catholic Schools Week for he represents not only scholarship, but holiness, which is the fruit and purpose of the examination of and search for truth. It is said that Jesus once appeared to him saying, "you have written well of me, Thomas, what can I give you in return?" Thomas answered, "You, Lord,." Indeed, he had a vision on the feast of St. Nicholas, which caused him then to look upon all his writings as "straw", and devote himself to prayer and contemplation until he died at the age of 50.
Nevertheless, the Church and the world owe much to the "Angelic Doctor", as he is known, for the magnificent legacy he left us in his Summa Theologiae (summary of theology) and other writings, including the hymns we sing at Mass and Benediction: Lauda Sion, (Sequence for Corpus Christi), O Salutaris, and Tantum Ergo (the last two verses of Pange Lingua)
We pray that he might influence us today not only to continue to search for and deepen our understanding of the Truth, and of our faith, but also to help us to use our education to bring us closer to God and to one another.
Bro. Rene
Note: A stunning wooden carved statue of St. Thomas Aquinas, given by his family in memory of Matthew Navien, a Central Catholic graduate, who was killed in an accident by a drunken driver, hangs on a pillar in the library of Central Catholic High School, Lawrence, Massachusetts
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