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SUMMARY:Saint Thomas Aquinas
DESCRIPTION:Saint Thomas Aquinas\nSaint of the Day for January 28\n( 1225 – March 7\, 1274)\nClick to hear audio clip ►\nSaint Thomas Aquinas’ Story\nBy universal consent\, Thomas Aquinas is the preeminent spokesman of the Catholic tradition of reason and of divine revelation. He is one of the great teachers of the medieval Catholic Church\, honored with the titles Doctor of the Church and Angelic Doctor. \nAt five he was given to the Benedictine monastery at Monte Cassino in his parents’ hopes that he would choose that way of life and eventually became abbot. In 1239\, he was sent to Naples to complete his studies. It was here that he was first attracted to Aristotle’s philosophy. \nBy 1243\, Thomas abandoned his family’s plans for him and joined the Dominicans\, much to his mother’s dismay. On her order\, Thomas was captured by his brother and kept at home for over a year. \nOnce free\, he went to Paris and then to Cologne\, where he finished his studies with Albert the Great. He held two professorships at Paris\, lived at the court of Pope Urban IV\, directed the Dominican schools at Rome and Viterbo\, combated adversaries of the mendicants\, as well as the Averroists\, and argued with some Franciscans about Aristotelianism. \nHis greatest contribution to the Catholic Church is his writings. The unity\, harmony and continuity of faith and reason\, of revealed and natural human knowledge\, pervades his writings. One might expect Thomas\, as a man of the gospel\, to be an ardent defender of revealed truth. But he was broad enough\, deep enough\, to see the whole natural order as coming from God the Creator\, and to see reason as a divine gift to be highly cherished. \nThe Summa Theologiae\, his last and\, unfortunately\, uncompleted work\, deals with the whole of Catholic theology. He stopped work on it after celebrating Mass on December 6\, 1273. When asked why he stopped writing\, he replied\, “I cannot go on…. All that I have written seems to me like so much straw compared to what I have seen and what has been revealed to me.” He died March 7\, 1274. \n\nReflection\nWe can look to Thomas Aquinas as a towering example of Catholicism in the sense of broadness\, universality\, and inclusiveness. We should be determined anew to exercise the divine gift of reason in us\, our power to know\, learn\, and understand. At the same time we should thank God for the gift of his revelation\, especially in Jesus Christ. \n\nSaint Thomas Aquinas is the Patron Saint of:\nCatholic Schools\nColleges\nSchools\nStudents
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