January 2012
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Novena to St. Thomas Aquinas
Ninth Day: St. Thomas, patron of students “For in every way you have been enriched in him, in speech and knowledge of every kind” (1 Cor 1:5).
St. Thomas, God called you to spend most of your life in academic pursuits, first as a student, and then as a professor of theology. In your work as a teacher, you desired to help your students apply what they learned to their lives, in order...
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“As long as we live, we fight, and as long as we are fighting, that is a sign...”
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Novena to St. Thomas Aquinas
Eighth Day: St. Thomas, teacher of prayer “Devote yourselves to prayer, keeping alert in it with thanksgiving” (Col 4:2).
St. Thomas, you knew that prayer is the source of wisdom and you spent long hours in conversation with God. Prayer became your very life.Whenever you pondered over a problem in theology, you turned to prayer to seek God’s enlightenment. Now in heaven you see...
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“Don’t be anxious about what you have, but about what you are.”
– Pope St. Gregory the Great
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Novena to St. Thomas Aquinas
Seventh Day: St. Thomas, defender of the Church “…the Church of the living God, the pillar and bulwark of the truth” (1 Tim 3:15).
St. Thomas, from your youth you learned to love the Church, your spiritual home. In your teaching, you sought to explain and defend the doctrine of the Church, making it known through your writings. You understood that true wisdom means to let...
Novena to St. Thomas Aquinas
Sixth Day: St. Thomas, filled with charity “Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth” (1 Cor 1 3 :4-6).
St. Thomas, you were noted during your life for the charity you showed to others. During debates at the...
Big List of Student Discounts →
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Novena to St. Thomas Aquinas
Fifth Day: St. Thomas, afire with love for the Blessed Sacrament “So Jesus said to them, ‘Very truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you”’ (Jn 6:53).
St. Thomas, you had a great love for Jesus in the Holy Eucharist and spent many hours in adoration before the Blessed Sacrament. You once said that you learned...
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Novena to St. Thomas Aquinas
Fourth Day: St. Thomas, devoted to truth “But speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ” (Eph 4:15).
St. Thomas, you devoted your life to seeking the truth and explaining it to others. You dedicated your mind to God, and used it to probe the Word of God more deeply. Your gifts as a theologian and philosopher make you stand out as...
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Third Day: St. Thomas, example of humility
“All who exalt themselves will be humbled, and all who humble themselves will be exalted” (Mt 23:12).
St. Thomas, when you were a young student some of your classmen called you the “dumb ox.” Although you were more intelligent than all of them, you bore their insults patiently without retaliating. You were endowed with a keen...
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Second Day: St. Thomas, lover of purity “For God did not call us to impurity but in holiness” (1 Thes 4:7).
St. Thomas, you had a great esteem for the virtue of purity.When your family tried to deter you from entering the Dominicans by sending a woman to lead you into sin, you resisted the temptation and determined to consecrate your chastity to God forever.
Today we are immersed in...
“Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is...”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
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Novena to St. Thomas Aquinas
First Day: St. Thomas, called by God
“Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me” (Mt 10:37).
St. Thomas, as a young man you became convinced that God was calling you to religious life. Although your family was opposed to it, you were determined to follow God’s call. Even when your brothers...
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Novena to St. Thomas Aquinas
Novena Prayer (to be prayed after the proper prayer for each day of the novena):
St. Thomas Aquinas, patron of students and Catholic schools, I thank God for the gifts of light and knowledge he bestowed on you, which you used to build up the Church in love. I thank God, too, for the wealth and richness of theological teaching you left in your writings. Not only were you a great teacher, you lived...
“Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them...”
– Orison Swett Marden (via thelittlephilosopher)
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“One may suffer a world of demons for the sake of an angel.”
– Madame du Pompadour, The Girl in the Fireplace (Doctor Who)
“We’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.”
– ~Japanese Proverb (via becauselifesbeautiful)
“When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build...”
– Chinese proverb (via thelittlephilosopher)
New Vocation Themed Shirts for Vocation Awareness... →
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It’s Vocation Awareness Week, and we’ve got two new shirts to release for the occasion. You’ll find the two new shirts below. We here at BTS would like to remind you that we are soon approaching confirmation season, and these shirts or some of our other gear make great gifts for your special confirmandi.
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Top Ten Vocation Videos (#7, #6 and #5)
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And to continue the countdown here are number 7, 6 and 5!
7. Ordinary Men…Sacred Calling (Dominican Friars)
6. Married Life (Yes it’s a vocation!)
5. Single Life (Yes it’s also a vocation!)
Tune in tomorrow for the next three!
“An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an...”
– G.K. Chesterton
“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same...”
– Winston Churchill
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