"The Eucharist is the sacrament of love:
it signifies love, it produces love." - St Thomas Aquinas
"Almighty and
Eternal God, behold I come to the Sacrament of Your
only-begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. As one
sick, I come to the Physician of life; unclean, to the Fountain of mercy; blind, to the Light
of eternal splendor; poor and needy, to the Lord of
heaven and earth.
Therefore, I beg of You, through
Your infinite mercy and generosity, heal my weakness, wash my uncleanness, give
light to my blindness, enrich my poverty, and clothe
my nakedness.
May I thus receive the Bread of
Angels, the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords, with such reverence and humility,
contrition and devotion, purity and faith, purpose and intention, as shall aid
my soul's salvation ..."
St Thomas
Aquinas
Italy ~
1225-1274
Dominican
monk
Theologian,
philosopher, professor
Prolific
writer, Hymn composer
Doctor of the
Church
FEAST DAY -
January 28
(Happy Feast Day, Fr
Howe!)
"Material food first
changes into the one who eats it, and then, as a consequence, restores to him
lost strength and increases his vitality. Spiritual
food, on the other hand, changes the person who eats it into
itself. Thus the effect proper to this
Sacrament is the conversion of a man into Christ, so that he may no longer
live, but Christ lives in him; consequently, it has the double effect of restoring the spiritual strength
he had lost by his sins and defects, and of increasing the strength of his
virtues."
~ St Thomas Aquinas,
"Beware the man of one book." - St Thomas
Aquinas
St Thomas Aquinas, pray for us!
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