The Feast of St Thomas Aquinas

 

Happy Feast of St Thomas Aquinas 

On 28th Jan 2025 

St Thomas Aquinas Said: To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.’

Oh holy angelic Doctor, 

You were a wise and intellect of the Holy Spirit

A true teacher of the Church

When the Church were in turmoil 

Your teaching has enlightened the people, the Clergy and religious 

The youth, the children, the wise and the old, praised your wisdom

Your wisdom has been taught to the seminarians in many Schools of Wisdom

You wrote and sang the beautiful hymns for Our Church

Which we are singing in the Churches, all over the world

You said ‘To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.’

You sang this song of adoration with the angelic choirs

TANTUM ergo Sacramentum

Veneremur cernui:

Et antiquum documentum

Novo cedat ritui:

Praestet fides supplementum

Sensuum defectui.

Genitori, Genitoque

Laus et iubilatio,

Salus, honor, virtus quoque

Sit et benedictio:

Procedenti ab utroque

Compar sit laudatio.

What a beautiful composition you wrote again to sing along 

1. O salutáris Hóstia,

Quae caeli pandis óstium:

Bella premunt hostília,

Da robur fer auxílium.

2. Uni trinóque Dómino

Sit sempitérna glória,

Qui vitam sine término

Nobis donet in pátria

In the Holy Scripture says: He will display the instruction he has received,

Taking his pride in the Law of the Lord’s covenant. 

Many will praise his intelligence and it will never be forgotten. 

His memory will not disappear, 

Generation after generation his name will live.

Nations will proclaim his wisdom, the assembly will celebrate his praises.

If he lives long, his name will be more glorious than a thousand others, 

And if he dies, that will satisfy him just as well. 

Lord, we thank you, for such wonderful saints brought a great legacy for You

His name will be more glorious than a thousand others, and if he dies, that will satisfy him just as well. 

When he was looked back about his work

And so the vision of the Lord and His immense wisdom  

He said my wisdom is like straw, to be burned not worthy for anything 

At last he said: Never have I said anything against you [Jesus], and if I have done so, 

it is through ignorance, and I am not stubborn in my error. 

If I have taught wrongly concerning this sacrament or the others, 

I submit it to the judgment of the Holy Roman Church, in obedience to which I now leave this life.

But St Thomas Aquinas, your name will be remembered from generations to generations 

The Word of God Sunday

 

The Word of God Sunday

On 26th Jan 2025

Today’s Holy Mass Gospel Reading Luke 1:1-4,​4:14-21

Jesus Said: “No prophet is ever accepted in his own country.”

In the verses Lk 1: 1-4 In today's gospel reading, St. Luke the Evangelist explains in the prologue how he received numerous important insights from Jesus's teachings and the ministry of the Holy Word, as well as some additional insightful interpretations from Jesus's Apostles, disciples, and other witnesses. The writings of the apostles and evangelists, as well as the words of Jesus, form the basis for all of the Gospels, which carry on the mission of salvation that Jesus had anticipated from the start of his earthly life. Every individual is experiencing the power of the Word of God by hearing, reading, contemplating (meditating), and practicing. The Word of God that he preached was conceiving and bringing fruit in the hearts of the peoples. 

Lk 4: 14-21 In these verses St Luke is explaining about the return of Jesus from the desert after his mortification by fasting and contmeplative prayer in penance. Jesus, with the power of the Spirit in him, returned to Galilee; and his reputation spread throughout the countryside. 15 He taught in their synagogues and everyone glorified him. He came from the desert by great power of the Spirit and started spreading Good News by teaching in the Synagogues and in the country side. In a synagogue Jesus stood up with the Scroll of Holy Scriptures and read from the Book of Isiah 61:1-2, This incident has mentioned in Lk 4: 18-19The spirit of the Lord is on me, for he has anointed me to bring the good news to the afflicted. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives, sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, 19 to proclaim a year of favour from the Lord. Jesus is saying his Father anointed him to proclaim the Good News, (the Word of God and he himself is the Word of God and there is no separation of the Word from God and it is the Divine Union of Trinity) to poor captives, blind, deaf and broken hearted, to bring them out of slavery of Satan. Lk 4: 20-29 Then he began to speak to them, ‘This text is being fulfilled today even while you are listening.’This was exactly  happened, which was the prophecy of Isiah. In verse 24 Jesus says: In truth I tell you, no prophet is ever accepted in his own country. When the famine struck Israel, Jesus explained, the prophet Elijah was sent to a widow's home in Sidonia, not to any of the Israelites' homes. In the time of prophet Elisha, Jesus reiterated that God sent him specifically to heal Naaman the Syrian, not any other Israelite. Among all humans, God has no distinction and chooses the most unimportant members of society to display His splendor. The people were incensed when Jesus spoke these things word for word, believing that he was exaggerating by praising himself. Infuriated, the people chased after him and shoved him until he reached a mountainside precipice where they would have thrown him to his death, but he disappeared into the crowd and they were powerless to stop him.