Slowly realizing that the shadow of St. Thomas Aquinas grows larger in my life with every passing year that I'm unknowingly formed by Thomism in Catholic Studies
"We have captured around 200 Russian soldiers, some around 19 years old. Not trained at all. Badly equipped." Ukraninan Major General Borys Kremenetsky says. "We allow them to call their parents. Parents completely surprised."
Two weeks into the semester and Thomas Aquinas is one of the most life-giving and engaging classes I've ever taken. My understanding is straw. Am I a Thomist yet??
@feliixculpaa Santa Cecilia in Trastavere – visit her tomb, see beautiful artwork, and there's a crypt below
Also stop at St. Catherine's across from the Ang – there's Adoration and American sisters who serve college students :)
@nickpumper He also had a big devotion to Bl. Pier Giorgio, who also died at 24… God’s Providence is so beautiful and mysterious. I can’t wait for Heaven
My friend Bailey died a year ago today. Over the past year, his intercession in my life has been a radically convicting witness to the communion of saints. God is good.
Please say a prayer for all of Bailey’s loved ones today.
@nickpumper Wow that’s so beautiful! I think I really experienced Bailey’s intercession this year in all the craziness of graduation and discerning God’s plan for my life..It definitely helped to have a friend in Heaven who’s been through all of that with FOCUS discernment & missionary work
It’s that time of year again when every parish ever is posting about vocations awareness and the need to discern.
I’d like to shout from the rooftops that discernment 👏🏻 is 👏🏻 not 👏🏻 linear 👏🏻 and that’s okay.
Thinking about how my relationships with the saints and deceased loved ones are only made stronger in the beatific vision. Heaven is far more alive than here. I love the Church.
One of the wealthiest men in all human history remains so unfulfilled by the material environs his riches can procure for him that he devotes his mind to escaping the material world entirely. It feels too much like a parable to be real.