If the print is too small for you to read
Recently someone said the print on the flocknote was too small for them to read articles. After a quick search there is an easy solution that will increase the print size of any mail you receive. Simply hold down on the Ctrl key on the lower left hand corner of your keyboard and then repeatedly tap the + sign next to the Backspace button in the upper right hand of your keyboard. The print size will increase. If you wish to decrease it press the Ctrl key and hit the - button next to the + button.
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All day Adoration in St. James' Chapel, will take place today, Friday, January 28th, from after morning Mass to 9 pm
Come whenever you please.
Stay for 5 minutes
or a full Holy Hour or more!
In the Chapel be sure to sanitize your hands, staying physically distanced and when you leave sanitize anything you touched in the pew in which you sat.
Enjoy your time with the Lord!
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Memorial of St. Thomas Aquinas, Doctor of the Church
“Everything imperfect must proceed from something perfect: therefore the First Being must be most perfect. Everything is perfect inasmuch as it is in actuality; imperfect, inasmuch as it is in potentiality, with privation of actuality. That then which is nowise in potentiality, but is pure actuality, must be most perfect; and such is God.” [1]
For human beings perfection is found in discipleship to Christ.
St. Thomas Aquinas was born in Aquino, Italy, in 1225, the youngest son of Count Landulf. St. Aquinas received his education at the Abbey of Montecassino and at the University of Naples. In 1244, St. Aquinas entered the Dominican Order. He traveled to Paris and Cologne, studying under St. Albert the Great. He became a Master of Theology at Paris and subsequently, taught there and in Italy. He wrote a series of commentaries on the newly translated works of Aristotle to guide Christians in their reading of them. He wrote the Summa theologiae and much of the liturgy for the feast of Corpus Christi. He was declared a Doctor of the Church in 1567 by Pius V who called him the Doctor Angelicus. [2][3][4][5]
Written by Sarah Ciotti
Reviewed by Fr. Hugh Feiss, OSB, STD
[1] St. Thomas Aquinas, “That God is Universal Perfection,” in Of God and His Creatures, 64, www.ccel.org.
[2] Benedict XVI, General Audience, June 2, 2010.
[3] F.L. Cross and E.A. Livingstone, The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (London: Oxford University Press, 1974), 1371-1373.
[4] Fr. Hugh Feiss, OSB, The Martyrology of the Monastery of the Ascension, 2008.
[5] Catholicpedia: The Original Catholic Encyclopedia (1917) for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. s.v. “St. Thomas Aquinas.”
Encyclopedia Britannica Article on St. Thomas Aquinas
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TODAY IN THE PROGRAM OF PRAYER & STUDY WE BEGIN READING THE GOSPEL OF LUKE. JOIN US!
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The Following is the
Program of Prayer & Study
Tuesday, January 28th, 2022
My dear sisters and brothers in Christ
Please stay safe. Be prudent. Wash hands often. Practice physical distancing. Wear your mask in all indoor public places.
Contact one person today who does not have many people to contact them.
Above all, pray!
United in prayer in Christ.
Father Shawn
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Catechism in a Year Day 17
36. Why does the Profession of Faith begin with the words, "I believe in God"?
The Profession of Faith begins with these words because the affirmation "I believe in God" is most important, the source of all the other truths about man and about the world, and about the entire life of everyone who believes in God.
Further reading: CCC 198-199
37. Why does one profess belief that there is only one God?
Belief in the one God is professed because he has revealed himself to the people of Israel as the only One when he said, "Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord" (Deuteronomy 6:4) and "there is no other" (Isaiah 45:22). Jesus himself confirmed that God is "the one Lord" (Mark 12:29). To confess that Jesus and the Holy Spirit are also God and Lord does not introduce any division into the one God.
Further reading: CCC 200-202, 228
The Profession of Faith begins with these words because the affirmation "I believe in God" is most important, the source of all the other truths about man and about the world, and about the entire life of everyone who believes in God.
Further reading: CCC 198-199
37. Why does one profess belief that there is only one God?
Belief in the one God is professed because he has revealed himself to the people of Israel as the only One when he said, "Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord" (Deuteronomy 6:4) and "there is no other" (Isaiah 45:22). Jesus himself confirmed that God is "the one Lord" (Mark 12:29). To confess that Jesus and the Holy Spirit are also God and Lord does not introduce any division into the one God.
Further reading: CCC 200-202, 228