Thomas Aquinas at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on the campus of The Catholic University of America (CUA) in Washington, D.C The Mass, held to mark the opening of the university's spring semester, coincided with Catholic Schools Week. The Mass was broadcast...
oftransubstantiationat theFourth Lateran Councilin 1215. This definition opened the way for the Scholastic interpretation of the eucharistic presence of Christ and of the sacramental principle, in Aristotelian terms. Thus,St. Thomas Aquinasmaintained that a complete change occurred in the “substance”...
by a natural instinct without any express command or special injunction..."-St. Thomas Aquinas Welcome Holy Sacrifice of the Mass more The Mass consists of three important and necessary parts, theOffertory,ConsecrationandCommunion. A Catholic is obliged to *attend Holy Mass each Sunday and Holyday...
Thomas Aquinas, and many other theologians teach, the grace effected by the Eucharist is the union of the faithful with Christ. St. Thomas calls this grace “the unity of the Mystical Body.” The grace effected by the Eucharist (the union of the faithful with Christ or the unity of the ...
St. Thomas Aquinas on Creation, Procession, and the Preposition per In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: html_title St. Thomas Aquinas on Creation, Procession, and the Preposition per /html_title John F. Boyle Throughout his work, St. Thomas Aquinas is ever ...
Thomas Aquinas, Estius, and Stentrup, is far-fetched (cf. Thalhofer, “Das Opfer des A. and N. Bundes”, Ratisbon, 1870, pp. 233 sqq.). It might on the other hand appear still more strange that in the passage of the Epistle to the Hebrews, where Christ and Melchisedech are ...
Thomas Aquinas, Estius, and Stentrup, is far-fetched. It might on the other hand appear still more strange that in the passage of the Epistle to the Hebrews, where Christ and Melchisedech are compared, the two food offerings should be only not placed in prophetical relation with each ...
As St. Thomas Aquinas writes in his hymn, “Faith, our outward sense befriending, makes our inward vision clear.” The point is that our outward senses do not, and indeed cannot perceive the reality. But with faith, our physical senses can be, in that wonderful phrase, “befriended,” ...
“From then on, I never looked back,” she said. “My passion for public service was to become a resource connector to help everyone, regardless of where they were at in life.” She has also worked at Springfield College as the assistant director of the Center for Service a...
In all of the other sacraments, Jesus gives us his grace, says St. Thomas Aquinas, whereas in the Eucharist, the “sacrament of sacraments,” he gives us his whole self, his divinity and his humanity. How is this possible? The transformation of the bread and wine happens the same way ...