{"id":3156,"date":"2008-01-28T00:20:19","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T00:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2008\/01\/st-thomas.html"},"modified":"2008-01-28T00:20:19","modified_gmt":"2008-01-28T00:20:19","slug":"st-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2008\/01\/st-thomas.html","title":{"rendered":"St Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most of those who read this blog have an interest in theology; many are students. One of the great students of theology and the Bible in the Church was St. Thomas Aquinas and this is the day, according to my calendar, the church celebrates his memory. Here’s a prayer from BCP<\/em>:
\nAlmighty God, you have enriched your Church with the singular learning and holiness of your servant Thomas Aquinas: Enlighten us more and more, we pray, by the disciplined thinking and teaching of Christian scholars, and deepen our devotion by the example of saintly lives; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
\nAnd here a traditional students prayer by Thomas<\/em>:
\nCome, Holy Spirit, Divine Creator,
\ntrue source of light and fountain of wisdom!
\nPour forth your brilliance upon my dense intellect,
\ndissipate the darkness which covers me,
\nthat of sin and of ignorance.
\nGrant me a penetrating mind to understand,
\na retentive memory,
\nmethod and ease in learning,
\nthe lucidity to comprehend,
\nand abundant grace in expressing myself.
\nGuide the beginning of my work,
\ndirect its progress,
\nand bring it to successful completion.
\nThis I ask through Jesus Christ,
\ntrue God and true man,
\nliving and reigning with You
\nand the Father, forever and ever.
\nAmen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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