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St. Thomas Aquinas, patron of students and a model of holiness,

while 2023 marked the 700th anniversary of St. Thomas Aquinas' canonisation in 1323.

This year, 2024, marks the 750th anniversary of his death.

This is then a double jubilee and a double opportunity to reflect on St. Thomas as not just a great teacher of truth and goodness from whom we can learn so much,

but as a saint whose example of goodness, of virtue and holiness we are invited to follow.

So as in my first talk, I gave seven reflections on Aquinas' ethics,

on a domestic approach to the good life.

So in this second talk, I'm going to structure my talk similarly

by offering seven reflections on St. Thomas's life

and how he can become, especially for our students,

both our patron saint interceding for us and our exemplary model of holiness.

So first, I'm going to speak about St. Thomas as our patron saint and intercessor in heaven

and how we might get to know him.

Second, about the highest faculties of St. Thomas's soul, his miraculous intellect, and even more striking, I would say, is indomitable will.

Third, about St. Thomas's way of life, and in particular roles of silent, solitude and study.

Fourth, about the works of St. Thomas that he's left us, his body,

his body of writings, the corpus to mysticum, and why St. Thomas is rightly called

the universal, common and angelic doctor of the church. Fifth, about St. Thomas as a Dominican preacher and poet of the Christian faith.

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