This is the movement of the Holy Family.

Welcome to our Rosary.

Let us begin by calling to mind that we're ever in the presence of Almighty God

in whom we live and move and have our being.

And we call upon Him in the name of the Father and of the

son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Before we begin our Rosary on St Thomas

Aquinas, I want to pray for Deacon Steve White, the Lord appears to be preparing to call him home at any moment and we pray for his repose for consolation and strength for his wife Lisa and for his daughters.

We often hear people described as the smartest guy or gal who ever lived.

In St Thomas Aquinas' case, this might be true.

This 13th century saint was so amazing and intelligent with his theological

output that popes and theologians have identified his writings as the primary source for understanding

the truths of divine revelation. This isn't the most amazing thing about him

though. The most amazing thing about him is his heroic virtues

especially humility. One year before he died he was granted a heavenly vision

upon recovering his senses from this divine

contemplation, he told a fellow friar that he would never finish his theological masterpiece called the

Summa theologia. Why? Because compared to what he had seen, it was straw. Straw, the greatest theological treatise ever written.

Whatever he saw, the grandures of it superseded and overwhelmed his enormous intellect. But rather than cling to his

status and grand reputation earned by his work, the humble Thomas gladly embraced the towering reality of God and happily

accepted a truer, albeit smaller, understanding of his work.

Our father who are understanding of his work.

Our Father who are to heaven,

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