The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1921-03-12

citation of after centuries. The sane
tity of his life was officially recognized
by his canoniZation, scarcely fifty
years after his death. His seraphic
hymns among the most beautiful ex-
amples of religious poetry, were in
corporated in the sacred liturgy of the
Church. His writings have furnished
the basis and given much of the in
spiration of the best and most solid
spiritual and ascetic literature since
his day. His greatest gift to posteri-
ty. however, was the noble bequest
of his philosophical and theological
writings. Through them, 'in the
Councils of Lyons, Vienna, Florence
and the Vatican" wrote Leo KILL
zone might almost say that Thomas
took part in and presided over the de-
alterations and DEGREES of the Fathers,
contending against the errors of
Greeks, of heretics, and Rationalists,
with invincible force and with the
happiest results. But the chief and
he has shared with none of the Cath
Ollie doctors, is that the Fathers of
Trent made it part of the order of
the conclave to lay upon the altar, to-
gether with the code of the Sacred
Scripture and the DEGREES of the SUI
preme Pontiffs, the Summa of Thorn
as Aquinas, whence to seek counsel,
reason, and Inspiration
A Modern Armory.
1t is in these profound works of the
Angelic Doctor that we must seek the
antidote for all those ills that arise
from the false PHILOSOPHERS of the day.
For this master intellect did not mere
ly beat down the errors of the past
and of his own day, but with prophet
ic vision and projecting intellect he
seemed to sense, to propose, and to
refute the errors of the future. The
visionary philosophy of Idealism, the
misleading tenets of Agnosticism and
Pantheism, the debasing conclusions
of Materialism find nowhere a more
adequate answer than in the pages of
the greatest of all the Doctors of the
Church. With good reason therefore
and with admirable judgment have
Catholic schools of Philosophy and
Theology, the world over, made his
doctrines the basis Of their teaching.
Students of st. Thomas College,
you have more than ordinary reason
TO be proud of your patron saint, but
this justifiable pride will avail you
little unless you make your distin-
guished patron your practical ideal.
Learn of him the lesson of incessant,
interchangeable labor, of the Jealous in
dustry which will make you of value
to yourself, to your fellowmen, and to
your God. Season your labors with
prayer, so that you will follow the eX-
ample of the great saint, who labor
ed as though all depended on him,
and prayed as though all depended on
God" And lest vanity bring labor
and prayer to nothing, try to acquire
the humility of Thomas, who, though
he had every reason to give way to
pride, was the humblest of his breth-
rem. 1t is humility that tempers to
sweetness, and gives the quality of
true greatness. And to those virtues
add the browning achievement of vir-
tue, purity of heart, which gave to
Thomas serenity of vision, brilliancy
Of intellect, and the surname of can
selic" In viewing his life we may
we'll quote the words of Wisdom:
80 how beautiful is the chaste gen.
Grafton with glory; for the memory
thereof is immortal; because it is
known both with God and with men.
When it is present, they initiate it;
and they desire it when it hath with
drawn itself, and it triumpheth crown
ed forever, winning the reward of un-
defled conflicts