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Easter 2024
Easter 2024
“I devoutly adore you.”
The last prophecy of St. Thomas Aquinas
before he died 750 years ago.
ARCH 7TH marked the 750th
M Manniversary of the death of St.
Thomas Aquinas, the patron saint of
Catholic education, who uttered a last
prophecy and an emotional prayer
before his departure to heaven. In
addition, the saint reportedly spoke
the lyrics of a beautiful hymn of his
that is sung to this day throughout the
Catholic Church.
The account of the death of St.
Thomas, written by Friar Guillermo
de Tocco, biographer of the saint,
which was published by the website
tomasdeaquino.org run by the
Institute of the Incarnate Word,
relates how the Angelic Doctor was
heading to Rome but was having
health problems. Passing near the
Fossanova Abbey of the Cistercian
monks south of Rome, he agreed to
stay there to regain his strength.
In the cloister, he spoke the
following prophecy to his companion:
“Reginaldo, my son, here will be my rest
forever, here I will live because I have
desired it.” At this, the Dominican
friars who accompanied him began to
cry. As the days passed, St. Thomas,
bedridden, became worse and worse.
Some monks, seeing that his time
was approaching, asked him to give
them a token of his great learning.
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them a brief reflection on the Song of
Songs, a book from the Old Testament
with songs and poems about love.
Later, St. Thomas asked to be given ? Birnie Kirk
holy Communion. When he saw the
Blessed Sacrament arrive, he didn’t
care about his condition and prostrated
himself on the floor with tears in
his eyes to receive his Lord. After ? Reception
receiving Communion, he was asked if
he believed in the Eucharistic Jesus. In
the midst of tears, he answered with a
profound profession of faith.
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“If in this life there can be a knowledge
of this sacrament greater than that of the
faith, in that faith I respond that I firmly
believe and without any doubt that he is
true God and true man, Son of God the ? New Home
Father and the Virgin Mother. And so I
believe with all my heart and confess with
my mouth everything that the priest (who
asked him) has affirmed about this Most ? Surprise
Holy Sacrament,” St. Thomas replied.
Friar Tocco recounted that the
devotion, which those present could