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in adoration beore the Blessed Sacrament. Youonce said that you learned more rom prayerbeore the tabernacle than rom many hours ostudy.

Pray that I, too, may be inamed with an ardentlove or the Holy Eucharist. Help me to alwaysesteem and reverence this wonderul sacrament.Pray or me that I may always participate devoutlyin Mass, receive Holy Communion with greatervor, and oten visit Jesus in the tabernacle.Through contact with the Eucharistic Lord, maymy heart overow with love or God and or myneighbor. Amen.

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St. Thomas Aquina s, pray or us.

St. Thomas, f lled wit h cha rity

S t. Thomas, you were noted during your lieor the charity you showed to others. Duringdebates at the university, you did not ridiculethose who argued with you but treated them withrespect and love. You showed consideration orthe needs o other people.

Help me also to be more deeply rooted in

love o God and neighbor, keeping in mind Jesus'words, This is how all will know that you aremy disciples, i you have love or one another(Jn 13:35). Help me to practice this same charityin a concrete way that does not stop at words,but is shown with sacrifce. May it begin frst oall in my amily, and then radiate to everyoneI meet. Amen.

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St. Thomas Aquina s, pray or us.

St. Thomas, deender o the church

S t. Thomas, rom your youth you learned tolove the Church, your spiritual home. In yourteaching, you sought to explain and deend thedoctrine o the Church, making it known through

your writings.Intercede or the Church today, that it may

grow stronger and more spiritually ruitul in theworld. Raise up holy priests, religious, and laity,that they may all be the salt o the earth and the

light o the world. Bless the Pope in his eortsto guide the Church, witnessing to the power othe Gospel to renew the ace o the earth. Maylearned men in the Church work to explore therichness o Catholic teaching so as to showorth its truth and beneft the aithul. Pray ormissionaries as they work to spread the Gospel.May the whole Church be renewed by the powero the Spirit to more eectively witness to Christin the world today. Amen.

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St. Thomas Aquina s, pray or us.

St. Thomas, teache r o pray er

S t. Thomas, you knew that prayer is the sourceo wisdom and you spent long hours inconversation with God. Prayer became your verylie. Whenever you pondered over a problemin theology, you turned to prayer to seek God'senlightenment. Now in heaven you see God aceto ace. Pray or me, too, that I may become

a person o proound prayer. the grace that I may always prayconfdence, and perseverance. Hmore and more in the spirit o prawhole lie may become a prayerseek the ace o the living God. A

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St. Thomas Aquina s, pray

St. Thomas, p atron o stu

St. Thomas, God called you o your lie in academic pur

student, and then as a proessor your work as a teacher, you desirstudents apply what they learnedin order to grow in holiness. Yoknowledge is meant to draw peGod. In your teaching you sought tthe truth, desiring to help your stbetter Christians.

Pray or all students. Pray or have difculty in their studies, as wwho can study with ease. Pray thbe open to the truth, and alwaysunderstand it. May they grow in k

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W hen barely fve years old, St. Thomas Aquinaswas given to the Benedictine monastery atMonte Cassino, Italy with his parents hopes thathe would become a monk and later the abboto the said monastery. In 1239 he was sent toNaples to complete his studies.

By 1243, Thomas abandoned his amilysplans or him and joined the Dominicans, muchto his mothers dismay. The Dominicans alongwith the Franciscans were the poorest o thereligious orders at that time. They were beggars,mendicants who to survive had to beg or theirood. That turned o his noble and rich amily. Onthe order o his mother, Thomas was captured byhis brothers and kept at home or over a year.

Once ree, he went to Paris and then toCologne, where he fnished his studies withAlbert the Great. He held two proessorshipsat Paris, lived at the court o Pope Urban IV,directed the Dominican schools at Rome andViterbo. His eloquence made him the most wellknown preacher o his time.

The Summa Theologiae, his last and,unortunately, uncompleted work, deals with thewhole o Catholic theology. He stopped work onit ater celebrating Mass on December 6, 1273.When asked why he stopped writing, he replied,I cannot go on All that I have written seems tome like so much straw compared to what I haveseen and what has been revealed to me. Hedied March 7, 1274.

S t. Thomas Aquinas, patron o students andschools, I thank God or the gits o lightand knowledge he bestowed on you, which youused to build up the Church in love. I thank God,too, or the wealth and richness o teaching youlet in your writings. Not only were you a greatteacher, you lived a lie o virtue and you madeholiness the desire o your heart. I I cannotimitate you in the brilliance o your studies,I can ollow you in the humility and charitywhich marked your lie. As St. Paul said, charityis the greatest git, and it is open to all. Prayor me that I may grow in holiness and charity.Pray also or schools, and or all students. Inparticular, please obtain the avor I ask duringthis novena (mention your request). Amen.

St. Thomas, c alled by God

S t. Thomas, as a young man you becameconvinced that God was calling you toreligious lie. Although your amily was opposedto it, you were determined to ollow God's call.Even when your brothers kidnapped you andorced you to remain a prisoner in your own

house, you did not give up but waited patientlyor God's hour. St. Thomas, pray or all youngpeople who are considering their vocation inlie. Help them to be open to the call o God.Inspire them to make choices motivated by loveor God and an unselfsh love or other people.Whatever their state in lie, help them to see theirchosen path as a call to service. May all marriedcouples, single persons, priests, and religious

build up the Church through livdevotion and love. Amen.

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St. Thomas Aquinas , pray

St. Thomas, lover o pu

S t. Thomas, you had a great virtue o purity. When your deter you rom entering the Dominica woman to lead you into sin, ytemptation and determined to co

chastity to God o rever.Today we are immersed in degrades the git o human sexpersons are viewed as objects otheir human dignity is devalued. abuse and amilies are damaged

Pray that our society may oncthe virtue o chastity. Pray that thowill work to promote a Christian viand amily lie. Amen.

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St. Thomas Aquinas , pray

St. Th omas, e xample o hu

St. Thomas, when you were a some o your classmen called

ox." Although you were more inteo them, you bore their insults paretaliating. You were endowed wibut recognized that God is the souYou humbly acknowledged your dGod, and begged him to enlight

you wou ld act only or his glory.

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