Today is the feast day of St. Thomas Aquinas, the extraordinary philosopher and theologian who wrote the Summa Theologica. St. Thomas Aquinas lived from about 1225 to 1274.
G.K. Chesterton used St. Thomas' nickname (The Dumb Ox) as the title of his short but insightful biography of St. Thomas. Chesterton quotes Albertus Magnus' refutation of these impressions: "You call him 'a dumb ox,' but I declare before you that he will yet bellow so loud in doctrine that his voice will resound through the whole world."
The First Things blog has a post with St. Thomas' reflections on the Cross.
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