Fourth day of study with another great saint and now we're beginning to get creative! :)Bubbles had the urge to make this amazingly scrumptious, perfectly flaky, sweet apple pastry today. With the kitchen being tied up, I decided there must be a way to use it for today's incredible saint. So, here it is....
St. Thomas Aquinas, who was extremely intelligent, discovered the joys of the Dominican order of priests. He joined the Order of Preachers, but his family was adamantly against it. His brothers kidnapped him and brought him back home where they kept him, almost like a prisoner, for about fifteen months, trying to get him to change his mind. However, St. Thomas' attitude through it all actually changed their minds and he was allowed to leave. He went on to write many books which are still referred to today. Even though he had a brilliant mind, he knew that holiness was the way to heaven. He puts it this way, "I learn more things from praying before a crucifix then I do from books." He died in the year 1274 while on his way to the important church meeting called the Council of Lyons. He was proclaimed a Doctor of the Church and is the patron saint of universities, colleges, and schools.
I think the pastry shows how one can be trapped, but still remain sweet. (A stretch, I know).
Intercede for us, St. Thomas Aquinas, that we all grow in humility and that our intellect leads us to Christ in all things.
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