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Offline OABrownson1876

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Works of St. Thomas Aquinas: Latin/English (Aquinas Institute)
« on: September 25, 2024, 11:16:00 AM »
For those of interested in the works of St. Thomas Aquinas, this is a good source: https://www.aquinasinstitute.org/aquinas-opera-omnia.  The Works can be accessed online, but I like the hardback, blue volumes, Latin/English side-by-side.  They are a bit pricy, but nicely done.  During my U of L days I had a professor tell me that only 30% of St. Thomas Collected Works have been translated from the Latin to English.  Had it not been for Vatican II, most of St. Thomas would probably be translated by now.  

St Thomas died at the age of forty-seven, in 1274.  It is astonishing to think of the amount of writing he did, and yet he was not even fifty when he died.    
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Re: Works of St. Thomas Aquinas: Latin/English (Aquinas Institute)
« Reply #1 on: September 25, 2024, 12:40:16 PM »
Quote from: OABrownson1876 on September 25, 2024, 11:16:00 AM
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St Thomas died at the age of forty-seven, in 1274.  It is astonishing to think of the amount of writing he did, and yet he was not even fifty when he died.   

Astonishing too the depth of humility to assess his life's work this way:

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On the feast of St. Nicholas [in 1273, Aquinas] was celebrating Mass when he received a revelation that so affected him that he wrote and dictated no more, leaving his great work the Summa Theologiae unfinished. To Brother Reginald’s (his secretary and friend) expostulations he replied, “The end of my labors has come. All that I have written appears to be as so much straw after the things that have been revealed to me.” When later asked by Reginald to return to writing, Aquinas said, “I can write no more. I have seen things that make my writings like straw.”

[From the suspect Thurston & Attwater SJ revision of Lives of the Saints, not being able to find online Butler's original in case it differs significantly.]
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