Tuesday, 1/28/13
Today is the feast
of St. Thomas Aquinas, a Dominican scholar of the Bible and the writings of
Aristotle. He lived from 1225 to 1274, writing two comprehensive texts on
Catholic Theology and a Catholic approach of Philosophy. We had Dominican
Sisters in my home parish, and they saw to it that I was named after Aquinas.
Then, from Sixty to
fifty years ago I had two wonderful Korean Sisters in my Korean parish, and
every year they presented me with a delicately painted feast day card. That
seemed to be all in the past, but today I received an email from a Sister Josepha
in Korea, wishing me a happy Feast Day. I had to get out a Korean dictionary to
decipher her letter. I was never very good at that language.
In the summer of
1957, with some American visitors coming, I wanted to have our little Catholic
girls put on a dance for them, then they brought along the best little dancer
in the Middle School. In her dance she was a princess who came to a laboring
boy in his sleep, dancing for him. She stayed on, becoming a Catholic, becoming
nun, and bringing her whole wonderful family into the Church. Her older
brother, a retired lawyer, sometimes comments on my web page. In her email
today Sister Josepha told me about her nephew Peter becoming a priest back in December.
All of this comes from her being the best dancer in her Middle School.
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