"Organized warfare is more advantageous for the soldier than were he forced to fight this duel, alone." Image: Wiki Commons Editors' Notes As previously noted, it is not so easy to find pre-conciliar material on "The Angelic Warfare Confraternity" of the Cord of St Thomas Aquinas. We are glad to have the permission of Dominicana …
"... to preserve the sacred treasure of purity, or to regain it after having lost it." Image: British Museum, Commemorative print on the founding of the Angelic Warfare Confraternity (also called the Guild of the Cord of St Thomas Aquinas) in 1649 by Franciscus Deurwaarders. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Editors' Notes(Want to …
This is the final part in our series summarising and re-ordering of the testimonies given in St Thomas’s 1319 canonisation enquiry.[1] These are not just pious stories written by hagiographers: they are sworn testimonies recounted under oath by respectable men, both from the clergy and from the nobility. We see amongst the laymen even civil …
Continue reading The Fioretti of St Thomas – Part III: The Miracles after his Death
I would like to offer our readers this beautiful text on prayer taken from the Catechetical Instructions of St Thomas Aquinas. This is now available in Tradivox Vol. VI (UK readers click here). It is also available at the Internet Archive. Reminder: We earn with purchases through Amazon links. We hope that the text from St …
Continue reading St Thomas Aquinas on the Five Qualities of Prayer
In Sapientiae Christianae, Pope Leo XIII taught that it is a duty for laymen to study and spread the Catholic faith. He wrote: "In order to safeguard this virtue of faith in its integrity, we declare it to be very profitable and consistent with the requirements of the time, that each one, according to the measure …