28 January is the feast of St Thomas Aquinas. Today we inaugurate the Center of Institutional Studies in Macau, the last piece to complete of institutional structure of formation which shall usher a new dawn in the life and missionary expansion of the Our Lady of the Rosary Province.
We pray that the Good Lord will continue to shower upon us with good and generous vocations to ensure a future for our ministries threatened by aging, sickness and fear for change and challenges.
Let me share to you the prayer of St Thomas which the community had printed as a souvenir for the occasion.
Prayer of Saint Thomas Aquinas before Study
Creator of all things, true source of light and wisdom,
lofty origin of all being, graciously let a ray of your brilliance penetrate into the darkness of my understanding and take from me the double darkness in which I have been born,
an obscurity of both sin and ignorance.
Give me a sharp sense of understanding, a retentive memory, and the ability to grasp things
correctly and fundamentally.
Grant me the talent of being exact in my explanations, the ability to express myself with thoroughness and charm.
Point out the beginning, direct the progress, and help in completion;
Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
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