St. Thomas Aquinas

Are we truly striving for heaven or merely avoiding hell?

The human heart's greatest longing is to see God as He is. And yet, many people simply want to escape hell's pain, or even worse, they follow our disordered fallen nature in choosing sinful pleasures. Our Lord said the road to heaven is narrow, but the road to hell is wide (see Matt. 7:13). Is choosing the road to heaven merely wanting to avoid pain, or is it actively pursuing the greatest good beyond imagining?

Do we choose the good because we strive to love God with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength, or do we choose the good merely because we fear hell?

God never leaves us alone in these choices. Indeed, He sends us His grace, but--to help us cooperate with that grace and fight valiantly--He also sends spiritual warriors and guides, of whom one of the greatest is Saint Thomas Aquinas.

In Angelic Virtues and Demonic Vices, Saint Thomas guides us on how to pursue our true celestial homeland while avoiding running to a false heaven. He outlines the various vices, and their forty-plus daughters, and details how to conquer them.

After reading this work, you will not only desire to become a saint because you will see how hideous vice truly is but also see how splendid and virtuous living for God is.

The essentials of the Catholic Faith--
clearly & beautifully explained by one of the Church's greatest thinkers!

Although St. Thomas Aquinas was one of the Church's most intellectually powerful theologians, few know that he also wrote a great deal that's well within the reach of ordinary believers.

In fact, as you'll find in The Aquinas Catechism, St. Thomas had a remarkable ability to communicate the Faith -- including both its most complex and its simplest elements -- in plain language. Here you'll find his deeply insightful, straightforward, and clear explanations of the Apostles' Creed, the Commandments, and the Sacraments -- as well as of the Our Father and the Hail Mary.

In other words, this book will give you a basic course in the Catholic Faith, taught by the Church's greatest theologian.

Let him help you:

Above all, let St. Thomas teach you how to explain, defend, and live your Faith . . . with the clear-sighted wisdom of a saint!

Father Copleston's lucid and stimulating book examines this extraordinary man--whose influence is perhaps greater today than in his own lifetime--and his trought, relating his ideas wherever possible to problems as they are discussed today.

The Summa Theologiae is a work of astounding breadth and scope: five folio vol-umes of closely packed print, and more closely packed thought; incredibly, it was a work intended, not for the learned and wise, but for beginners. Walter Farrell, O.P., fully honors that intention with his four Companion volumes to the Summa, which together offer an easy guidebook to St. Thomas's greatest work. These are not simply more books about St. Thomas or about the Summa; rather, they are a distillation of the Summa into popular and accessible form, a unique introduction to the thought of the Angelic Doctor and a defense of the truths, natural and divine, by which human life is lived.

Volume III: The Fullness of Life presents St. Thomas's superb study of human living in all its exuberant totality, encompassing a brilliant and expansive examination of the habits of happiness (virtue) and habits of unhappiness (vice). In neat and orderly fashion, Farrell follows the Angelic Doctor's lead in considering freedom as the key to the fullness of life and the divine gifts which secure that freedom: faith for man's mind, hope and charity for his will, and the myriad attendant virtues of those gifts-justice, temperance, prudence, courage, humility, and more. An invigorating rebuttal to modernity's unholy confusion over human nature and destiny, A Companion to the Summa, Volume III: The Fullness of Life reveals the wide, inspiring world in which the Creator has set men and women to live and to play, to work and to worship-in truth.

"O sacred banquet, in which Christ becomes our food..."

Discover the Eucharist anew through one of the most beautiful and profound prayers of Saint Thomas Aquinas. In O Sacred Banquet, Fr. Patrick Mary Briscoe, OP, invites you on a captivating journey into the depths of the Church's Eucharistic mystery -- guided by Aquinas's brilliant spiritual insight. Fr. Briscoe reveals the rich treasury of theology, beauty, and spiritual fire St. Thomas hid in the few extraordinary lines of O Sacrum Convivium.

Rooted in Scripture, steeped in tradition, and illuminated by the wisdom of the Angelic Doctor, this powerful and readable book offers a compelling exploration of the Eucharist's four great themes:

- Christ becomes our food

Enter the heart of Eucharistic theology as Aquinas explains how ordinary bread and wine become the very Body and Blood of Christ -- and why this miracle matters for every Christian life.

- We commemorate his Passion

Discover how the Mass is far more than a ritual remembrance. It is a real participation in Christ's sacrifice, where Calvary becomes present to us.

- Christ fills our souls with grace

Through personal stories, the lives of the saints, and the teaching of Aquinas, learn how the Eucharist heals, transforms, and unites us more intimately with Jesus.

- He gives us the pledge of future glory

Be lifted in the hope of heaven as you contemplate the Eucharist as a foretaste of eternal life -- the banquet of the Kingdom already begun on earth