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About Everyone's Aquinas
Everyone's Aquinas is a short name for
Saint Thomas Aquinas International Center for Everyone
Saint Thomas Aquinas is Everyone's Aquinas. Saint Thomas Aquinas is
a center. Saint Thomas Aquinas is international. Saint Thomas is all
this, because
Saint
Saint Thomas Aquinas is a saint. Every saint is everyone
for everyone, and is everything for everyone, as Saint Paul says "I
have made my self all things for all persons, so that I may save all
through my Christ.".
Common Doctor: a Universal Teacher
Saint Thomas Aquinas is Common Doctor, a Universal teacher of all
truths from all fields divine and human to every person of the common
people of all walks of life.. He said he wrote his great books for the
novices of the learning. The highest wisdom is based on the Primary
principles of reason and faith which are self-evident to the uneducated
common people.
Angelic Doctor
Saint Thomas Aquinas is the Angelic Doctor. Every Angel, if holy,
is everyone and everything for everyone, by joining creatures with the
Creator for the infinite glory and happiness of the infinite love. Love,
in the Angelic purity, is the center of the Universe. It is the soul
of virtues. Saint Thomas taught this. He is truly the Angelic Doctor.
Doctor of Humanity
Saint Thomas is the Doctor of Humanity. Every human individual is
a micro cosmos expressing the Beauty of the Cosmos which is an image
of the Exemplar Cause of all the forms of Being in its total dimension.
The dignity of each human person mirrors the value of the total dimension
of Being qua Being. Each person is unique and unrepeatable, and is therefore
a center of the universe. The perfection of the universe is the responsibility
of every human person. Every human person is everyone for everyone,
as Saint Thomas Aquinas is.
Pioneer of the Objective Critical Scientific
Realism
Saint Thomas Aquinas is the Pioneer of the Objective Critical Scientific
Realism. He understood and taught the foundation for the harmony between
faith and reason, between science and religion, between religion, culture,
science and technology. The subjective immanent ideas of the intellect
are capable by nature to represent objective truths of all things the
human intellect can grasp under the light of being, "sub ratione entis."
Among all truths, no truth can ever contradict another truth. All truths
are assimillable. The human mind is open to all truths. Truth makes
everyone free, and makes everyone a center of services for everyone.
Unity of Prayer and Study and Work
Saint Thomas taught and practiced the unity of Prayer and Study and
Work. Saint Benedict taught him "Ora et Labora" ("Pray and Work"), Saint
Thomas Aquinas expanded that teaching into "Ora. Schola, et Labora",
which can be said to say "the trinity of the prayer, study and work."
The Cultural Geography happily sees the unity between "Jerusalem, Athens,
and Rome" extended to our transcontinental Planet, in the new millennium.
All Saint Thomas writings can be summed up in his Commentaries on the
three greatest prayers of the human history: 1. the Apostles Creed,
2. the Lord's Prayer, and 3. the Hail Mary. They contain the truths
for prayer, study and contemplation, the laws of life and work for justice
and peace. .
International
Saint Thomas Aquinas is international. He lived, studied , taught and
traveled in Italy, Germany, Belgium and France. His Kingdom is the Kingdom
of God. His idea of Law, constitution, and civic order is conceived
as the Divine Wisdom, (Sapientia Divina), and has no geographic boundaries
or frontiers. He is a World citizen, which ever country he happens to
sojourn in. He is a brother of everyone and for everyone, as a saint
should be. He is international. He is Catholic.
With Saint Thomas Aquinas, you can see the truth
that if everyone is everyone's Aquinas, then everyone saves every one
and there will be peace in the world for ever..
About Matthias Lu
He is the initiator of Everyone's Aquinas. He translated, commented,
and published many selected works of Aristotle, the Apostolic Fathers,
The Apologist Fathers, Justin and Airstides, and Saint Thomas Aquinas.
He is a priest ordained since 1942. He taught in the Universities, Colleges,
Seminaries, in Italy, France, China, Canada, Indiana, New York, Minnesota,
and California. For more details read the articles, Aquinas Metaphysics
in China, Aquinas' Silver Jubilee,and other articles..
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