When nothing else matters
When nothing else matters Note: I borrowed this article from Fr. Tito Caluag's article from the Philippine Daily Inquirer July 19, 2011 issue. A Jesuit friend once said that if you find something that moves you, keep it (or stay with it). It's God's way of communicating with us. I kept this article because it has moved me. I share it so that it may also move you in some way. THERE IS a story about St. Thomas Aquinas that I heard in a homily back in 2003 on his feast day . The presider at Mass in the Jesuit Chapel in Gonzaga University shared a story that in the middle of St. Thomas’ writing of his definitive volume, he simply stopped. When his community and colleagues asked him why, he supposedly said that he had encountered God, and that was all that mattered. How does one account for this? A man whose writings continue to influence philosophy and theology to this day, in the middle of his definitive work, his magnum opus, stops dead in his tracks because he had encounte...