From the Paul VI Audience Hall, Pope Leo XIV attends the First Advent Meditation delivered by the Preacher of the Papal Household, Fr. Roberto Pasolini, O.F.M. Cap., on the theme “Awaiting and Hastening the Coming of the Day of God” (2 Peter 3:12). Vatican News - Papal preacher: Advent is a time of trusting expectation

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Contributed by a visiting university student from France When Saint Thomas Aquinas was a student, his classmates nicknamed him the “Dumb Ox.” This meant that he worked hard but quietly, never seeking attention, appearing even slow and silent. His teacher, Saint Albert the Great, replied: “You call him the dumb ox, but one day he will bellow so loudly that his voice will resound throughout the world.” That prophecy came true: Thomas became the greatest of all scholastic theologians. Do you...