At our brother’s tomb
June 19th, 2009 by Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P.
This summer, a small group of friars have gone abroad for intensive summer language studies. Today, for the feast of the Sacred Heart, a small group met in Toulouse, France, for a brief trip to the tomb of our brother, St. Thomas Aquinas, the angelic doctor. At the conclusion of our prayers at his final resting place, we stood and sang the Dominican Salve Regina and the O Lumen, an ancient antiphon to our Holy Father St. Dominic — at which point, several others in the beautiful church known as the Jacobin began to snap pictures, while others sat quietly in prayer. For us, it was a moment of grace: this ancient Dominican church, for centuries the home of the Dominicans in Toulouse but now (sadly) owned by the French government, for a few minutes again resounded with the beautiful notes of the most ancient Dominican chants in honor of our patron.
Brothers Jerome Zeiler, Austin Litke, and Jordan Schmidt are in Toulouse for the summer at the Dominican priory in Toulouse. Fr. Dominic Legge is passing through Toulouse (after a retreat at Lourdes) on his way to study German at the priory in Cologne, Germany.
