St. Thomas – Will It!

Someone asked me about the reference to St. Thomas in my my pre-cana notes below. It’s a story I read or heard about the saint a while a go and it really stuck with me, and in fact has become one of my life motos.

The story goes that St. Thomas Aquinas was walking outside and two nuns rushed up to him with a great big bound tablet. They asked St. Thomas if he would be so kind, in his spare time, to write out all that was necessary for the nuns to do so that they could make it into heaven.

St. Thomas graciously agreed and took the volume from the sisters. They were very grateful and left with high hopes that perhaps he could finish this big task within a decade or so.

To their great surprise, St. Thomas showed up the next day, with the tablet, and told them that he had finished the work! The nuns were stunned, but they thanked the saint and took the volume, rushing back to the convent to see all of the words that he had written.

They opend the first page and this was all that was written:

How to Get to Heaven – Will It!!!

In other words (quite a few more “other words!”) we all have the ability to make it to heaven, but we have to want to do so, and we have to will ourselves above and out of our own way to get there! It really was the best advice I have ever heard and I hope my pre-cana couples get it… although I am somewhat doubtful that most young 20 somethings are ready for that kind of message. I don’t think I was.

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