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From m_francis' excellent LJ:
Today is the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas. Do something logical in his honor.

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Well I can't resist a challenge, so I shall improve on it.

To my mind, this is the best St. Thomas Aquinas feastday observance ever:

As to whether or not today is St. Thomas' feast day?

Objection 1. It would seem that today is not St. Thomas' feast day, for in going about there is apparent no celebration or any festal atmosphere. Now the feast of so renowned and influential a man as St. Thomas clearly calls for great celebration. Therefore, today is not St. Thomas' Feast day.

Objection 2. Further, today is the 28th of January, whereas St. Thomas' feast day falls on the 7th of March. Therefore, today is not St. Thomas' feast day.

Objection 3. Further, Augustine writes that "the Lord suffered on the sixth day of the week, as is admitted by all: wherefore the sixth day also is rightly reckoned a day for fasting." Today is the sixth day of the week. Now a feast day is not considered a day for fasting. Therefore, today is not St. Thomas' feast day.

On the contrary, the Roman Missal reads, "IANUARIUS V 28 S. Thomæ de Aquino, presbyteri et Ecclesiæ doctoris"

I answer that, the remembrance of this or that holy person dates to the earliest days of the Church, wherein men sought to keep the good example set forth by these persons and petition them for their intercession before God. At one time these rememberances may have been kept informally or without some firm order, as groups of people are wont to differ as to when to keep some commemoration, such as when a man disagrees with his brother over whether it is best to keep a birthday on its precise date or on the weekend.

Now it is not fitting that there be confusion as to when to honor a saint's remembrance, for it is written, "God is not a God of confusion but of peace." Wherefore Augustine writes of establishing days of religious practice, "in those things concerning which the divine Scriptures have laid down no definite rule, the custom of the people of God, or the practices instituted by their fathers, are to be held as the law of the Church." Now the custom of the people of God and the tradition of the fathers is to entrust the dates of saints' rememberances to the Church, which has established that January 28th is to be the feast of St. Thomas. Therefore, today is the feast of St. Thomas.