Happy Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas!

 The Church of the Jacobins in Toulouse, France, where St. Thomas Aquinas is buried

Today is the feast of the mighty and brilliant St. Thomas Aquinas. In his Summa Theologica, he addresses so many important issues...and so many little things too! Did you know, for example, that in Question 38, Article 5, he discusses whether getting more sleep and taking a bath will help the soul when we are discouraged?

"Augustine says, 'I had heard that the bath had its name from the fact of its driving sadness from the mind.' And further on, he says: 'I slept, and woke up again, and found my grief not a little assuaged:' and quotes the words from the hymn of Ambrose, in which it is said that 'Sleep restores the tired limbs to labor, refreshes the weary mind, and banishes sadness.'"

~ St. Thomas Aquinas

So, if you're struggling a little this Lent, maybe try taking a nap, a bath, or a long, hot shower. The greatest theologian of all time suggests that it may help! :)