Traditional Catholic prayer
Invocation to St. Thomas Aquinas Before Study
A prayer asking St. Thomas Aquinas’s intercession for faith, charity, purity, and the grace to seek true knowledge.
Source: With God: A Book of Prayers and Reflections (1911), Rev. F. X. Lasance, page 780.
O blessed Thomas, patron of schools, obtain for us from God an invincible faith, burning charity, a chaste life, and true knowledge, through Christ our Lord. Amen.
About this prayer
Prayer source
With God: A Book of Prayers and Reflections (1911), Rev. F. X. Lasance, page 780.
View the printed prayer page.About our prayer sources- What it is
- This invocation asks St. Thomas Aquinas to obtain faith, charity, chastity, and true knowledge. It is addressed to Thomas and is distinct from the library’s prayer traditionally attributed to him.
- Prayer intention
- Faith, charity, and true knowledge.
- When to pray
- Before a lecture, lesson, study session, or examination.
- Connection with a saint
St. Thomas Aquinas: Prayer asking the saint’s intercession. The printed prayer in With God (1911), page 780, asks the intercession of St. Thomas Aquinas; it is not presented as a prayer used by the saint. Read the source.
- Languages
- English
- English prayer source
- With God: A Book of Prayers and Reflections (1911), Rev. F. X. Lasance, page 780. View the historical source. View the printed prayer page. Novena Regina provides the explanations above. The prayer text follows the source named here.
Traditional Catholic prayer
Invocation to St. Thomas Aquinas Before Study
Source: With God: A Book of Prayers and Reflections (1911), Rev. F. X. Lasance, page 780.
O blessed Thomas, patron of schools, obtain for us from God an invincible faith, burning charity, a chaste life, and true knowledge, through Christ our Lord. Amen.