January 29, 2008
Happy Belated Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas
I was going to post something earlier that would have not had the "belated" part, but was swamped today. Anyway, I hope you had a good Feast Day. I did. I learned from Fr. Michael Sweeney, OP, that St. Thomas is also the patron of chefs. And that he loved pickled herring. I will have to try some. When one gets a food recommendation from a Saint, particularly a Saint of Thomas' girth, one does not take it lightly.
It would seem, then, that eating pickled herring is not fitting for a saint...
You fill in the rest!
Posted by erik at January 29, 2008 12:24 AMMy culinary tastes are amazingly Deutsch. Or at least Austrian!
I like your bad summa, though!
Posted by: Registered User at January 30, 2008 1:26 AM. . . in that pickled herring does not constitute a mortification of the flesh.
Sed contra, as Our Lord himself turned ordinary water not only into wine, but into wine of high quality, it is proper for even saints to enjoy the things of this life, so long as they do not allow undue attachment to such created goods. /badSumma
Pickled herring is indeed good stuff, if more Deutsch than most of your gastronomic preferences. My Irische frau can't handle it.
Posted by: Gregg the obscure at January 29, 2008 4:21 AM