TOMÁŠ TYN, PRIEST

TOMÁŠ TYN, PRIEST - 1 JANUARY

TOMÁŠ TYN, PRIEST

Tomáš Tyn was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, today Czech Republic on May 3, 1950. Thomas received from his family the Catholic principles that couldn’t be publicly professed because of interdictions of communist regime. The parish administrator, Reverend Joseph Budish, was the person that mainly influenced his Christian education. When he was 12 years old, Tomáš started thinking to become a religious priest whereas his mother Ludmilla wanted him to become a doctor.

In 1968, the family fled Czechoslovakia from the

of Soviet invasion. Tomáš was allowed to study in France, and joined the Dominican Order. After a period in Warburg in Westphalia, Germany, he went to live in Bologna, following the advice of his spiritual director.

After completing his studies, Tomáš was ordained priest by Pope Paul VI on June 29, 1975.

He often spoke out against Communism, and said this opposition he felt for dictatorship had been the reason for his vocation to the priesthood, as he would later say in a homily on Fatima in 1987: "My vocation is due to Communism, thanks be to God".

He was awarded a doctorate in theology from the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum, and in 1987 Fr Tomáš began teaching Moral Theology at the Dominican institute in Bologna.

Fr Tomáš was in epistolary correspondence with the then Cardinal Ratzinger, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, who would later become Pope Benedict XVI. His first letter was written on August 4 1985, feast of Saint Dominic. Fr Tomáš wrote to Cardinal Ratzinger to pay him a compliment for his book The Ratzinger Report and to discuss the problems faced by the Church. Fr Tomáš was also very devoted to the Holy Virgin and to the Holy Rosary and he was an admirer of the Marian Spirituality of Saint

Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort.

Of strong physical constitution, Fr Tomáš

was suddenly diagnosed with a terrible and incurable disease at the age of 39 which caused his death within just two month time.

Father Tomáš lived the last month of his life in Germany, surrounded by the affection and lovely care of his parents. Even in the last month of his life Father Tomáš endeavoured to celebrate Holy Mass in his own room. In the last days of his life Father Tomáš gave to the Dominican Editor Father Vincenzo Benetollo a voluminous manuscript of metaphysics on which he had been working for the previous ten years. It has been published posthumously in 1991.

Fr Tomáš died on January 1, 1990 in Neckargemünd Germany. His tombstone bears the words from Psalm 42 recited at the foot of the altar in the Latin Mass: Et introibo ad altare Dei, ad Deum qui laetificat juventutem meam.

The cause for his canonisation was initiated in 1991 by Carlo Caffarra, Cardinal Archbishop of Bologna.

Sources:

https://www.studiodomenicano.com

https://isoladipatmos.com/en/in-ricordo-di-padre-tomas-tyn-un-moderno-gigante-della-fede/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%C3%A1%C5%A1_T%C3%BDn

WELCOME

Please pick your saints: January - Saints by date 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 February - Saints by date 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 ...

BL. LUKE KIRBY, PRIEST AND MARTYR - 30 MAY

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 30th of May WELCOME! BLESSED LUKE KIRBY, PRIEST AND MARTYR 16th century houses, painted by Auguste Mayer He was born in the bishopric of Durham, according to Raissius ; others say at Richmond, in Yorkshire. He was master of arts in one of our universities; but going abroad to Douay, in Flanders, was received into the English college there, 1576, and made priest in 1577; and the year following sent upon the mission. Where he had not been long before he again went abroad, and travelled to Rome, partly for devotion, and partly for further improvement in learning. Here he remained in the English college till 1580, when he returned into England, and was not long after apprehended: for I find by a printed diary of things transacted in the Tower of London from 1580 till 1585, that on the 5th of December, 1580, Luke Kirby, Thomas Cottam , and other priests, were brought to the Tower from other prisons; and that these two, on the 10th...

BL. RICHARD NEWPORT, PRIEST AND MARTYR - 30 MAY

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 30th of May WELCOME! BLESSED RICHARD NEWPORT, PRIEST AND MARTYR Richard Newport, alias Smith , was born in Northamptonshire and performed his studies abroad, partly in the college of Rheims (if he be the Richard Smith whom I find in the Douay diary sent to Rome in 1586) and partly in that of Rome, where he was made priest. From thence he was sent upon the English mission, and behaved himself in such a manner as justly to acquire the character of a laborious missionary; being withal remarkably successful in bringing home many strayed sheep to the fold of Christ, to which his apostolical way of living did not a little contribute. He was several times apprehended and cast into prison, and twice banished. His name occurs amongst those who were transported in 1606; at which time, we are told, he took that opportunity of making a pilgrimage to Rome, there to pour forth his prayers at the tombs of the apostles, in behalf of thi...

SAINT FEAST DAY FOR EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR

Search This Blog