TOMÁŠ TYN, PRIEST - 1 JANUARY

 

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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