Of Dumb Oxes and Cuban Apostles

Before I forget, today is also, of course, the feastday in the Ordinary Form of St. Thomas Aquinas, the great theologian with a mind like a chest of drawers and a body to match. (Seriously, I love Thomas--and given his early life involved resisting temptation by chasing a prostitute away with a burning firebrand and being lowered over the wall of a castle in a basket--he had his action man