Supplement - Supplementum Tertiæ Partis

Completion of the Sacraments and Last Things

Supplement - Supplementum Tertiæ Partis

Completion of the Sacraments and Last Things

The Supplement to the Third Part completes St. Thomas Aquinas’s treatment of the sacraments and addresses the last things. This section was compiled by his disciples from his earlier writings, as Aquinas died before completing the Summa.

Topics Covered

Penance (Continued) (Questions 1-28)

  • The parts of penance (continued from Part III)
  • The power of the keys
  • Excommunication
  • Indulgences
  • The sacrament of extreme unction

Extreme Unction (Questions 29-33)

  • The nature of extreme unction
  • The effect of extreme unction
  • The minister and recipient of extreme unction
  • The ceremonies of extreme unction

Holy Orders (Questions 34-40)

  • The nature of order
  • The effects of order
  • The impediments to order
  • The things annexed to order

Matrimony (Questions 41-68)

  • The nature of matrimony
  • The marriage contract
  • The marriage bond
  • The effects of marriage
  • The impediments to marriage
  • The dissolution of marriage

The Resurrection (Questions 69-86)

  • The resurrection in general
  • The cause of the resurrection
  • The conditions of the risen bodies
  • The identity of the risen body
  • The integrity of the risen body
  • The quality of the risen body
  • The spiritual gifts of the risen body
  • The reunion of soul and body

The Last Judgment (Questions 87-99)

  • The time and place of judgment
  • The judge and those to be judged
  • The form of judgment
  • The fire of the final conflagration
  • The renewal of the world

The State of Souls After Death (Questions 69-71)

  • The separation of the soul from the body
  • The state of the soul after death
  • Prayers for the dead

Appendices

  • Various questions on related topics
  • Supplementary materials

Available Questions

Question 1

The parts of Penance, in particular, and first of contrition

Question 2

The object of contrition

Question 3

The degree of contrition

Question 4

The time for contrition

Question 5

The effect of contrition

Question 6

Confession, as regards its necessity

Question 7

The nature of confession

Question 8

The minister of confession

Question 9

The quality of confession

Question 10

The effect of confession

Question 11

The seal of confession

Question 12

Satisfaction, as to its nature

Question 13

The possibility of satisfaction

Question 14

The quality of satisfaction

Question 15

The means of making satisfaction

Question 16

Those who receive the sacrament of penance

Question 17

The power of the keys

Question 18

The effect of the keys

Question 19

The ministers of the keys

Question 20

Those on whom the power of the keys Can be exercised

Question 21

The definition, congruity and cause of excommunication

Question 22

Those who can excommunicate or be excommunicated

Question 23

Communication with excommunicated persons

Question 24

Absolution from excommunication

Question 25

Indulgences

Question 26

Those who can grant indulgences

Question 27

Those whom indulgences avail

Question 28

The solemn rite of penance

Question 29

Extreme Unction, as regards its essence and institution

Question 30

The effect of this sacrament

Question 31

The minister of this sacrament

Question 32

On whom should this sacrament be conferred and on what part of the body?

Question 33

The repetition of this sacrament

Question 34

The sacrament of Order as to its essence and its parts

Question 35

The effect of this sacrament

Question 36

The qualities required of those who receive this sacrament

Question 37

The distinction of Orders, of their acts, and the imprinting of the character

Question 38

Those who confer this sacrament

Question 39

The impediments to this sacrament

Question 40

The things annexed to the sacrament of Order

Question 41

The sacrament of Matrimony as directed to an office of nature

Question 42

Matrimony as a sacrament

Question 43

Matrimony with regard to the betrothal

Question 44

The definition of Matrimony

Question 45

The marriage consent considered in itself

Question 46

The consent to which an oath or carnal intercourse is appended

Question 47

Compulsory and conditional consent

Question 48

The object of the consent

Question 49

The marriage goods

Question 50

The impediments of marriage, in general

Question 51

The impediment of error

Question 52

The impediment of the condition of slavery

Question 53

The impediment of vows and orders

Question 54

The impediment of consanguinity

Question 55

The impediment of affinity

Question 56

The impediment of spiritual relationship

Question 57

Legal relationship, which is by adoption

Question 58

The impediments of impotence, spell, frenzy or madness, incest and defective age

Question 59

Disparity of worship as an impediment to marriage

Question 60

Wife-murder

Question 61

The impediment to marriage, arising from a solemn vow

Question 62

The impediment that supervenes to marriage after its consummation, namely fornication

Question 63

Second marriages

Question 64

Things annexed to marriage, and first the payment of the marriage debt

Question 65

Plurality of wives

Question 66

Bigamy and of the irregularity contracted thereby

Question 67

The bill of divorce

Question 68

Illegitimate children

Question 69

Matters concerning the resurrection, and first of the place where souls are after death

Question 70

The quality of the soul after leaving the body, and of the punishment inflicted on it by material fire

Question 71

The suffrages for the dead

Question 72

Prayers with regard to the saints in heaven

Question 73

The signs that will precede the judgment

Question 74

The fire of the final conflagration

Question 75

The resurrection

Question 76

The cause of the resurrection

Question 77

The time and manner of the resurrection

Question 78

Article 1. Whether the form of this sacrament is: "This is My body," and "This is My blood"?

Question 79

The conditions of those who rise again, and first of their identity

Question 80

The integrity of the bodies in the resurrection

Question 81

The quality of those who rise again

Question 82

The impassibility of the bodies of the blessed after their resurrection

Question 83

The subtlety of the bodies of the blessed

Question 84

The agility of the bodies of the blessed

Question 85

The clarity of the beatified bodies

Question 86

The conditions under which the bodies of the damned will rise again

Question 87

The knowledge which, after rising again, men will have at the judgment concerning merits and demerits

Question 88

The general judgment, as to the time and place at which it will be

Question 89

Those who will judge and those who will be judged at the general judgment

Question 90

The form of the judge in coming to the judgment

Question 91

The quality of the world after the judgment

Question 92

The vision of the divine essence in reference to the blessed

Question 93

The happiness of the saints and their mansions

Question 94

The relations of the saints towards the damned

Question 95

The gifts, or dowry, of the blessed

Question 96

The aureoles

Question 97

The punishment of the damned

Question 98

The will and intellect of the damned

Question 99

God's mercy and justice towards the damned

Note on the Supplement

The Supplement was not written by St. Thomas Aquinas himself, but was compiled by his disciples (particularly Reginald of Piperno) from his earlier works, especially his Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard. While it maintains the same scholastic method and theological depth, it represents the completion of Aquinas’s theological system by his followers.

“In the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.” - Matthew 22:30