Echoing the Word: St. Thomas and Divine Creativity in Personal Prayer | Dr. Joshua Revelle

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🗓️ 14 March 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Click here for Dr. Revelle's handout: https://tinyurl.com/yc8b6ew6 This talk was given on January 29, 2022 at the Dominican House of Studies as part of "Thomas Aquinas on Prayer", an intellectual retreat for the UVA Thomistic Institute chapter. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Dr. Joshua Revelle is an adjunct instructor at Mount Saint Mary College, with a PhD in Spirituality from The Catholic University of America. His areas of specialization are dogmatic and spiritual theology, especially in St. Thomas Aquinas. He also enjoys teaching Biblical theology. His research and teaching are geared toward the integration of theory and practice.

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0:11.1	St. Thomas Aquinas composed a number of prayers.
0:15.6	And if we look carefully at the prayers that he composed, we find that he copied a lot from other people.
0:21.6	So I thought about calling this talk plagiarizing your way to holiness with St. Thomas Aquinas.
0:26.7	But I figured it wouldn't be a good idea to have that title on my CV.
0:30.7	And in any case, St. Thomas isn't really plagiarizing.
0:34.4	So I settled on a title that I think is actually more apt, echoing the word St. Thomas and
0:40.6	divine creativity and personal prayer.
0:42.7	But before we consider what this means that he copied from other people, first of all,
0:48.0	I want to prove to you that St. Thomas does in fact copy material for his personal prayers.
0:53.0	And for this, we can look at one of his best known prayers,
0:56.6	Conché de Mehi, which is from the first words of the prayer in Latin grant to me. It's also known
1:03.5	as the prayer for the wise ordering of one's life. At some point, someone couldn't deal with a
1:09.8	long prayer having a short title, so they had to give it a longer title.
1:14.1	In any case, this is one of St. Thomas's most important prayers.
1:17.9	And up until basically 1996, there was some debate about whether St. Thomas actually composed this prayer, but this debate was put to rest mostly when...
1:38.8	Wait for it. Claire Claire Lebrun-Guanvik published a newly discovered edition of the earliest life of St. Thomas, written by William of Tocco. And this early account of St. Thomas's life not only attributes this particular prayer to St. Thomas,
1:45.0	but includes the whole text of it, and presents this prayer as an example of St. Thomas's
1:50.9	virtue. And William of Tocco writes, quote, it is said that he composed the prayer written below,
1:59.6	which is perfect in temperance, devout in affection,
2:03.6	and polished in style, which he would say every day. And if you didn't hear him the first time,
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