Sacred Study: Loving God with Your Mind | Fr. Irenaeus Dunlevy, OP

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🗓️ 20 March 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Fr. Irenaeus Dunlevy explores the meaning of loving God with all our minds, drawing from St. Thomas Aquinas's interpretation of the greatest commandment.

This lecture was given on December 9th, 2024, at Dominican House of Studies.

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About the Speaker:

Fr. Irenaeus Dunlevy was born in Columbus, Ohio and grew up in the southeast suburb of Canal Winchester. The youngest of four children, his parents would drive everyone on Sunday to Mass at St. Mary’s Church. However, after leaving the area for college, his family joined the parish of St. Patrick’s in Columbus. While home on Christmas and summer breaks, Fr. Irenaeus would join his family to hear the holy preaching of the friars. He received a Bachelor and Masters of Architecture from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and practiced for a religious architecture firm in the DC area. After meeting the student brothers and reading about the life of St. Dominic and the Order, he began to consider a religious vocation with the Province of St. Joseph. “I find the balance of contemplative and apostolic life, the charism of study, the reverence of the liturgy and the fraternal community all things that lead to a happy life fulfilled by giving people knowledge of salvation.”

Keywords: Analogical Predication, Articles of Faith, Deposit of Faith, Ignorance, Love of God, Saint Paul, Sacred Study, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Wounds of Original Sin

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tomistic Institute podcast.
0:06.2	Our mission is to promote the Catholic intellectual tradition in the university, the church, and the wider public square.
0:12.7	The lectures on this podcast are organized by university students at Temistic Institute chapters around the world.
0:19.0	To learn more and to attend these events,
0:21.7	visit us at Thomisticinstitute.org.
0:25.5	I'd like to begin this talk by making a claim about Christ,
0:30.9	which is in many ways indebted to a comment from Father John Piero,
0:35.3	Terrell, St. Thomas Aquinas, following to a spiritual master.
0:39.4	He came to our aid to teach us and heal us of our greatest poverty, our ignorance of God.
0:50.7	So I'll say that again.
0:52.2	He came to our aid to teach us and heal us of our greatest poverty, our ignorance of God.
1:01.4	Whereas the Blessed Virgin Mary did not suffer the wounds of original sin, we labor under the weight of sin from our first parents.
1:14.0	The four wounds, they are malice,
1:21.0	which wounds are will, concupiscence, which affects our sensitive appetite, weakness,
1:26.1	which affects our erascible appetite, and the greatest affliction according to Father Terrell ignorance, which strips our intellects of all
1:29.5	knowledge of God. The sin of our first parents has brought us, has brought into the life of all
1:36.6	the deprivation of knowing what we are meant to know and loving what we are meant to love.
1:44.3	For those of you who may not be familiar with the temistic terminology I just dropped on you,
1:49.3	I'll say a quick word.
1:51.3	The intellect and will belong to the mind, which is the highest and most noble part of human nature.
1:55.5	These are hopefully familiar enough.
1:57.9	But the concupiscible and irascible appetites are a bit foreign unless you're familiar
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