St. Thomas Aquinas' Pursuit of Wisdom and Friendship with God | Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P.

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🗓️ 28 January 2022

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This homily by Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P. was given on Thursday, Jan. 27 in the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception for the Catholic University of America's annual University Mass in honor of the school's patron, St. Thomas Aquinas. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org About the speaker: Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P., is the Director of the Thomistic Institute and an Assistant Professor in systematic theology at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, a Ph.L. from the School of Philosophy of the Catholic University of America, and a doctorate in Sacred Theology from the University of Fribourg. He entered the Order of Preachers in 2001 and was ordained a priest in 2007. He practiced law for several years as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice before becoming a Dominican.

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0:00.0	This talk is brought to you by the Tamistic Institute.
0:03.3	For more talks like this, visit us at tamistic institute.org.
0:11.1	On the feast day of St. Thomas Aquinas in 1889, Pope Leo the 13th formerly established the Catholic University of America with his apostolic letter,
0:26.6	Magi Nobis Gaudi.
0:30.6	It's 133 years later, and we are gathered here in this great basilica to honor St. Thomas Aquinas as the patron
0:41.8	of the Catholic University of America
0:45.2	and of all Catholic universities, all Catholic schools, all Catholic students.
0:53.3	Why should a university, why should this university, take St. Thomas as its
1:01.2	special patron? Well, there are many ways that you might answer that question, but I think
1:07.5	there's one overriding truth about St. Thomas.
1:13.7	You might call it a major theme of his life.
1:17.7	You might even identify it as a dimension, the core dimension, of his own spirituality, if we can dare to say it.
1:28.6	He was a man who loved wisdom.
1:34.7	He consecrated his life to the search for wisdom.
1:41.7	He devoted himself to this search.
1:45.0	Now, he was a medieval Dominican friar.
1:48.0	But in his day, he did some extraordinary things.
1:55.0	That included groundbreaking historical research using the best sources and best methods available to him.
2:04.6	Philosophical and theological disputations in the heart of the great universities of the Middle Ages,
2:12.6	the most important places.
2:14.6	He was there.
2:16.6	He was engaged in the heart of the conversation. Frequent lecturing,
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