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The more I know the more I realize how little I knew. I've known about wisdom, but not in this way. But one thing for sure, it's both humbling and awe-inspiring; God and His love.

@ThomisticInstitute

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Thanks for watching! May the Lord bless you!

@anthonyw2931

2 жыл бұрын

@@ThomisticInstitute truly thank you. You as well

Thank God I found your channel. As a new convert Catholic, strengthening my faith is so much powerful throughout this way of discussion. God bless your ministry 🙏

@ThomisticInstitute

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Welcome to the Catholic church! We're so glad you're here and will pray for you. If you have any questions, please feel free to put them in the comments with #AskAFriar, and one of our friars will try to answer. Thanks so much for taking the time to watch and comment, and may the Lord bless you!

Thanks Father

@ThomisticInstitute

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Thanks for watching! May the Lord bless you!

This was awesome! Praise God! giving us practical wisdom that we may see how great his wisdom is. 🙏🏼

@ThomisticInstitute

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Cheers, thanks for watching! May the Lord bless you!

I love your animations! They are a great addition to the narrative :)

@ThomisticInstitute

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Glad you like them!

Only God, in His infinite wisdom, could create in the way that He has. Organizing an ordered and intelligible world, guiding it along, and ending up with everything exactly as He had envisioned it. God does not create things as we do. If this world came about after billions of years, then that is only further proof of just how truly limitless God's wisdom is. We don't need proof that the universe is ordered and intelligible. All we need is the willingness to give credit to it's rightful creator. By the way, I love the work that you guys do, and I'm so grateful that I found this channel!

Explanation of Proverb 8 was a revelation. "Describing wisdom as both delighting God and taking delight in human beings this passage expresses wisdom's ability to join humans beings to God in a relationship of intimacy." Thank you!

This video strongly reminds me of Franciscan spirituality

So cool.

Thank you! I’m a fan of this channel. But I would just like to ask though if subtitles/captions would later on be added just like before for the more recent ones? They help a lot. Unless of course if it’s too much of a hassle, which I understand.

I love the presentations BUT the audio is loaded with background crackling --1920 quality!

Nothing about how the pre-existent eternal Wisdom of Proverbs 8 is Christ himself, the divine Logos?

In ST I, 96 ad 2um, Thomas is clear that the predation, suffering and death of animals precedes the Fall when he states that to think "lions once ate grass is "omnino irrationale". Animal suffering and death is therefore directly willed by the supposedly wise and loving Creator. Care to comment?

The non-rational creatures and non-living things of creation depict, reflect, and express God's wisdom through their presence and realities. The rational creatures through their intellect see, relate, and bring good sense of the things around them, formulating wisdom and hence bring rational truths that direct them to goodness and happiness. God's ever-present reality in his divine love and wisdom reaches out to those who have opened their minds and will to wisdom, guiding them to His divine presence and revelation that He is the sole Creator and Savior that all human beings truly seek in their essence of existence.

If Wisdom is personification, isn't God?

I love Dominicans, but I also find their theological rationalizations kinda boring and disincarnated, it's as if you want to explain a joke technically it loses all the fun, unless you are into joke technicalities... "Personification" is not a technique that some poet uses to describe reality, it's rather the very lens by which we see reality, everything we encounter we personify, because we are persons, and we humanize absolutely everything because we are humans, we can't do something else, the human experience is perceived through human perception, in a human way, etc... The crazy thing is not what the scribe did, but rather the fact that now we have created a "science and theology" that is not personified, not incarnated, a dehumanized "science and theology" and by doing that we dehumanize the human experience... God became human, he is actually the most human person ever, yet for some reason Dominicans love to talk about God in an abstract manner, even the triquetra image you guys use to show us "God" it's just silly and inhumane. There is a reason why we genuflect when we read or pray "And the Word was made flesh And dwelt among us." The whole divine plan of God was to become human to love and care for his creation as a human so that creation could see his Godly glory shine through a human...

@NTNG13

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I believe their approach is suited for more logically minded individuals who are used to looking at the world in a rationalized way, some people are not opposed to the faith but it was never properly thought to them and the Dominicans present the teachings in a way that's methodical, practical and super importantly it makes SENSE in an intellectual/philosophical way (keeping some amount of faith in the teachings ofc). Their approach might not be for everyone but it's just as important and succesful as presenting Catholic teachings as more mystical or experiential variants of Catholic spirituality.

@AprendeMovimiento

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@@NTNG13 Keeping with my analogy, there are people who enjoy the technical aspects of jokes, the comedian Jimmy Carr gets very deep into technical and scientific analysis of jokes and comedy in general, but in the end the whole point is to make jokes that make people laugh... Theology must be brought down to the experiential level of people, if it stays high up in the clouds of abstractions then it becomes "elitist" in a sense, theology only for the academic minded, being a realist is not about intellectual abstractions, I mean Saint Thomas Aquinas had remedies for Sorrow like "weeping, sharing our sorrow with friends..." he was a Saint because of that, he was able to go to the highest abstractions yet bring them down to the most simple minded, Saints help bring about the prayer "thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven", they incarnate a piece of the kingdom of heaven here on earth.

@leonardovieira4445

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@@AprendeMovimiento "This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth." In no way does the lucid and rational exposition of the Faith (in what it is understandable by reason) makes it elitist, inaccessible or spiritually bland! On the contrary, the deeper the adequacy of human rationality to divine Wisdom, the greater the intensity and delicacy of spiritual life tends to be, for the will becomes more perfectly enlightened about the good to which it must love.

@neptasur

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I imagine this seem very profound when you're on acid. No, really.

@AprendeMovimiento

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​@@leonardovieira4445 the problem is not the approach in itself, the problem is that the Dominican way of categorizing reality and the language used is 1 of many, to believe that because the categorization occurs in Latin, or that it occurs through certain Thomistic and Aristotelic categories then it is more "rational" than others, it's what is silly about it. People tend to think of these languages as "more precise" or more "logical and reasonable" but that is simply not true at all, this language is simply different, every language and every category system is precise to the aspect of reality they want to point us, but they are simply different, an aspect of the whole, the problem is that as Saint Thomas Aquinas says "bonum ex integra causa, malum ex quocumque defectu" the good comes from an integral cause, meaning that the good is understood in a integral and congruent hierarchy, once you detach an aspect from it's integral reality then it becomes an evil, all ideologies are born due to this mistake, the lack of consideration of the whole as a whole, Aristotle said that "the whole is greater than the sum of the parts" and many Dominicans tend to forget that and in doing so they tend to depersonalize and dehumanize everything, everything becomes abstract and about universals as if reality is not expressed in particulars and as if the most important aspect of Catholic Theology is "the incarnation" God became human, and a human is not a bunch of abstract universals, neither is a human his accidents but the graceful link and organization of both into the particularity that each person is, the same happens with reality as a whole, Jesus Christ as a human said "I am The Way, The Truth and The Life", thus we must understand that Jesus Christ the human is reality, he is the whole ("All things were made by him: and without him was made nothing that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men." St. John 1:3-4). We must stop dehumanizing and depersonalizing our theology and our philosophy, reality is simply not a bunch of scientific and abstract things.