It's extremely criminal how low the view counts are for these Thomistic Institute videos considering the high production quality, excellent animation and world-class exposition of the subject matter. These Dominican priests are amazing! Makes me want to join the Dominicans even though I feel more drawn to contemplative orders (also, I'm not smart like Fr. Dominic or Fr. Gregory Pine lol)
If you'd spread the word about the videos, we'd love it! We'd like more views, of course!!! And we Dominicans do regard ourselves as contemplatives: St. Thomas is a great teacher of the contemplative life! You don't have to be an academic to be a Dominican, so maybe you should consider it. . . .
The dominican motto is “to pass on the fruits of contemplation”. So....yeah! Go for it! I lived next to the Dom House of Studies in DC and can assure you that Dominicans are of many different gifts and not all are focused on thomistic philosophy. In fact, they are healthy because they have many friars who mainly desire the life of contemplation in a less intellectually rigorous way.
Hi there S.S.. If ever it becomes a crime to not listen to your leaders, no matter how good they are, you'll know you're living in a tyranny. Cheers, P.R.
I hope and pray the next Pontiff is a Dominican like Pope St Pius V. Excellent fruit of the contemplation of the Dominican friars. Thank you for sharing and enlightenment. Blessed be God forever!
@@ThomisticInstitute I couldn't agree more. A great Defender of the Catholic Faith against the Church corruption, scandals and the Reformation. Pope St. Pius V, pray for us!
00:00 Developement, stability and spontaneity of disposition of natural or acquired virtues, like justice, and courage: by repeated action by practice towards the goal of human excellence. 00:29 Limits of nature and of natural virtues: theological virtues go beyond 00:53 Theological virtues understood by Aquinas: powers of the soul, infused into us by God himself and lead us to heaven, begining here and now! 01:19 Sacred Scripture: 3 theological virtues: faith hope and love and being disciple of Jesus 01:44 We know about Heaven (and virtues thourgh which we aspire to Heaven) thanks to Revelation, and in last term, through Christ 02:00 Aquinas makes distinction of two kinds or levels of happiness: 02:08 The first: natural level, happiness that a human being can obtain by his own natural powers by practicing, the natural virtues. Cardinal virtues of prudence, justice temperance and courage may be acquired by repeated good human actions, and thus let someone become who can reach the goal a flourishing and happy life on that natural level 02:52 The happiness of heaven of eternal life with god is something vastly higher. 03:00 Jesus teaches us that by being configured to him, we become adopted sons and daughters of God sharing, in the divine nature our own natural powers are not sufficient to raise us up to this; no amount of human training or moral effort would get us there without the help of GOD’S GRACE . 03:23 Apart from cardinal (natural) virtues, we also need something more to direct us to and makes us capable of living a SUPERNATURAL LIFE, IN SUPERNATURAL HAPPINESS , to be united to GOD himself 03:42 According to Aquinas there are 3 reasons they're called theological virtues that's from the Greek word for God ϑεός (Théos) 03:52 1st) Their object is God himself and they direct us to god 03:58 2nd) we cannot obtain the theological virtues by our natural powers. They must be directly infused in us by God himself 04:07 3rd) we only know about the theological virtues because God has revealed them to us in Sacred Scripture 04:14 Two major errors about the christian life 04:21 a) INSUFFICIENT natural power, MISUNDERSTOOD supernatural happiness: the first error is to think that we can somehow get to heaven by our own natural powers or that the life of heaven will be like a life of earthly happiness. 04:40 It seriously misunderstands that the life of God is infinitely above us. 04:47 Jesus promises us a share in this divine life, which we can only obtain through the GIFT of his GRACE: it's totally out of proportion to our human nature we don't deserve it and we cannot reach it on our own. 05:02 b) A PRIZE? The second error is to think that because it's given to us as a gift. Therefore it's a kind of prize bestowed on us after we die totally unrelated to how we lived our lives in this world. BUT THAT’S NOT WHAT JESUS TAUGHT EITHER! In fact God bestows the beginnings of eternal life on us EVEN AS WE LIVE IN THIS WORLD BY HIS GRACE. He infuses his divine life into our souls, He configures our minds and our hearts to Christ, and empowers us to live as his disciples here and now. 05:38 That's why saint Paul teaches that christians live no longer as men and women ‘of earth’, but as CITIZENS OF HEAVEN according to the power of Christ's resurrection which makes us die to sin and alive to God through faith, hope and love. 05:53 In short: we're supposed to live our lives according to the theological virtues. They elevate and transform our lives from the inside out. 06:17 Perfection through thological virtues: our capacities of knowing and of loving, or what Aquinas calls ‘our powers of intellect and of will’: the virtue of FAITH perfects our intellect by the light of natural reason, we're able to know and understand the things we encounter; faith bestows a new and higher light on our minds so that we're able to judge rightly about divine things and above all so that we believe what God has revealed to us in Christ faith thus allows us to attain to the Truth about God and makes us adhere to Him as we believe what He tells us. 07:04 In fact Aquinas says that faith makes us like the divine Son who proceeds from the Father by way of intellect as the Father's Word 07:14 The virtue of HOPE also has god as its object and makes us adhere to God, but it's not about our intellect grasping the Truth, rather hope elevates our will so that we place all our trust in God's help since He is perfectly good and the source of all goodness. 07:30 By hope we dare to reach for God himself, and we hope to OBTAIN THIS HAPPINESS FROM GOD ALONE. 07:37 We rely entirely on Him and place our lives and our futures completely in His hands 07:44 Finally the virtue of love or of CHARITY purifies and raises up our will so that it ceases to love the things of this world as final ends and begins TO LOVE GOD FOR HIS OWN SAKE and ABOVE ALL THINGS. 07:58 This supernatural virtue of love makes us like the Holy Spirit who proceeds from the Father and the Son as their mutual love. 08:06 This virtue above all others re-orders all of the priorities of the christian's life all of the christians loves even here and now in this world. If we act by this charity, theneverything we do as christians should point us back to God 08:29 Go to aquinas101.com 08:35 Don't forget to like and share with your friends because it matters what you think and believe.
I love watching your videos, it makes me more interested in getting to know God more and on a deeper level! Is it possible to be a Catholic Intellectual without entering a religious vocation?
Why then do I need cardinal virtues when it is through faith, hope and charity that God sanctifies us? Please provide an explanation, I am writing a paper on virtues and soteriology. Wonderful video and God Bless :)
Amongst the Theological Divine Virtues of Faith Hope and Charity which are all Gratuitous given by the Good Lord God freely without any consideration as our Deeds the most important of it all is the Virtue of Charity or Love. St Paul has said in his epistles I could have Faith that can move mountains but if i dont have Charity or Love doesn’t count for anything, I could have tongue to speak in many languages and is eloquent to easily convince and persuade other people and very well versed and highly educated in the Scriptures but have no Charity or love in my heart I count it as Dung! K
Amazing channel, a Godsend. I have a question : The theological virtues are revealed in the Scriptures but can they be also given by a mystical experience? Update...after a second viewing I realized that the virtues are infused by God but known by Scriptures. :) I love our dear Angelic Doctor
Yes, you've got it! They can of course also be given even to those who don't know explicitly what they are. Anyone who receives sanctifying grace is receiving by infusion the theological virtues.
Thank-you. I waited in vain to hear you say that we receive these Theological Virtues through baptism. Is this not correct? Can the unbaptized (thinking of my grandkids) turn to God and simply ask for faith, hope and love? Thank-you for your response. God bless you all. We really appreciate Aquinas 101. And may God grant you a blessed Christmas.🙏🏼
Yes, you're right about baptism! But there are some additional qualifications. At baptism, an infant receives the infusion of the habitual supernatural virtues of faith, hope, and love. But since you have to have reached the age of reason to USE those virtues, someone won't actually make an act of faith, hope, or charity until they're older. But the virtues are there, habitually, ready to be used and disposing you to use them. Now, for an adult who is baptized, the story is a bit different: because the adult is willingly making a free act in asking for baptism, those virtues are fully active in the reception of baptism itself. But there's more: isn't the catechumen who asks for baptism already making an act of faith? The answer is almost certainly yes in that case -- which shows us that in fact, you can receive the supernatural virtue of faith even BEFORE you are baptised. Can someone who is not baptized receive those virtues by infusion, then? The answer is yes. This may happen in the case of some non-Christians who honestly seek God according to the best lights they have been given. But in EVERY CASE, since these virtues are supernatural and are above our natural capacity, they must be directly infused by God. God, of course, is not limited by the sacraments, and so He can give them outside of the sacramental order to people who are not baptized. All the same, baptism is the normal way to receive a first infusion of those virtues, and if someone were deliberately to refuse or neglect to receive baptism, then there would be reason for concern. Normally, someone who receives the sanctifying gifts of supernatural faith, hope, and charity -- this is faith in Christ and love of Him, hope in Him -- will seek out and desire to be configured to Him more fully in the sacrament of baptism which He himself instituted and commanded us to perform.
@@ThomisticInstitute thank-you so much! I will encourage them to be faithful, be hopeful and to be charitable. You have given ME hope for them. These youngsters are seeking and their parents will have them baptized when the time seems right to them.Thanks 🙏🏼💜✝️
Glad to help! And let's pray for that intention! You might consider having some Masses offered for your grandkids (and your kids, too). Even if they don't know that Mass is being offered for them, it can have an effect in impetrating graces for them, and in disposing them to say "yes" to the grace of faith.
"... and the divine light is infinitly above us...", - equally: moral and intellectual virtues,- through lack of theological virtue, are infinitly far away from - you, - monks in robes! --but the Devil is not!(through the virtue of sinning)
Hi. For many years I've been treating "honesty" as the eighth cardinal virtue. Jesus makes it plain "Satan is the father of all lies" (John 8:44), which makes God the source of all honesty. (Except deliberately malicious honesty of course, but the 7 deadly sins don't include either malice or dishonesty: strange that!). We agree God is not malicious. HONESTY must be a theological virtue, because it attains all the benefits you ascribe to "faith". 1/ Honesty "perfects the intellect" because it distances people from Satan, the dishonest distorter of the intellect. 2/ Honesty "bestows a higher light on the mind" because if you sow the truth, you will reap the truth. 3/ Honesty "attains the truth about God", because if you "know the truth, the truth will set you free". 4/ Honesty "makes us like the divine word" because God cannot tell a lie. Do you think it would be too late to amend the cardinal virtues to include honesty? Cheers, P.R.
It's extremely criminal how low the view counts are for these Thomistic Institute videos considering the high production quality, excellent animation and world-class exposition of the subject matter. These Dominican priests are amazing! Makes me want to join the Dominicans even though I feel more drawn to contemplative orders (also, I'm not smart like Fr. Dominic or Fr. Gregory Pine lol)
If you'd spread the word about the videos, we'd love it! We'd like more views, of course!!! And we Dominicans do regard ourselves as contemplatives: St. Thomas is a great teacher of the contemplative life!
You don't have to be an academic to be a Dominican, so maybe you should consider it. . . .
@@ThomisticInstitute Of course, I will spread the word!
There's a Dominican house in a city nearby. And I really like the habit, so why not hahah
Maybe we have a future vocation here . . . ?
The dominican motto is “to pass on the fruits of contemplation”. So....yeah! Go for it! I lived next to the Dom House of Studies in DC and can assure you that Dominicans are of many different gifts and not all are focused on thomistic philosophy. In fact, they are healthy because they have many friars who mainly desire the life of contemplation in a less intellectually rigorous way.
Hi there S.S.. If ever it becomes a crime to not listen to your leaders, no matter how good they are, you'll know you're living in a tyranny. Cheers, P.R.
This channel is saving my Catholicism.
Excellent primer and a good reminder that I need to get Josef Pieper's book on faith hope & charity
It's excellent!
100,000,000,000 likes to this video! Thank yooooou so much Fr. Dominic Legge!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks to you!
@@ThomisticInstitute Thank you all!
Loving the subtle change in the bells at the end
Thanks!
I hope and pray the next Pontiff is a Dominican like Pope St Pius V. Excellent fruit of the contemplation of the Dominican friars. Thank you for sharing and enlightenment. Blessed be God forever!
Pope St. Pius V was one of the greats!!!
@@ThomisticInstitute I couldn't agree more. A great Defender of the Catholic Faith against the Church corruption, scandals and the Reformation. Pope St. Pius V, pray for us!
Thank you Aquinas 101, may God bless you!
Essential learning for today! Please keep these videos coming!
Will do!
Thank you for this excellent series.
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This is gold. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@ThomisticInstitute If possible, make a video on animal rights? Many people I know are going too far, making religion out of veganism. Thank you.
00:00 Developement, stability and spontaneity of disposition of natural or acquired virtues, like justice, and courage: by repeated action by practice towards the goal of human excellence.
00:29 Limits of nature and of natural virtues: theological virtues go beyond
00:53 Theological virtues understood by Aquinas:
powers of the soul, infused into us by God himself and lead us to heaven, begining here and now!
01:19 Sacred Scripture: 3 theological virtues: faith hope and love and being disciple of Jesus
01:44 We know about Heaven (and virtues thourgh which we aspire to Heaven) thanks to Revelation, and in last term, through Christ
02:00 Aquinas makes distinction of two kinds or levels of happiness:
02:08 The first: natural level, happiness that a human being can obtain by his own natural powers by practicing, the natural virtues. Cardinal virtues of prudence, justice temperance and courage may be acquired by repeated good human actions, and thus let someone become who can reach the goal a flourishing and happy life on that natural level
02:52 The happiness of heaven of eternal life with god is something vastly higher.
03:00 Jesus teaches us that by being configured to him, we become adopted sons and daughters of God sharing, in the divine nature our own natural powers are not sufficient to raise us up to this; no amount of human training or moral effort would get us there without the help of GOD’S GRACE .
03:23 Apart from cardinal (natural) virtues, we also need something more to direct us to and makes us capable of living a SUPERNATURAL LIFE, IN SUPERNATURAL HAPPINESS , to be united to GOD himself
03:42 According to Aquinas there are 3 reasons they're called theological virtues that's from the Greek word for God ϑεός (Théos)
03:52 1st) Their object is God himself and they direct us to god
03:58 2nd) we cannot obtain the theological virtues by our natural powers. They must be directly infused in us by God himself
04:07 3rd) we only know about the theological virtues because God has revealed them to us in Sacred Scripture
04:14 Two major errors about the christian life
04:21 a) INSUFFICIENT natural power, MISUNDERSTOOD supernatural happiness:
the first error is to think that we can somehow get to heaven by our own natural powers or that the life of heaven will be like a life of earthly happiness. 04:40 It seriously misunderstands that the life of God is infinitely above us. 04:47 Jesus promises us a share in this divine life, which we can only obtain through the GIFT of his GRACE: it's totally out of proportion to our human nature we don't deserve it and we cannot reach it on our own.
05:02 b) A PRIZE?
The second error is to think that because it's given to us as a gift. Therefore it's a kind of prize bestowed on us after we die totally unrelated to how we lived our lives in this world. BUT THAT’S NOT WHAT JESUS TAUGHT EITHER! In fact God bestows the beginnings of eternal life on us EVEN AS WE LIVE IN THIS WORLD BY HIS GRACE. He infuses his divine life into our souls, He configures our minds and our hearts to Christ, and empowers us to live as his disciples here and now.
05:38 That's why saint Paul teaches that christians live no longer as men and women ‘of earth’, but as CITIZENS OF HEAVEN according to the power of Christ's resurrection which makes us die to sin and alive to God through faith, hope and love.
05:53 In short: we're supposed to live our lives according to the theological virtues. They elevate and transform our lives from the inside out.
06:17 Perfection through thological virtues:
our capacities of knowing and of loving, or what Aquinas calls ‘our powers of intellect and of will’: the virtue of FAITH perfects our intellect by the light of natural reason, we're able to know and understand the things we encounter; faith bestows a new and higher light on our minds so that we're able to judge rightly about divine things and above all so that we believe what God has revealed to us in Christ faith thus allows us to attain to the Truth about God and makes us adhere to Him as we believe what He tells us. 07:04 In fact Aquinas says that faith makes us like the divine Son who proceeds from the Father by way of intellect as the Father's Word
07:14 The virtue of HOPE also has god as its object and makes us adhere to God, but it's not about our intellect grasping the Truth, rather hope elevates our will so that we place all our trust in God's help since He is perfectly good and the source of all goodness. 07:30 By hope we dare to reach for God himself, and we hope to OBTAIN THIS HAPPINESS FROM GOD ALONE. 07:37 We rely entirely on Him and place our lives and our futures completely in His hands
07:44 Finally the virtue of love or of CHARITY purifies and raises up our will so that it ceases to love the things of this world as final ends and begins TO LOVE GOD FOR HIS OWN SAKE and ABOVE ALL THINGS. 07:58 This supernatural virtue of love makes us like the Holy Spirit who proceeds from the Father and the Son as their mutual love. 08:06 This virtue above all others re-orders all of the priorities of the christian's life all of the christians loves even here and now in this world. If we act by this charity, theneverything we do as christians should point us back to God
08:29 Go to aquinas101.com
08:35 Don't forget to like and share with your friends because it matters what you think and believe.
Love is all you need.
I’ve just purchased the whole Secunda Secundae Partis! I’m very excited to read it, especially the first 46 questions about the Holy Virtues.
Wonderful!
Great job, thank you. Greetings from an italian seminarian.
Thanks to YOU!
Fascinating video, thanks!
Our pleasure!
Love these videos. The free knowledge that you guys provide are so valuable.
On behalf of him, Fr. Legge would welcome a donation in the amount of value you believe these videos have for you.
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Going to buy Aquinas' book volumes so I hope that helps. Godspeed.
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Really excellent video, very well done!
I love watching your videos, it makes me more interested in getting to know God more and on a deeper level! Is it possible to be a Catholic Intellectual without entering a religious vocation?
Great initiative. God bless !
Thank you!
amazing.
This is inspiring!
Superb!!!
Thanks a lot
Why then do I need cardinal virtues when it is through faith, hope and charity that God sanctifies us? Please provide an explanation, I am writing a paper on virtues and soteriology.
Wonderful video and God Bless :)
Amongst the Theological Divine Virtues of Faith Hope and Charity which are all Gratuitous given by the Good Lord God freely without any consideration as our Deeds the most important of it all is the Virtue of Charity or Love. St Paul has said in his epistles I could have Faith that can move mountains but if i dont have Charity or Love doesn’t count for anything, I could have tongue to speak in many languages and is eloquent to easily convince and persuade other people and very well versed and highly educated in the Scriptures but have no Charity or love in my heart I count it as Dung! K
Amazing channel, a Godsend. I have a question : The theological virtues are revealed in the Scriptures but can they be also given by a mystical experience? Update...after a second viewing I realized that the virtues are infused by God but known by Scriptures. :) I love our dear Angelic Doctor
Yes, you've got it! They can of course also be given even to those who don't know explicitly what they are. Anyone who receives sanctifying grace is receiving by infusion the theological virtues.
Thank-you. I waited in vain to hear you say that we receive these Theological Virtues through baptism. Is this not correct? Can the unbaptized (thinking of my grandkids) turn to God and simply ask for faith, hope and love? Thank-you for your response. God bless you all. We really appreciate Aquinas 101. And may God grant you a blessed Christmas.🙏🏼
Yes, you're right about baptism! But there are some additional qualifications. At baptism, an infant receives the infusion of the habitual supernatural virtues of faith, hope, and love. But since you have to have reached the age of reason to USE those virtues, someone won't actually make an act of faith, hope, or charity until they're older. But the virtues are there, habitually, ready to be used and disposing you to use them. Now, for an adult who is baptized, the story is a bit different: because the adult is willingly making a free act in asking for baptism, those virtues are fully active in the reception of baptism itself.
But there's more: isn't the catechumen who asks for baptism already making an act of faith? The answer is almost certainly yes in that case -- which shows us that in fact, you can receive the supernatural virtue of faith even BEFORE you are baptised.
Can someone who is not baptized receive those virtues by infusion, then? The answer is yes. This may happen in the case of some non-Christians who honestly seek God according to the best lights they have been given. But in EVERY CASE, since these virtues are supernatural and are above our natural capacity, they must be directly infused by God. God, of course, is not limited by the sacraments, and so He can give them outside of the sacramental order to people who are not baptized.
All the same, baptism is the normal way to receive a first infusion of those virtues, and if someone were deliberately to refuse or neglect to receive baptism, then there would be reason for concern. Normally, someone who receives the sanctifying gifts of supernatural faith, hope, and charity -- this is faith in Christ and love of Him, hope in Him -- will seek out and desire to be configured to Him more fully in the sacrament of baptism which He himself instituted and commanded us to perform.
@@ThomisticInstitute thank-you so much! I will encourage them to be faithful, be hopeful and to be charitable. You have given ME hope for them. These youngsters are seeking and their parents will have them baptized when the time seems right to them.Thanks 🙏🏼💜✝️
Glad to help! And let's pray for that intention! You might consider having some Masses offered for your grandkids (and your kids, too). Even if they don't know that Mass is being offered for them, it can have an effect in impetrating graces for them, and in disposing them to say "yes" to the grace of faith.
@@ThomisticInstitute ThankYou! We will do it. 🙏🏼
Dont men baptize people. Not god.
Cool
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Can evil people possess virtue? As in is it possible for them to cultivate even natural virtue when apart from God's saving grace?
I think so.
Thank you very much! I have a question: Does God infuse the theological virtues into everyone (e.g. irrespective of religion)?
St Thomas teaches giving this a thumbs down gets you to the lake of fire 😇😬
Well, that's probably a bit stronger than I would have said, but I appreciate your enthusiasm!
Okay like it little bit or not😅
"... and the divine light is infinitly above us...", - equally: moral and intellectual virtues,- through lack of theological virtue, are infinitly far away from - you, - monks in robes!
--but the Devil is not!(through the virtue of sinning)
Hi. For many years I've been treating "honesty" as the eighth cardinal virtue. Jesus makes it plain "Satan is the father of all lies" (John 8:44), which makes God the source of all honesty. (Except deliberately malicious honesty of course, but the 7 deadly sins don't include either malice or dishonesty: strange that!). We agree God is not malicious.
HONESTY must be a theological virtue, because it attains all the benefits you ascribe to "faith".
1/ Honesty "perfects the intellect" because it distances people from Satan, the dishonest distorter of the intellect.
2/ Honesty "bestows a higher light on the mind" because if you sow the truth, you will reap the truth.
3/ Honesty "attains the truth about God", because if you "know the truth, the truth will set you free".
4/ Honesty "makes us like the divine word" because God cannot tell a lie.
Do you think it would be too late to amend the cardinal virtues to include honesty?
Cheers, P.R.
Couldnt find any eggs, unsubbed >:(