Thank you religious, I an unworthy sinner, have been looking for the right direction in spiritual contemplation. As a father and Catholic who works at n the world I need this, others need this. As I meditate on the mysteries today I pray for success of all Catholic universities in communion with Holy Mother church. And for you religious please ask St Aquinas to pray for me, a miserable sinner.
9:00 _"Aquinas holds that God is the source of both faith and reason"_ Faith and reason are not two coordinate substances. Faith is one possible and infidelity another possible quality of faith, as is the non-faith of those who never had as yet any chance (which differs from infidelity).
I just love what Aquinas said toward the end of his life. As he was saying Mass, he had some kind of divine revelation which caused him to say that all he had written was straw, even leaving his Summa Theologiae unfinished. We need to consider what straw is. It is the part of the grain harvest that has no value insofar as human consumption. No nutritional value. The Divine revelation that he so graciously received toward the end of his life forced him to see that. We would do well to heed his own assessment that all he had written was "Straw". And, by the way, all Divine Truth is contained in the Word. We no longer need human reasoning or philosophy. No need to reconcile faith and reason(truth). Both are entirely contained in the Person described below. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God... In Him was life, and the Life was the Light of men. The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it." John 1:1, 4-5 Fortunately, at the end of his life, Thomas did finally comprehend "it". Praise God forevermore. And his Son.
I understand the sentiment, especially as a philosophy student that find many “thomists” suspisciously rationalistic and a-historical in their approach to philosophy. (You knew, the kind of “Every philosopher after St. Thomas just went blatantly wrong on everything! I’m sorry, but there is so much worth in the much hated Kant! Even if there are dangerous mistakes) But going all on fideism... that’s just blatantly wrong! Yes, Saint Thomas said it was straw... and it was! But what did Christ told him? “You’ve done a good work” Why would Christ say something like that if He did not appreciate it? Christ was pleased with that straw. Like a Father is pleased with the drawing of their infant son, so Christ was with St. Thomas work. For how fallible and weak our human reason can be, Christ still gave it to us so that reason and faith may be two wings of the same bird. Not even Kierkegaard would deny that. You’re right that Truth is revealed in the Person of Christ! But when you love a person, you love with every part of yourself: with your heart, with your reason and your faith! It would not be good not to give everything, isn’t it? :P
@@parmiggianoreggie-ano1832 "We no longer need human reasoning or philosophy. No need to reconcile faith and reason(truth)." How do you qualify these statements?
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Thank you religious, I an unworthy sinner, have been looking for the right direction in spiritual contemplation. As a father and Catholic who works at n the world I need this, others need this. As I meditate on the mysteries today I pray for success of all Catholic universities in communion with Holy Mother church. And for you religious please ask St Aquinas to pray for me, a miserable sinner.
Thanks for keeping the great fire of Thomas alive 🔥
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Amazing reflection on Thomas, our Angelic Doctor, friend.
Thank you giving such an inspiring homily.
That this most holy of men did not have the dialogues of Plato at his disposal is a great tragedy!
True, but he had at least some of St. Augustine works, so in a great part that was captured and augmented by the saint.
Thank you very much for sharing this podcast.
Amen
Can you say on holy Spirit, real presence of the holy Eucharist and the spiritual heaven.
9:00 _"Aquinas holds that God is the source of both faith and reason"_
Faith and reason are not two coordinate substances. Faith is one possible and infidelity another possible quality of faith, as is the non-faith of those who never had as yet any chance (which differs from infidelity).
I just love what Aquinas said toward the end of his life. As he was saying Mass, he had some kind of divine revelation which caused him to say that all he had written was straw, even leaving his Summa Theologiae unfinished.
We need to consider what straw is. It is the part of the grain harvest that has no value insofar as human consumption. No nutritional value. The Divine revelation that he so graciously received toward the end of his life forced him to see that. We would do well to heed his own assessment that all he had written was "Straw".
And, by the way, all Divine Truth is contained in the Word. We no longer need human reasoning or philosophy.
No need to reconcile faith and reason(truth). Both are entirely contained in the Person described below.
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God... In Him was life, and the Life was the Light of men. The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it."
John 1:1, 4-5
Fortunately, at the end of his life, Thomas did finally comprehend "it".
Praise God forevermore. And his Son.
You are fideistic and dishonest.
I understand the sentiment, especially as a philosophy student that find many “thomists” suspisciously rationalistic and a-historical in their approach to philosophy.
(You knew, the kind of “Every philosopher after St. Thomas just went blatantly wrong on everything! I’m sorry, but there is so much worth in the much hated Kant! Even if there are dangerous mistakes)
But going all on fideism... that’s just blatantly wrong!
Yes, Saint Thomas said it was straw... and it was!
But what did Christ told him? “You’ve done a good work”
Why would Christ say something like that if He did not appreciate it? Christ was pleased with that straw.
Like a Father is pleased with the drawing of their infant son, so Christ was with St. Thomas work.
For how fallible and weak our human reason can be, Christ still gave it to us so that reason and faith may be two wings of the same bird.
Not even Kierkegaard would deny that.
You’re right that Truth is revealed in the Person of Christ!
But when you love a person, you love with every part of yourself: with your heart, with your reason and your faith!
It would not be good not to give everything, isn’t it? :P
@@parmiggianoreggie-ano1832 "We no longer need human reasoning or philosophy. No need to reconcile faith and reason(truth)."
How do you qualify these statements?
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