G'day and welcome to Points with Aquinas.

My name is Matt Fratt and today I am joined around the bar table by Father Gregory Pine to discuss

a bunch of tomistic metaphysical jargon that will help you understand Aquinas better.

Welcome!

To Points with Aquinas, the show where you and I pull up a bar stool next to the angelic doctor

to discuss theology and philosophy, listen to what we're going to discuss today.

Buckle up. Do you know what these words mean? Metaphysics, substance, accident,

property, genus, species, form, matter, act, potency, good evil being, essence, existence, nature,

cause, teleology. I think we even get into hypostasis. So buckle up. This is a great episode.

The reason I wanted to do this episode at the front of the year is that I know many of you would

like to read more about Thomas Aquinas or not about him but him and I think this will help you.

It was a good episode. Father Gregory Pine, such a bloody champion. So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

that's it. I want to share something funny with you. This just happened to me and I cannot believe

it happened. My wife just was at the SLS Focus Conference. She got to get a photo with Cardinal

Mueller who is a rock star. And in this photo, it's my lovely wife and two daughters.

And you think I sweet? No, well, it is, but Avala, my eldest daughter, has a gigantic sticker

on her face. You cannot see her forehead at all. Barely see her eyes, okay? And it's of Thomas

Aquinas shooting a fireball at Richard Dawkins. So I'll be uploading that to social media.

And I, you know, just the one chance we had to have a nice photo there with Cardinal Mueller,

but well, these things happened, don't they? How do you want to show you something really cool?

Check this out. Your father prayer challenge.

And the gospel of Matthew. Check out. Our nice is her voice.

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