Commanding Prudence | Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, O.P.

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🗓️ 1 December 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

This lecture was given on October 31, 2020 as part of "Choosing Well: Practical Wisdom in an Impractical Age" Intellectual Retreat at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C.

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Speaker Bio:

A native of Louisiana, Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, O.P., entered the Dominican Province of St. Joseph in 2005. After several years of pastoral work in New York City, Fr. Guilbeau began doctoral studies in moral theology at the University of Fribourg, where he completed a dissertation on St. Thomas Aquinas’s doctrine of the common good. In addition to his teaching as a professor of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception, Fr. Guilbeau serves as senior editor of Aleteia.org (English edition). He is also the current prior of the Dominican House of Studies.

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0:00.0	This talk is brought to you by the Tamistic Institute.
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0:10.6	Thanks also to the vocation office and to the Timistic Institute for the invitation to speak to you this morning
0:16.2	and to continue the conversation that you've been having about prudence.
0:20.0	Hopefully up to now you've come to realize how important prudence is to the moral life.
0:25.6	How important prudence is to human life.
0:28.6	It's the queen of the moral virtues.
0:31.6	Aquinas reflecting Aristotle observed that every action that we undertake in some way is the fruit of prudence.
0:41.5	It results from prudence, or at least it results from the unfolding of the steps of prudence,
0:46.9	which we'll look at a little more closely today.
0:50.7	There's nothing in life that we accomplish, no act that we undertake or achieve that isn't the result in some way of prudence.
1:00.0	And so, as the queen of the moral virtues, prudence deserves, requires our attention, not just to appreciate it from afar, but to learn to help ourselves to learn how it is that we can grow in this virtue, how we can develop this virtue in us, how we can perfect this virtue in us.
1:24.4	And again, it's important to realize, again, that every act that we undertake is the result of prudence.
1:29.9	And this goes for especially something like vocational discernment, which I think a lot of people underappreciate or, in fact, don't appreciate at all,
1:40.9	that even though we act in a certain way or achieve our goals in a certain way through prudence
1:46.0	and the whole of life, some folks have this notion that somehow vocational discernment is different
1:51.5	or choosing our vocation, choosing our state in life is somehow different, that what we have to do
1:57.5	there, I have had men and women sit in my office explaining that this is
2:02.4	their approach to vocation to discernment, picking it up somewhere, that they have to void
2:06.5	their mind of any kind of claim to truth.
2:09.5	They have to void their will of any kind of desire and love and just present before the
2:14.5	Lord a blank slate, absolutely waiting for him simply to impress his will upon us.
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