Devoutly I Adore Thee: The Eucharistic Poetry and Prayer of St. Thomas Aquinas | Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P.

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🗓️ 17 July 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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This lecture was given on June 29th, 2024, at The Dominican House of Studies.

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About the Speaker:

Fr. Dominic Legge is the Director of the Thomistic Institute and Associate Professor in Systematic Theology at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. He is an Ordinary Member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas, and holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, a Ph.L. from the School of Philosophy of the Catholic University of America, and a doctorate in Sacred Theology from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. He entered the Order of Preachers in 2001, after having practiced constitutional law for several years as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice. He has also taught at The Catholic University of America Law School and at Providence College. He is the author of The Trinitarian Christology of St. Thomas Aquinas (Oxford University Press, 2017).

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0:25.9	Why be a Thomist?
0:28.8	That's the central question of this conference,
0:32.4	our first ever Veritas conference.
0:35.3	And my talk this morning will argue
0:37.4	that being a Thomist not only helps your
0:41.1	mind to know the truth, but that knowing this truth, above all, sacred truth, the truth about
0:50.0	God, is a healing remedy for your mind that helps you to pray, which is to say, it helps you to
1:00.2	come to know God better as your Savior and your friend. It helps you to praise and thank him
1:07.0	better for all that he has done and is doing for you.
1:12.4	And it helps you to be united to him in love more and more profoundly.
1:18.6	So we're going to take as our central text this morning, a famous text from Aquinas,
1:25.6	something that he often doesn't get enough credit for,
1:28.9	which is being actually a great poet, a great medieval Latin poet, a theological poet.
1:36.9	So we'll be taking a look at the Adorote Devote.
1:40.0	It's a hymn that many of you probably know and probably have sung many times,
1:46.6	for example, at adoration in the presence of Christ in the Eucharist.
1:51.1	But what I hope to do is show you some of the hidden meaning of that beautiful text from Aquinas.
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