Duc In Altum The Theological Greatness Of Pope St. John Paul II - Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P.

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🗓️ 12 November 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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About the speaker:

Fr. Dominic Legge is the Director of the Thomistic Institute and an assistant professor in systematic theology at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. he holds a JD from Yale Law School, a PhL from the School of Philosophy of the Catholic University of America, and a doctorate in Sacred Theology from the University of Fribourg. He entered the Order of preachers in 2001 and was ordained a priest in 2007. He practiced law for several years as a trial attorney for the US Department of Justice before becoming a Dominican. He is the author of The Trinitarian Christology of St. Thomas Aquinas.

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0:00.0	Pope St. John Paul II deserves to be called the Great.
0:05.0	And there are many reasons for that. He was a great man, a great saint, and, as I hope to underline in this talk,
0:11.0	he was a great teacher of the faith, a great theologian.
0:14.0	Now, speaking on a personal level, John Paul II was enormously important for me,
0:19.0	and for very many other priests that I know, certainly
0:22.0	many Dominicans, but many priests that I've met.
0:25.5	In our Dominican community here in Washington, D.C., many of us were inspired to consider
0:30.6	the priesthood and religious life by his words and his witness.
0:35.3	But one of the other reasons that I think, at least for me, it's so touching to
0:39.8	reflect back on John Paul II, why he was such an important figure, is that it's extraordinarily
0:44.3	unusual, I think, especially for those of us living here in the United States, to sense some
0:50.7	kind of personal connection or direct contact, you might say, with a saint,
0:56.1	and especially in the case of a great saint like John Paul II. Even though most of us never
1:02.8	met him in person, I never had the privilege of shaking his hand, I was close to him. I was physically
1:09.5	close a few times on pilgrimage in Rome, but even if he was in Rome and I was in the U.S., it seemed, I think you could say he was near to us.
1:21.6	So here in Washington, D.C., at the Dominican House of Studies, we're right across the street from the Catholic University of America campus and the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.
1:32.3	John Paul II came here and spoke with young people on the steps of that basilica, which is
1:38.3	just really a stone's throw away from where I'm standing right now.
1:43.3	And of course many of us saw his visits in person in the a stone's throw away from where I'm standing right now.
1:44.2	And of course, many of us saw his visits in person in the US,
1:48.8	or at a World Youth Day, or on pilgrimage in Rome.
1:52.3	But more than this physical proximity,
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