Faith, Mysticism, and the 'Dark Night Of The Soul' | Father Dominic Legge

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🗓️ 18 December 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P., is the Director of the Thomistic Institute and an Assistant Professor in systematic theology at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. He 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. 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 U.S. Department of Justice before becoming a Dominican.

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0:57.9	The title of this talk is faith, mysticism, and the Dark Night of the Soul. In contemporary Catholic spirituality,
1:06.7	it seems to me people are often very interested in this subject,
1:11.6	especially if you talk about mysticism and the Dark Night of the Soul.
1:16.6	And I think sometimes contemporary Catholics can get very attracted by this idea,
1:23.6	or perhaps even tied up in it, in a way that as a confessor and a spiritual director,
1:31.9	I think sometimes priests find, you know, to be maybe over-emphasized.
1:38.7	And yet it does seem to express some important reality about the spiritual life, about the Christian life,
1:46.0	about how to grow in the spiritual life. And so what I'm hoping to do this evening is to talk
1:52.0	a little bit about these ideas and to situate them in a proper theological framework,
1:59.2	to understand them as a part of the structure, you might say,
2:03.5	of how God reveals himself and draws us to himself.
2:09.0	So maybe we could start off by, you know, looking at some of the wrong emphases or over-emphasies
2:17.1	that sometimes are found in contemporary spiritual circles.
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