Freedom, Desire, and Happiness | Father Dominic Legge, O.P.

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🗓️ 28 July 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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This lecture was given on June 12, 2023 at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. as part of the 2023 Civitas Dei Summer Fellowship: "Friendship, Happiness, and the Search for God: Aristotle, Augustine, & Aquinas" For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website: thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events Speaker Bio: 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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1:14.9	And I know Father Ambrose just said a prayer, but I'm going to say another one to invoke the Holy Spirit.
1:17.2	Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful, and enkindle in them the fire of your love.
1:22.6	Send forth your spirit, and they shall be created, and you shall renew the face of the earth.
1:28.1	Let us pray. O God, who by the light of, and you shall renew the face of the earth. Let us pray.
1:32.2	O God, who by the light of the Holy Spirit did instruct the hearts of the faithful,
1:37.1	granted by the same Spirit they may be truly wise and ever rejoice in His consolation.
1:42.0	To Christ our Lord, amen. St. Thomas Aquinas, pray for us.
1:44.0	Father and Son, Holy Spirit, amen.
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