Hello, my name is Father Gregory Pine and I'm a Dominican friar of the province of St Joseph.

I teach at the Dominican House of Studies and I work for the domestic Institute and this is Pines with Aquinas.

You have probably heard it said that good things come to those who wait, but I think many of us find it difficult to be patient because we don't necessarily see the sense in it or we find it hard to derive meaning or purpose in the midst of our

pain and suffering. So I want to talk a little bit about patience, how we can

profit from it, how we can cultivate it as a virtue, and ultimately how we can see it through to its term.

Here we go.

So I've talked about patients before specifically under the rubric of courage or bravery or perhaps you've heard it called

fortitude if you're super stylish and basically when talking about this virtue we

divide it between the parts of the virtue

which help you to kind of get after it or attack and then the parts of the virtue which

help you to bear it up or endure.

And in the latter category,

we put the virtue of patience.

Okay, so patience helps us to hold fast

to what is good, or maybe if you're kind of like into sweet philosophical or theological

descriptions, it preserves or conserves the rule of reason, despite the experience or in the

midst of the experience of sadness.

Here I think, St Thomas describes two of the main obstacles to the good life,

that would be sadness and then duration or length.

So when we think about like our lives and we think about the fact that they're hard,

usually, you know, obviously there are things in our lives which kind of leap out of the fabric, the

warp and woof as it were, but like the two kind of general features of life which

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