Love, Addiction, and Self-Reliance in The Confessions of St. Augustine | Sr. Jane Dominic Laurel, OP

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🗓️ 26 October 2022

⏱️ 76 minutes

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This lecture was given at Vanderbilt University on September 29, 2022. For information on upcoming events, visit our website at thomisticinstitute.org About the speaker: Sr. Jane Dominic Laurel is a member of the St. Cecilia Congregation of Dominican Sisters of Nashville, Tennessee and currently serves as Associate Professor of Theology at Aquinas College in Nashville, TN. She received her Doctorate in Sacred Theology from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome, Italy. She has been active in her religious community's teaching apostolate for over fifteen years and has assisted with the theological formation of the newest members of her religious congregation. In addition to contributing articles to a number of journals and magazines, including the Vatican newspaper (L'Osservatore Romano), The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, The Linacre Quarterly, and the Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings, Sister has served as editor-in-chief of her Congregation's book, Praying as a Family (also available in Spanish, Chinese, and Arabic versions). With EWTN, she directed a television series of the same title. She has also served as the creator and founding Director of the University of Dallas Studies in Catholic Faith & Culture Program.

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0:11.8	In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen.
0:16.4	Breathe in me, O Holy Spirit, but my thoughts may all be holy.
0:25.6	Act in me, a Holy Spirit, that my thoughts may all be holy. Act in me, a Holy Spirit, that my work too may be holy. Draw my heart, O Holy Spirit, that I love but what is holy.
0:31.6	Strengthen me, O Holy Spirit, to defend all that is holy.
0:36.6	Guard me, then, O Holy Spirit, that I always may be holy. Amen.
0:44.2	St. Augustine. Pray for us. In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
0:50.7	So the topic tonight is love, addiction, and self-reliance in the confessions of St. Augustine.
0:58.7	And I just wanted to make a couple preliminary remarks that this topic is something really
1:05.6	close to my heart. And that's actually been really revolutionary in my life. And Augustine, I think,
1:09.9	is probably my number one hero next to Jesus.
1:12.9	So I really love St. Augustine.
1:14.6	And actually, when I was in middle school, I was like, well,
1:16.9	told her, and my sister came home one day from school.
1:20.1	And she said, you know what St. Augustine says?
1:23.2	I'm like, I don't know who St. Augustine is.
1:25.7	You know what St. Augustine is. You know what St. Augustine said? He said, do not seek to believe, no.
1:31.3	Do not seek to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
1:37.3	Isn't that gorgeous?
1:38.3	Do not seek to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand. And so from that moment, I was
1:45.8	captivated by St. Augustine. And then I had the great gift of going on to study at the University
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