Prayer, Holiness, and the Intellectual Life | Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P.

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🗓️ 26 September 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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This lecture was offered at the 2020 Student Leadership Conference held in Estes Park, CO from August 2nd - August 6th.

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Speaker Bio:

Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P., is the Director of the Thomistic Institute and 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 in Switzerland. He entered the Order of Preachers in 2001, after having practiced constitutional law for several years as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice. He has also taught at The Catholic University of America Law School and at Providence College. He is the author of The Trinitarian Christology of St. Thomas Aquinas (Oxford University Press, 2016).

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0:00.0	Thank you very much, Father Ephraim, and thank you to all of you for being here.
0:09.3	This talk is entitled Prayer, Holiness, and the Intellectual Life, so I think maybe we should
0:14.0	begin with a prayer.
0:16.3	In the name of the Father and of the Son and the Holy Spirit, Amen.
0:19.9	Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful,
0:22.5	and enkindle them the fire of your love. Send forth your spirit, and they shall be created,
0:27.2	and you shall renew the face of the earth. Let us pray. Oh, God, who by the light of the Holy Spirit,
0:32.7	it instruct the hearts of the faithful, grant that by the same spirit they may be truly wise
0:37.1	and ever rejoice in
0:38.2	his consolation through Christ our Lord. Amen. St. Thomas Aquinas, pray for us. The name of the
0:44.2	Father and the Son, the Holy Spirit. Amen. So prayer, holiness, and the intellectual life.
0:54.3	How is the human being sanctified?
0:56.9	How are you made holy?
0:59.7	Well, by God, not by yourself.
1:05.2	You don't do it from your own power.
1:08.3	To be made holy is to be elevated by God somehow to be sanctified by God.
1:14.6	That's a very first principle in Catholic theology, in Christian theology more generally.
1:19.9	We are saved by grace, not by ourselves. We become holy by God's action. First of all, now that's not to say that it's not also by our action,
1:32.6	because God acts in us to elevate us and configure us to himself, to give us a share in his life,
1:41.2	in such a way that it will really be also our life and pertain to us.
1:47.0	Okay, so that's what we're talking about in a certain way. What's the place of prayer and of the
1:52.0	intellectual life in that whole project? So you're made holy by God. You're saved by God, not from yourself, not from your own power.
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