Prudence in Action | Fr. Dominic Verner, O.P.

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🗓️ 3 December 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This lecture was given on November 1, 2020 as part of "Choosing Well: Practical Wisdom in an Impractical Age" Intellectual Retreat at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C.

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Speaker Bio:

Fr. Dominic Verner, the eldest of three children, grew up in Carmel, Indiana and received his formation in the faith at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Parish. Fr. Dominic attended Purdue University, where he graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering. While at Purdue he began to discern a call to the priesthood, a call which he pursued upon graduating by entering Mount Saint Mary’s Seminary. He graduated from Mount Saint Mary’s with a masters in philosophical studies and entered the Order of Preachers shortly thereafter. He was ordained to the priesthood in 2016 and is currently pursuing a PhD in Moral Theology at the University of Notre Dame.

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0:11.1	Prudence in action is the talk, talk today.
0:14.6	And I want to begin with the joke, because as is R.1, I suppose.
0:20.1	You know, you probably heard lots of Dominican, Franciscan
0:22.4	Jesuit jokes. And those are kind of a dime a dozen. You might not be as familiar with the
0:28.6	self-deprecating Dominican jokes, you know, because, well, we usually think we're pretty awesome.
0:35.7	And so we're a little load to tell those in public.
0:38.2	But we do tell amongst ourselves, you know.
0:40.1	So I'm going to let you in on one.
0:43.3	This is when I heard in Novisit.
0:44.6	So there once was a skydiver who was skydiving, as they are once to do.
0:49.5	And he pulled his shoot a little early.
0:53.3	And as a result, he was blown off course off his target and got stuck in a tree.
0:58.9	And he was hanging 15 feet off the ground, you know, can't reach a branch, really in trouble.
1:04.5	But then his as good fortune would have it, a Dominican friar walks by.
1:10.4	And so, you know, he kind of is calling out.
1:13.4	And the friar sees the man, and he looks up and he says, I see you are stuck in a tree.
1:19.7	And then the man hanging from his parachute responds, I see that you're a Dominican friar.
1:26.2	The friar response. Is it the habit?
1:29.0	No.
1:30.1	You told me something true, but totally useless.
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