Sacred Study: Loving God with Your Mind | Fr. Irenaeus Dunlevy, OP
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🗓️ 20 March 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Fr. Irenaeus Dunlevy explores the meaning of loving God with all our minds, drawing from St. Thomas Aquinas's interpretation of the greatest commandment.
This lecture was given on April 9th, 2024, at the University of Pennsylvania.
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About the Speaker:
Fr. Irenaeus Dunlevy, OP is a Coordinator for Campus Outreach at the Thomistic Institute in Washington, DC. He has served as a parochial vicar at St. Pius V Church in Providence, RI, as well as an adjunct professor and assistant chaplain at Providence College. He originates from Columbus, OH, studied architecture in Virginia and Switzerland, and practiced in the DC area before entering the Order of Preachers in 2013. He was ordained a priest in 2020 at the Dominican House of Studies during the quarantine. In his work with the Thomistic Institute, he has given talks on the virtue of penance and the use of metaphor in Scripture. He often travels the country visiting Thomistic Institute Campus Chapters, leading seminars that help students grasp Thomistic concepts. Additionally, he coordinates the TI's intellectual retreat programming, which affords students time to pray and integrate into their lives Thomistic theology and philosophy.
Keywords: Analogical Predication, Articles of Faith, Deposit of Faith, Ignorance, Love of God, Saint Paul, Sacred Study, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Wounds of Original Sin
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| 0:25.5 | I'd like to begin this talk by making a claim about Christ, |
| 0:30.9 | which is in many ways indebted to a comment from Father John Piero, |
| 0:35.3 | Terrell, St. Thomas Aquinas, following to a spiritual master. |
| 0:39.4 | He came to our aid to teach us and heal us of our greatest poverty, our ignorance of God. |
| 0:50.7 | So I'll say that again. |
| 0:52.2 | He came to our aid to teach us and heal us of our greatest poverty, our ignorance of God. |
| 1:01.4 | Whereas the Blessed Virgin Mary did not suffer the wounds of original sin, we labor under the weight of sin from our first parents. |
| 1:14.0 | The four wounds, they are malice, |
| 1:21.0 | which wounds are will, concupiscence, which affects our sensitive appetite, weakness, |
| 1:26.1 | which affects our erascible appetite, and the greatest affliction according to Father Terrell ignorance, which strips our intellects of all |
| 1:29.5 | knowledge of God. The sin of our first parents has brought us, has brought into the life of all |
| 1:36.6 | the deprivation of knowing what we are meant to know and loving what we are meant to love. |
| 1:44.3 | For those of you who may not be familiar with the temistic terminology I just dropped on you, |
| 1:49.3 | I'll say a quick word. |
| 1:51.3 | The intellect and will belong to the mind, which is the highest and most noble part of human nature. |
| 1:55.5 | These are hopefully familiar enough. |
| 1:57.9 | But the concupiscible and irascible appetites are a bit foreign unless you're familiar |
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