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

In this episode I'd like to talk a little bit about Fear.

So Fear comes up in a variety of places in our spiritual lives. Maybe we are

afraid of losing things that we love. Maybe we are afraid of going to hell. Maybe we

are afraid of offending God. So as you can already tell, there's some bad

fears which just aren't in keeping with our Christian dignity, but then there are some good fears,

which as it turns out are.

So I want to talk a little bit about fear.

It's placed in our spiritual life and how we can grow in holy fear.

Here we are.

Okay. Okay, so, surprise of the century, I'm going to rely upon the thought of one figure from the Christian

tradition who is very wise and who helps us better to understand fear.

That figure is same time as a kindness.

Whoo! Just making myself laugh over here. Okay, so when St. Thomas describes the

virtues, he associates them with the gifts of the Holy Spirit and he'll say things like all right when you use

the virtues you're working in a human way and when you use the gifts of the Holy

Spirit you're working in a divine way it's not like the virtues are imperfect and the gifts are perfect.

It's just that the virtues work in a perfect human mode and the gifts of the

Holy Spirit work in a perfect divine mode. So one of the images that an author in the 17th century uses to

describe the difference he says basically you're on a little boating trip.

It's just it's a humble boat okay it's not like a yacht, so don't be scandalized.

So you're on a boating trip and when you work by the virtues it's like you're pulling at the yours.

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