Hello, my name is Father Gregory Pine and I'm a Dominican friar of the

province of St Joseph and I teach the Dominican House of Studies and I work as an

assistant director for the Tomistic Institute and this is Pines with Aquinas.

I suspect that all of us have had the experience of walking through a town or a city

and being approached and asked for money or for something else, and then you have to make a decision.

Okay so maybe you do the same thing every time like you give five dollars or you give a

granola bar or whatever or maybe it's circumstance dependent like you know if the person has an

iPhone 15 then I will not give anything but if the person doesn't have an

iPhone 15 then I will give something. I have known people who

act in this way. Or it might be that you're just totally bewildered by the

experience and you're like, ah, and then you act out of haste or embarrassment or whatever else.

So this video is for you because it's worthwhile to think about the virtues which

inform our practice and then the different ways in which we are responsible or encouraged to go beyond our ordinary responsibility.

And then ultimately, you know, like we want to grow in sanctity, and this is an integral feature of that transformation.

So let's think about it together. Here we go.

All right.

So let's start first by talking about mercy because mercy is the virtue

which is at work here with the backing of charity but we'll talk first about mercy.

So mercy is one of these cool things where it's a divine attribute which is to say God is merciful and a human virtue which is to say we can be merciful should we so choose.

So it has different expressions in God and in man.

We'll talk about the expression it takes in man.

So there are two features to mercy.

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