St. Catherine of Siena on Virtue | Sr. Catherine Joseph Droste, O.P.

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🗓️ 17 September 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Sister Catherine Joseph Droste discusses St. Catherine of Siena's teachings on virtue, focusing on charity, humility, patience, and prudence within the context of Catherine's life and writings.

This lecture was given on July 11th, 2024, at Stonyhurst College.

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About the Speaker:

Sister Catherine Joseph Droste, O.P. is a Professor Straordinaria of theology at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum), where she has also served as Vice Dean, Dean of the Faculty of Theology, and Director of Collaboration. Her areas of research include virtues and the moral life, the ecclesiology of religious life, and the theology of St. Catherine of Siena. She is a native of Iowa and a member of the Congregation of Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia, Nashville, Tennessee. Her studies include an MA (history – Middle Tennessee State University), M.Ed (Administration – Marymount University), STB, STL, STD (Angelicum).

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tomistic Institute podcast.
0:06.8	Our mission is to promote the Catholic intellectual tradition in the university, the church, and the wider public square.
0:13.1	The lectures on this podcast are organized by university students at Temistic Institute chapters around the world.
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0:22.3	at to mystic institute.org. All right, so we're shifting now to St. Catherine of Siena, another
0:30.1	Dominican, but a woman. She lived in the century after Thomas Aquinas. Now, my first talk is
0:36.9	going to focus on Catherine and infused virtue.
0:40.2	So I get to build on what Father and Professor Corbett did with some of those general principles
0:46.3	about God and God's goodness and then Timistic ethics.
0:51.4	And I'm going to go into more particular of something of the particular of this good
0:58.1	that we participate in as to virtue, but specifically as to Catherine of Sienna, which
1:05.4	raises, of course, a question.
1:07.7	So I will have to open with a little bit of a rationale as to why speaking to virtue in Catherine of Sienna.
1:14.6	I will also note something of Catherine's understanding of virtue, which is very Christological.
1:21.6	So I'm going to touch upon Christ as the exemplar, which is, again, Father is already noted in terms of God being good.
1:29.6	Catherine has that in her theology of virtue.
1:32.7	Then I'm going to introduce an image that Catherine uses.
1:36.0	Catherine uses a lot of images, and one is her image of this tree of charity.
1:40.9	I'll also speak briefly of another one of her images, Il-Ponte, the bridge, to introduce back with their Christology.
1:48.0	And I'm going to use this tree of charity and Catherine to speak about four virtues.
1:52.0	There's a lot of virtues.
1:53.0	I'm going to just summarize four because they have specific place in this tree of charity and they're necessary for all virtue.
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