St. Catherine on Secularism and the Interior Life | Sr. Mary Madeleine Todd, O.P.

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🗓️ 25 November 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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The lecture was given on October 12, 2022 at Harvard University. For more information on upcoming events, visit thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Sr. Mary Madeline Todd is a Dominican Sister of Saint Cecilia Congregation in Nashville. She earned her doctorate in Sacred Theology from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome. She teaches, writes, and speaks on spiritual and moral theology and philosophy, especially on the dignity of the human person in Christ.

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0:00.0	This talk is brought to you by the Tamistic Institute.
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0:11.8	Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.
0:15.4	Blessed are thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
0:19.8	Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners,
0:23.0	now and at the hour of our death. Amen. Mary Queen of Peace.
0:27.8	The name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, amen. So I want to start with a little bit
0:35.5	of a personal story. The whole talk is not going to be a personal story, but it has a point that that goes very much with the theme I'd like to unpack with you of St. Catherine, Oceana, on secularism and the interior life. And it's just for you to mention, what do prudent people do when a storm is coming at the beach? I mean, most people who have a lot of intelligence and life
0:56.4	experience, when a storm is coming, they clear the beach. In fact, the lifeguards go off duty.
1:00.8	Everyone goes off duty. And I have to admit that before I entered the command, I wasn't always the
1:06.3	most prudent. And I lived at the beach one summer, and a big storm was coming, which meant the surf was bigger than usual.
1:12.9	And I was extremely excited about that. And I decided to take on the challenge of beach swimming.
1:19.4	I loved to beach swim. I was a very strong beach swimmer at the time. So it wasn't entirely imprudent,
1:24.7	but the storm was coming. I really thought it would just be an adventure,
1:29.4	that I could fight these enormous waves, that I would feel this kind of thrill of the power of
1:35.4	the sea. And I thought that would be amazing. But I completely underestimated how powerful the
1:42.7	current would be.
1:48.4	And if you've ever, well, you shouldn't, but if you've tried to swim when a major storm is coming,
1:52.7	it's not just that the waves are really big and they're really strong.
1:58.9	It's that at least on the Atlantic coast where I was swimming, the undertow was incredibly strong.
2:04.7	And the current was mostly pulling me under and out to the ocean.
2:11.0	And there was no one on the beach. Okay. No lifeguards, no people. Now, I dove into this water thinking I could take on this challenge. And I realized really quickly that I was probably
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