Study And The Spiritual Life Crucifixion Of The Desk I Sister Anna Wray, O.P

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🗓️ 8 December 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Sister Anna Wray is a native of Connecticut and a member of the Dominican Sisters of Saint Cecilia. Sister received her PhD in philosophy from The Catholic University of America, having written her dissertation on Aristotle’s account of the activity of contemplation. Sister is on faculty in CUA's School of Philosophy.

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0:59.0	The title and the idea of this talk, the crucifixion of the dusk, came to me several years ago when I was going through a particularly dark stage of writing,
1:12.5	or rather of not writing, my dissertation.
1:15.9	Somewhat ironically, I fell into the habit of repeating the phrase to myself
1:20.1	whenever I was tempted to write about the crucifixion of the desk,
1:24.9	rather than about the topic of my dissertation.
1:28.3	The phrase also recurred to me in even less dramatic moments because the room in which I was supposed to be writing my dissertation had originally been built as a private chapel, and the wooden desk was in the place where the altar would have been.
1:43.3	You'll be happy to know that I succeeded in resisting the temptation to research the phrase
1:48.2	Crucifixion of the Desk until just recently, a few years after I'd finished my dissertation
1:53.6	and a few months before I was invited to give this talk.
1:58.4	I started my research in my customary old school way by asking a handful of smart people who live nearby what they knew about the phrase.
2:06.6	After all of my usual sages gave me blank stares, I turned in desperation to chat GPT, which unhelpfully told me that the phrase was a metaphor and then gave me a list of
2:20.1	study hacks. This talk will not be about study hacks. It will be a description and a rather long,
2:28.8	up-close one, of the activity of studying. But before you decide to take a nap, please know that my primary intention is to give you a
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