The Desire for Happiness: From a Human Tragedy to a Divine Comedy | Sr. Catherine Joseph Droste, O.P.

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🗓️ 16 August 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Sr. Catherine Joseph Droste explores the human desire for happiness, the impact of original sin, and God's redemptive plan through a theological and philosophical lens.

This lecture was given on July 3rd, 2024, at Glencomeragh House.

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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.
0:19.1	To learn more and to attend these events, visit us at to mystic institute.org.
0:24.8	The first talk of this retreat rather sets the stage for the others, which is appropriate.
0:30.7	The desire for happiness.
0:33.4	Human tragedy to divine comedy.
0:36.6	That definitely indicates two clear moments in salvation history.
0:40.3	The first, human tragedy, original sin.
0:44.3	Man abuses his freedom.
0:46.8	The second, divine comedy.
0:50.5	How an infinite, all-knowing, all-good God looked with mercy on his miserable creatures
0:58.9	and sent his son to accomplish their redemption.
1:04.6	But there's a third moment mentioned there, which precedes these two.
1:10.3	Implicitly referenced in the first words, desire for happiness.
1:17.1	This phrase, I would note, recalls the initial creation of Adam and Eve, the original state
1:25.4	where we discover the essence of human nature.
1:30.1	What is it to be human?
1:33.1	A nature which endures in spite of original sin and through redemption.
1:42.7	So we could say that these are all three steps,
1:45.2	really three steps of a divine comedy.
1:48.0	Why?
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