The Dignity of the Poor, Made in God's Image | Fr. John Mark Solitario, O.P.

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🗓️ 3 September 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Fr. John Mark Solitario discusses the dignity of the poor as being made in God's image, emphasizing the Catholic perspective on poverty, human dignity, and the theological insights of St. Thomas Aquinas regarding the image of God in humanity.

This lecture was given on April 12th, 2024, at The Dominican House of Studies.

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About the Speaker:

Fr. John Mark Solitario is a coordinator for campus outreach at the Thomistic Institute. He met the nuns and friars of the Order of Preachers at the Dominican Monastery of the Mother of God in his hometown of West Springfield, MA. Their lives of Christian totality, marked by sacrifice, prayer, and preaching but above all, a supernatural goodness and joy, made a huge impact on him. After studying the liberal arts and philosophy at Christendom College and teaching high school theology as a member of Providence College’s PACT program, Father entered the Dominican novitiate in Cincinnati, OH, and went on for theological studies at the Dominican House of Studies. Following the solemn profession of religious vows, he was ordained a priest of Jesus Christ in 2019. Focusing on the Universal Call to Holiness in the theology of the Spanish Dominican Juan Arintero, Fr John Mark earned his licentiate in sacred theology in 2020. He is delighted to be working with students and professors as they seek to know better the truth about God and his creation through the patronage of St. Thomas Aquinas.

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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.
0:25.3	The Second Vatican Council in its dogmatic constitution on the church, Lumengencium,
0:31.6	says the following.
0:32.7	It's a beautiful quote that I'd like to start our time together with.
0:37.0	Just as Christ carried out the work of redemption in poverty and oppression, so the church is
0:43.0	called to follow the same path if she is to communicate the fruits of salvation to men.
0:48.7	Christ Jesus, quote, though he was by nature God, emptied himself, taking the nature of a slave, Philippians too. And, quote, though he was by nature God, emptied himself, taking the nature of a slave, Philippians
0:56.7	two. And, quote, being rich became poor, second Corinthians eight, for our sake. Likewise, the church,
1:06.2	although she needs human resources to carry out her mission, is not set up to seek earthly glory, but to
1:12.5	proclaim and this by her own example, humility and self-denial. Christ was sent by the Father,
1:19.0	quote, to bring good news to the poor, to heal the contrary of heart. That's Luke
1:24.2	Chapter 4. And, quote, to seek and to save what was lost.
1:29.0	Luke chapter 19.
1:31.5	Similarly, the church encompasses with her love all those who are afflicted by human misery,
1:36.7	and she recognizes in those who are poor and who suffer the image of her poor and suffering founder.
1:43.6	So that's the quote from Lumengencium, paragraph 8.
1:48.3	Now, Jesus himself voluntarily poor, chooses to impress his image in the poor of every age.
1:56.6	I'd like to think about that during our retreat.
1:59.8	This image is given under different modes that I'm going to discuss tonight in our first talk.
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