The Presence Of God: The Wisdom of St. Thomas Aquinas | Fr. James Brent, OP

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🗓️ 21 April 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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0:00.0	Let's begin with a prayer. In the name of the Father and the song of the Holy Spirit, amen.
0:05.9	Come, Holy Spirit, fill our hearts, and kindle in us the fire of your divine love.
0:12.2	Send forth thy spirit, and they shall be created. And you shall renew the face of the earth.
0:18.0	Let us pray. O God, who by the light of the Holy Spirit,
0:21.5	did instruct the heart of thy faithful people, grant us by the same light that we always may
0:26.4	be wise and ever rejoice in his consolation. Through the same Christ, our Lord.
0:32.5	Amen. Mary Queen of Peace.
0:34.6	Great God. St. Joseph.
0:36.5	Great God.
0:37.4	St. Thomas. St. Thomas. Great God. St. Joseph. St. Thomas Aquinas.
0:38.7	Great for us.
0:39.6	St. Elizabeth of the Trinity.
0:41.3	In the name of the Father and of the Son of the Holy Spirit, Amen.
0:47.2	Well, it's a great joy for me to be here with all of you this afternoon.
0:52.5	I want to thank Father Sebastian for that introduction and
0:55.0	also thank the Thomistic Institute for the invitation and opportunity to come and speak with
1:01.0	all of you about a topic that is close to my own heart. It's the presence of God.
1:10.0	This topic became important to me over a number of years
1:14.3	when I had spent a fair amount of time studying arguments for the existence of God
1:19.9	and other themes in natural theology.
1:24.3	And although I always held and still do hold that arguments for the existence of God are very important, very powerful, and often play a very critical role in people's conversion and the development of an adult faith life,
1:48.2	I also came to realize the limits of arguments for the existence of God, in one sense.
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