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Now, when Father spoke, he basically just opened his mouth and the summa came out,

which was really amazing.

As I was going through my talk, I thought I should probably mention,

make sure you're familiar with a few names, which are going to come up in my talk. It has a lot

of Aquinas, but it's not just Aquinas, right? So most of you familiar with Albert the Great,

his feast day was just this Wednesday. A few of you mentioned that, so that was good to hear. And he was a teacher

of St. Thomas Aquinas. So St. Albert the Great was born around 1204, died around 1280, so I'd just like to think

that his life spans a whole 1,200s. He was a teacher in the order when Thomas Aquinas entered. Thomas

Aquinas studied with him. Albert taught at Paris.

He taught at the Dominican House of Studies in Cologne, Germany. He was provincial for a while.

Apparently he was a little strict as provincial. There's a story that they had a rule against riding

horses, and some of the brothers rode horses to the general chapter elected Albert and then

he gave them penances for riding horses and maybe he was also not grateful for being elected because

he preferred to be a teacher so there might be a couple things going on there and he was a bishop

for a couple years as well which is important because one of his sacramental

works, one that I translated on the body of the Lord, is not very scholastic in style, or it's very

poetic as well as scholastic. So I tend to think, you can talk about the more scholastic works,

are kind of like espresso. They've got the good stuff, but they're very concentrated, and especially at the beginning,

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