The TI and Your Vocation I Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P.

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🗓️ 12 September 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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This lecture was given on June 27th, 2025, at Dominican House of Studies.

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About the Speaker:

Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. is an adjunct professor of dogmatic theology at the Dominican House of Studies and an Assistant Director of the Thomistic Institute. He is the author of a few books including Prudence: Choose Confidently, Live Boldly. His writing also appears in Ascension’s Catholic Classics, Magnificat, and Aleteia. He is a regular contributor to the podcasts Pints with Aquinas, Catholic Classics, The Thomistic Institute, and Godsplaining.

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0:00.0	Secular campuses are being transformed, but the students need your help.
0:03.6	Last year, students at 41 secular universities asked to start TI chapters.
0:08.6	Only 10 can be funded. The rest are still waiting.
0:11.5	Please, give a student a yes they've been praying for.
0:14.6	They're ready, but they can't share the truth without you.
0:17.5	Your gift before September 15th can launch a new TI chapter and change lives. Go to
0:22.8	to temistic institute.org slash donate or use the link in this episode to give today.
0:31.1	Welcome to the Timistic Institute podcast. Our mission is to promote the Catholic intellectual
0:36.3	tradition in the university, the church, and the wider public square.
0:40.3	The lectures on this podcast are organized by university students at Thomistic Institute chapters around the world.
0:46.7	To learn more and to attend these events, visit us at to mystic institute.org.
0:52.5	The topic for today, or the topic for this afternoon, or this part of the
0:55.9	afternoon. There are various topics at various times, so you have to be specific. And it's like,
1:01.2	where does the T.I. fit in my college experience, my being your. So where does the T.I. fit in
1:07.5	your college experience? I suppose we could ask the broader question, like, where does anything fit in your college
1:12.7	experience?
1:13.7	I don't know if you have this experience, but sometimes it feels like life is kind of so
1:21.3	many tasks arranged in chaotic fashion to which you attend on the basis of their urgency.
1:27.3	So it's like, this is on fire, time to put it out. That's on fire. Time to put it out. But it can be difficult to kind of gain insight into the whole of your life, like how it hangs together, how it's articulated, whether or not it's actually coherent or cogent, or whether you're just doing various things, some of which are edifying and some of which are destructive,
1:45.0	and just hoping to do more in the former category than in the latter category.
1:48.0	So, my proposal is that your life can be, may in fact be, but can be more so, cogent and coherent.
1:56.0	And I just kind of want to situate where the T.I may fit into that.
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