Thomas Proposes a Toast: The Festive Joy of Honoring God | Fr. Dominic Verner, O.P.

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🗓️ 3 October 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Fr. Dominic Verner discusses the significance of glorifying God through prayer, particularly the "Glory Be" and Eucharistic adoration. He emphasizes that God desires glory not for His own sake, but for our benefit and joy in knowing Him. The talk concludes by highlighting the importance of recognizing Christ's presence in others and acting in His name, thereby participating in God's mission and glorifying Him through our actions.

This lecture was given on March 9th, 2024, at Our Lady of Corpus Christi Retreat Center.

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About the Speaker:

After earning a B.S. in electrical engineering from Purdue University and an M.A. in philosophical studies from Mount St. Mary's University, Fr. Dominic Verner, O.P. entered the Order of Preachers and was ordained to the priesthood in 2016. He has an S.T.L. from the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception and a Ph.D. in moral theology/Christian ethics from the University of Notre Dame, where he wrote his dissertation "Saving Honor: A Thomistic Ethics of Honor." He joined the Theology Faculty at Providence College as an Assistant Professor in the Fall of 2022. His research and teaching interests especially concern Thomistic moral theory and the role that honor, friendship, and glory play in practical reason and the quest for beatitude. Fr. Verner is Assistant Professor of Theology at Providence College in Providence, RI.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tomistic Institute podcast.
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0:25.2	I believe this talk, we titled it, St. Thomas Raises a Toast.
0:30.7	Something about giving glory to God.
0:32.9	Okay.
0:33.6	So Thomas Raises a Toast.
0:36.0	Well, we have this, thank you to Professor Foley for giving us this great exhortation of the importance of toasting and the ritual of drinking well.
0:47.3	And so I thought I would frame this final talk of the conference with this kind of image of Thomas St. Thomas
0:58.2	raising a toast to God.
1:01.3	Now, we probably don't have, if you've been to many weddings, you probably don't, as we
1:06.1	priests tend to, you probably don't have a whole lot of happy memories of toasts.
1:11.9	There's a lot of, I mean, the art of toasting has fallen on hard times. And, you know, usually they're a bit rambling. Sometimes
1:20.8	they don't have that great form of the Roman Collet, unfortunately, too often. And so they can
1:26.7	kind of go off the rails. So I don't want to, you know,
1:29.9	discourage you using this title, Thomas raises a toast. I assure you, St. Thomas knows how to toast,
1:35.0	especially God. So where do we see St. Thomas raising his toast to the Lord?
1:42.9	Well, you may not have noticed this,
1:45.1	but at the end of each of St. Thomas's works,
1:48.4	now I haven't gone through all of them,
1:50.6	but certainly the vast majority of his works,
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