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So the title for this session given was Timistic Wisdom for the Way of Pilgrims.

You could...

And I decided to focus on the pilgrim thing in case you're getting sick of thinking about wisdom.

I'm just kidding. You're not sick of it. But yeah, so I'm mainly

going to reflect on pilgrimage, what it means that were pilgrims, homo viator, we're on the way,

and what are a couple of the most important protective virtues of that pilgrim status.

There are many virtues, of course, and these tend to fall under the virtue of hope.

But I mainly got to talk about a little bit about recollection, what Gwardini calls acceptance,

but mostly I want to talk about patience.

Usually when St. Thomas handles a virtue in exactly one question, you could think, well,

it's because it's kind of boring or it's not that important.

And those are often the most interesting questions.

But I'm mainly going to speak about Dante.

Some philosophical scholars would like to think of Dante as like a poetic version of St. Thomas,

and that's overly reductive, but he is profoundly influenced by his study of St. Thomas as well as others.

Okay, so pilgrimage is an idea with natural roots.

It's of course also very biblical.

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