Virtue in Human Action | Father John Baptist Ku, O.P.

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🗓️ 26 September 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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This lecture was given on June 6th, 2023, at the NYC Thomistic Institute at the Dominican House of Studies. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website: thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events Speaker Bio: Fr. John Baptist Ku, O.P., was born in Manhattan (1965) and grew up in Fairfax, Virginia. After graduating from the University of Virginia, he worked at AT&T for five years before entering the Dominican Order in 1992. After serving for three years in St. Pius Parish in Providence, R.I., he completed his doctoral studies at the University of Fribourg in 2009. He now teaches at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., where he has also served as book review editor of The Thomist (the faculty’s journal), chaplain to commuter students, and chaplain to the Immaculate Conception Chapter of Third Order Dominicans, and assistant student master. He served as student master and subprior at St. Dominic Priory from 2015-2018, and is currently the subprior.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tomistic Institute podcast.
0:06.2	Our mission is to promote the Catholic intellectual tradition in the university, the church, and the wider public square.
0:13.0	The lectures on this podcast are organized by university students at Temistic Institute chapters around the world.
0:19.4	To learn more and to attend these events, visit us at
0:22.4	to mystic institute.org.
0:24.4	In the name of the Father and of the Son and the Holy Spirit, Heavenly Father,
0:30.6	send your Holy Spirit into our hearts to make us wise, to make us more true in our thoughts and in our deeds so that we might be
0:43.0	conformed to you and thereby come to eternal glory through Christ our Lord.
0:48.9	Amen.
0:49.3	Father, Son, Holy Spirit.
0:50.8	Amen.
0:51.6	So I want to talk about virtue and human action, and I prepared an outline for you,
0:56.2	but I sent it to Bobby who's not in town, so I'll have to be extra lucid and you can be
1:01.0	extra attentive.
1:02.5	So St. Paul says in his letter to the Romans, I do not the good I want, but the evil I do not
1:10.2	want.
1:11.5	How crazy is that?
1:12.5	But I think you know what he's talking about.
1:14.5	If you're a human being,
1:15.3	sometimes you just know what's right.
1:18.2	You can't make yourself do it.
1:21.2	So, yeah, how is that?
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