0:00.0	Hello, my name is Father Gregory Pine and I am a Dominican friar of the province of St Joseph.
0:05.5	I teach at the Dominican House of Studies and I work as an assistant director for the
0:10.6	Tomistic Institute and this is Pines with Aquinas. And in this episode I would like to talk about prayer. You're like, oh my gosh, another video about prayer. But here's the thing. I want to talk about prayer as weird or why prayer seems so weird because not just in the sense of weird like
0:25.6	boring or like fatiguing or like distracting I think a lot of us have that
0:30.4	experience we're not talking about that maybe Maybe we could talk about that. Regardless, keep going. And I'm talking about the weirdness of
0:35.8	like what's actually going on when you pray? Like are you asking God for a thing and then he changes his mind and gives it to you like he wasn't
0:45.6	inclined to give it to you before but now he's inclined to give it to you
0:48.0	because you prayed. Is that what's going on?
0:50.7	spoiler alert no. Or when you pray to Saints, what's exactly going on there? Like, I thought
0:56.4	about asking God, but I suspect he might say no, so I'm going to ask this saint because
1:01.4	she's a total softy. Or I've got like a cool family connection and so my
1:06.7	request will not be denied. Like what's going on with that? What's going on with that?
1:10.4	So let's think a little bit about prayer in its weirdness so that we can
1:14.2	be better recollected and then better abandoned in our practice of prayer and hopefully
1:18.8	it will yield great fruit. Here we go. Oh yeah, here we go. So what is prayer? Prayer, as St. John Damasine says,
1:30.6	is the raising of one's mind and heart to God or as St. Teresa
1:35.0	Vavala says it is the simple gaze of the soul upon the God by by whom she
1:40.0	knows herself to be loved. So what do we take away from that?
1:44.0	Prayer is an intellectual act or a mental act. Basically it's something that transpires
1:50.0	in your mind and reaches up to God. It's actually an act of a virtue and the virtue is called
1:56.1	religion. And you're like, what? A virtue called religion? I thought religion was like a thing or like
2:01.1	a list of beliefs. Right, so when we talk about religion here we're talking about a
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