What Can an Adulteress Teach Us About Happiness? Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and the Project of Literature | Sr. Jane Dominic Laurel, O.P.

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🗓️ 31 October 2024

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This lecture was given on October 19th, 2023, at Georgetown University.

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About the Speaker:

Sr. Jane Dominic Laurel is a member of the St. Cecilia Congregation of Dominican Sisters of Nashville, Tennessee. She has been active in her religious community’s teaching apostolate for over fifteen years and assists with the theological formation of the newest members of her religious congregation, serving as Associate Professor of Theology at Aquinas College. In addition to contributing articles to a number of journals and magazines, including the Vatican newspaper (L’Osservatore Romano), The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, The Linacre Quarterly, and the Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings, her favorite projects have been serving as editor-in-chief of her Congregation’s book, Praying as a Family, directing a television series of the same title with EWTN, co-directing the documentary Undivided Heart, and serving as the creator and founding Director of the University of Dallas Studies in Catholic Faith & Culture Program.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tomistic Institute podcast.
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0:24.6	So we were looking very much forward to coming here to Georgetown and especially to see the
0:30.6	buildings, the tour of the campus. And it reminded me of what Winston Churchill observed.
0:36.6	He said, we build our buildings and our buildings
0:41.9	build us. So you think of some of the most beautiful buildings on this campus. What do they do?
0:48.3	They build you. In what way great expense was taken for these buildings, right? And they build you. How do they
0:53.9	build you? They build you, how do they build you?
0:54.8	They build you interiorly. They give you a sense of who you are, a sense of your own dignity,
1:00.9	a sense of the greatness to which you were called, right? There's a majesty, a stateliness about these
1:05.5	buildings. But isn't this also true, what Winston Churchill said, we build our buildings and our buildings
1:15.5	build us?
1:17.0	Isn't this also true of the interior architecture that we create through our memory and our
1:24.9	imaginations?
1:26.5	And through what we choose to read, what we choose to watch, who
1:30.4	we choose to talk to about what.
1:34.4	So I think we can ask ourselves, what are the interior libraries, living rooms, bars, shopping
1:42.9	plazas, prisons, concentration camps, and cathedrals that we've built in our own imaginations.
1:50.0	Because they tell us something of who we are.
1:54.0	So we're here tonight to talk about the project of literature.
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