What Wisdom Teaches: St. Catherine of Siena and Infused Virtue in the Christian Life | Sr. Catherine Joseph Droste, O.P.

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🗓️ 13 August 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Sister Catherine Joseph Droste explores St. Catherine of Siena's teachings on virtue, emphasizing her relevance to modern times and her complementary approach to St. Thomas Aquinas. She explains Catherine's metaphor of the "tree of charity" and how virtues are interconnected, with charity as the mother of all virtues. The lecture delves into the importance of humility, self-knowledge, and the practical application of virtues in relation to one's neighbor.

This lecture was given on July 4th, 2024, at Glencomeragh House.

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About the Speaker:

Sister Catherine Joseph Droste, O.P. is a Professor Straordinaria of theology at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum), where she has also served as Vice Dean, Dean of the Faculty of Theology, and Director of Collaboration. Her areas of research include virtues and the moral life, the ecclesiology of religious life, and the theology of St. Catherine of Siena. She is a native of Iowa and a member of the Congregation of Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia, Nashville, Tennessee. Her studies include an MA (history – Middle Tennessee State University), M.Ed (Administration – Marymount University), STB, STL, STD (Angelicum).

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tomistic Institute podcast.
0:06.8	Our mission is to promote the Catholic intellectual tradition in the university, the church, and the wider public square.
0:13.1	The lectures on this podcast are organized by university students at Temistic Institute chapters around the world.
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0:21.7	visit us at Thomisticinstitute.org.
0:25.0	All right, good afternoon.
0:27.5	Let's begin with St. Cathen of Siena.
0:32.5	Now, some of you might wonder, well, why not Thomas Aquinas?
0:37.4	Well, usually I do teach virtue on Thomas Aquinas.
0:40.2	Usually I'm teaching Thomas's cardinal virtues and all the other related virtues. So why Catherine?
0:48.3	Well, she's also a Dominican. She's also a doctor of the church, one of the first women, female doctors
0:56.2	of the church with Teresa Vabala, which requires excellent teaching as well as, or eminent teaching
1:04.8	and a universal teaching that is applicable throughout history and to all cultures.
1:11.6	Catherine, she was an uneducated woman.
1:14.1	I'll tell you a little about our life in the moment, but as I say right now, just why
1:17.7	Catherine and not Thomas?
1:20.7	She didn't read.
1:23.1	She was uneducated until Thomas and John and St. John taught her how to read one time. St. Thomas Aquinas, that is, they appeared, taught her how to read, right? But otherwise she didn't really read. So she didn't read the Summa. But she lived right near the fathers. So they would have, in listening to them, she would have learned a great deal about Aquinas. But she also learned from some Augustinian monks, too.
1:46.4	So she has a lot of Augustine in there.
1:47.9	But she's very timistic.
1:50.3	But I would say, Catherine, she's not a systematic writer like Aquinas.
1:57.7	She's very timistic, though, in terms of the basic content and the principles,
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