A Meditation on the Holy Spirit and the Stigmata - Tommy Piolata, O.F.M., Cap.

The Pneumatic Form of St. Francis Cruciform: A Meditation on the Holy Spirit and the Stigmata
Presented by: Tommy Piolata, O.F.M. Cap.
In various passages, St Bonaventure describes the stigmata of St. Francis in terms that implicitly or explicitly refer to the work of the Holy Spirit. For example, the Holy Spirit is the “finger of God” that impresses the wounds of the Crucified on the Saint. Accordingly, Bonaventure not only deepens the theology of this mystical event in a Christological fashion - as is relatively well known - but also in a pneumatological mode. In other words, the cruciform love manifested in and corporeally impressed upon St. Francis evinces the fire of love that is the Holy Spirit. This talk explores this pneumatology of the stigmata, and thereby ultimately underscores the role of the Holy Spirit in the life of faith.
Speaker bio: Tommy Piolata is a Capuchin friar of the province of St. Augustine. He holds a BA from St. Louis University, an MA in Philosophy and an MA in Theology from The Catholic University of America, as well as a licentiate in theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University. Earlier this year, he finished his doctoral work at Durham University and the Pontifical Antonianum University, writing on Bonaventure’s theology of the Holy Spirit. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor of Theology at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC.
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