“Devoutly I Adore Thee” - The Poetry and Prayer of St. Thomas Aquinas | Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P.

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Regent University TI chairman gave the Opening!

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I believe you Lord when you say this is Your Body

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Glory to GOD... Help me ...for I am only human...want Justice

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Amen

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So is this like a school or what? Do they pretty much follow St Thomas teachings?

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The Thomistic Institute is an institute of the Pontifical Faculty of the Dominican House of Studies, where friars are educated and trained. So yes, it’s an academic institution based in the teachings of St. Thomas Aquinas.

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No, they teach St. Thomas's philosophy.

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@@nascot123 interesting. I'm not religious but I always enjoy when this guy answers questions. How does the mainstream church feel about this? It just seems like giving your life to a saint would be frowned upon.

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@@Jaggerbush Sorry for the late reply. The Dominican Order is in good standing with the Catholic Church, having been officially erected as a medicant order(a begging order) of pontifical right(i.e. the Pope directly approves and upholds the order) in 1216 by St. Dominic. In fact, the Dominican Order has autonomy and privileges given to it by the Church not found in other orders. This shows that in a special way the Church trusts in the efficacy of the charism of St. Dominic and the grace that it gives to his order. And it should be noted that almost all major religious orders have their charism based upon a saintly founder(Franciscans, Benedictines, Norbertines, etc.). Speaking to the teaching of St. Thomas Aquinas specifically; St. Thomas Aquinas, along with being a saint, is also a Doctor of the Church, in recognition of his contributions to Catholic theology and philosophy. The Catholic Church has on numerous occasions placed Aquinas and his teaching as especially fitting and "ideal". In recent decades Thomism is perhaps not as widespread or influential as it once was, especially among the generation of clergy and theologians that have been broadly speaking "in power" for the past 60 years or so, but he's still the incontestable big man of Western Christian thought, and western thought in general from the Middle Ages onward. Except for a brief period after his death when the academic establishment tried to frame him for heresy(and perhaps also around the mid-20th century) the Dominican Order has taught and preached Thomism.