The Light of Truth is the Dominican Radio show broadcasted weekly on Radio Maria Ireland.

Light of Truth – 40

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This week Bro. Jesse Maingot OP joins Fr. Luuk Jansen OP again on the program the Light of Truth. The discussion continues last weeks program on the Eucharist. This week comes back to the importance and central role the Eucharist plays in the life of any Catholic, and how closeness to God imrpoves our whole iives, including our friendships with other.

The music this week in the live program is:

  • The Gospel, Ryan Stevenson
  • Wonder – Hillsong UNITED
  • Still – Hilary Scott and the Scott Family

(the podcast does not have music in it)

Please send any comments or any question to lightoftruth@dominicans.ie and we will take them into account in the programs to come.

Light of Truth – 39

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This week Bro. Jesse Maingot OP joins  Fr. Luuk Jansen OP on the program the Light of Truth. The discussion is about the Eucharist, and the importance and central role the Eucharist plays in the life of any Catholic.

The music this week in the live program is:

  • The Cure, Unspoken – Follow Through (Deluxe)
  • Beloved, Jordon Feliz – The River (Deluxe Edition)
  • I Wanna Go Back, David Dunn – Yellow Balloons

(the podcast does not have music in it)

Please send any comments or any question to lightoftruth@dominicans.ie and we will take them into account in the programs to come.

Light of Truth – 38

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This week Fr. Luuk Jansen OP continues with the questions in the Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas OP. Today it is about the Goodness of God, Infinity and Eternity. Espcially the aspect of eternity, and what it means for us to think about eternal life, features towards the end of the program.

The music this week in the live program is:

  • Holly – In Awe
  • Oh My Soul – Casting Crowns
  • Still – Hillary Scott

(the podcast does not have music in it)

Please send any comments or any question to lightoftruth@dominicans.ie and we will take them into account in the programs to come.

Light of Truth – 37

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This week Fr. John Harris OP joins Fr. Luuk Jansen OP. The program takes a break from the Summa Theologica to anwser some question from listeners and discuss some related topics.

The music this week in the live program is:

  • Beloved, Jordan Feliz – The River
  • I Wanna Go Back, David Dunn – Yellow Balloons
  • I Have This Hope, Tenth Avenue North – Followers

(the podcast does not have music in it)

Please send any comments or any question to lightoftruth@dominicans.ie and we will take them into account in the programs to come.

Light of Truth – 36

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This week we move to Question 4 of the Summa Theologica, which looks at the perfection of God followed by Questions 5 and 6 on Goodness.

Fr. Luuk OP will continue with the perfection of God in combination. This will bring all kinds of side topics to the program as the relation of a perceivable corrupted world in relation to a perfect God, but also the role of our faith in our daily lives and how God can help us to make living life easier though his healing Grace.

The music this week in the live program is:

  • In Awe, Hollyn – One-Way Conversations
  • Forgiven, Crowder – American Prodigal (Deluxe Edition)
  • Tears, Matt Hammitt – Tears – Single

(the podcast does not have music in it)

Please send any comments or any question to lightoftruth@dominicans.ie and we will take them into account in the programs to come.

Light of Truth – 35

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This week we start to move from Question 2 in the Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas, which is on the existence of God, to Question 3, which starts to look at what we can know about God.

Fr. Luuk OP will look at St. Thomas’ approach in learning things about God. St. Thomas writes that there is two ways to know things about God, the first is revelation and the second through reason, or philisophy. Both these ways have come to the fore in the last two epsiodes by looking at how God releals himself to us and how we can reason about God’s existence. Now we will look at some things we can know about God mainly through philosophy.

The music this week in the live program is:

  • Testify, Need to Breathe – Hardlover
  • The Gospel, Ryan Stevenson – The Gospel – Single
  • Radiate, Hannah Kerr – Overflow

(the podcast does not have music in it from this week forward)

Please send any comments or any question to lightoftruth@dominicans.ie and we will take them into account in the programs to come.

Light of Truth – 34

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This week we continue on the topic of the second question in the Summa Theologica: The Existence of God.

Fr. Luuk Jansen OP talks with Bro. Thomas Davenport OP how modern science connects with our faith. Bro. Thomas Davenport OP, having a PhD in physics from Stanford University, talks about the relation betweed Physics, Philosophy, modern science and the effect of for example the developing of Quantum Physics on our faith.

The music this week:

  • Never Been a Moment, Micah Tyler
  • Still, Hillary Scott & The Scott Family
  • Home, Chris Tomlin

Please send any comments or any question to lightoftruth@dominicans.ie and we will take them into account in the programs to come.

 

Light of Truth – 33

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This week we continue to Question 2 in the Summa Theologica written by Saint Thomas Aquians.

Fr. Luuk Jansen OP talks with Fr. Conor McDonagh OP about the proofs for the existence of God. St. Thomas asks the question if we can proof that God exists, and gives various reasons how we can come to the conclusion that we can. One example is through what we see in the world and that it points to the fact that there has to be something that created everything. This and more in this weeks episode.

The music this week:

  • What a Beautiful name, Hillsong Worship, 5:41
  • Open Hands, Laura Story, 3:14
  • Oh my soul, Casting Crowns – The Very Next Thing, 4:16

Please send any comments or any question to lightoftruth@dominicans.ie and we will take them into account in the programs to come.

Light of Truth – 32

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This week we start qitrh Question 1 in the Summa Theologicam written by Saint Thomas Aquians.

Fr. Luuk Jansen OP continues to talk with Fr. John Harris OP about the start of the Summa. The first ‘question’ in the Summa looks at some of the foundations of our journey to God. Why do we need God to reveal Himself? What is the role of theology, and how does it fit in with Philosophy and reason. These are some of the topics of this weeks dicussion.

The music this week:

  1. Never Been a Moment, Micah Tyler – Different – EP
  2. Even If – MercyMe – Lifer
  3. Change the World (feat. Hollyn) – Derek Minor – Reflection

Please send any comments or any question to lightoftruth@dominicans.ie and we will take them into account in the programs to come.

 

Light of Truth – 31

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The Light of Truth will from this week forward take a little more of a structured approach by following the Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas OP in order to discover more in depth various aspects of our faith.

Fr. Luuk Jansen OP talks with Fr. John Harris OP about Saint Thomas as a theologian and the reason he wrote the Summa. There will also be a review on the structure of the work, and the fundamental role of God in the doing of Theology. It is not the intention to provide a commentary on the Summa in the program but rather to use the questions in the Summa to look at our faith and make it more relevant in our own lives by deepening our understanding of God.

Please send any comments or any question to lightoftruth@dominicans.ie and we will take them into account in the programs to come.