Prayer and contemplation – Dominican Friars Ireland https://dominicans.ie Wed, 17 Apr 2019 08:43:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://dominicans.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/cropped-DOMIE-32x32.jpg Prayer and contemplation – Dominican Friars Ireland https://dominicans.ie 32 32 ‘Late Have I Loved You’: An Introduction to St Augustine’s Confessions https://dominicans.ie/late-have-i-loved-you-an-introduction-to-st-augustines-confessions/ https://dominicans.ie/late-have-i-loved-you-an-introduction-to-st-augustines-confessions/#respond Wed, 17 Apr 2019 08:43:27 +0000 https://dominicans.ie/?p=5609

  Structure of talk Introduction Augustine’s life (up to conversion) Augustine and our post-Christian contemporaries The Confessions: style, structure, content Augustine’s conversion (Confessions V-IX) Questions for discussion Conclusion Quotations You are great, Lord, and highly to be praised (Ps 47:2), great is your power and your wisdom is immeasurable (Ps 146:5). Man, a little piece […]]]> https://dominicans.ie/late-have-i-loved-you-an-introduction-to-st-augustines-confessions/feed/ 0 Aquinas and Prayer https://dominicans.ie/aquinas-on-prayer/ https://dominicans.ie/aquinas-on-prayer/#respond Fri, 29 Jan 2016 08:58:34 +0000 https://dominicans.ie/?p=2858

“The starting point of prayer is desire for eternal life, and this persists in all the other works we do in due order, because all of them should be ordered towards obtaining eternal life, and so the desire for eternal life persists virtually in all the good deeds we do,” and again Thomas teaches, “we […]]]> https://dominicans.ie/aquinas-on-prayer/feed/ 0