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Watch Fr. Ambrose Little's Veritas 2025 keynote, "Why Study? Wonder as the Gateway to Contemplation," and register for Veritas 2026: Study and Sanctity, below.

"The intellect and will, the mind and heart, come together in intellectual vision. We call this type of activity 'contemplation,' which is the activity of the mind by which we gaze upon a truth, with the intellect, and simply delight in what we see."

https://t.co/3LBAeB5oyg

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[Dominican Rosary Pilgrimage @DominicanRosary]

Today we celebrate the Ascension of the Lord.

Christ, having conquered sin and death, is lifted up in glory, yet he does not leave us. As he promises, “I am with you always, to the end of time.”

Alleluia.

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Exciting news! The TI is launching a Subtack! But we need some help from future readers. Please comment below your favorite of the names that have been suggested, or write one in!

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Apply before spots fill up for our first-ever summer undergraduate seminar on liberty, led by Fr. Gregory Pine and Fr. John Sica!

https://t.co/HYMtcB0BIa

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[Dominican Friars Foundation @dominicanfriars]

Desiring to grow closer to Christ? Find yourself wanting to know why we believe what we believe? Interested in meeting the Friars of Godsplaining?

Every year, Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P., Fr. Patrick Briscoe, O.P., Fr. Bonaventure Chapman, O.P., and Fr. Joseph-Anthony Kress, O.P., host both single day events and multi-day retreats aimed at specific topics regarding our Catholic faith.

Through Mass, Adoration, Confession, conferences, and more, you will learn more about our Catholic beliefs surrounded by a like-minded community who share your thirst for knowledge and love of Christ! Learn more and register here: https://t.co/AP7hcpDBOa

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TI Study Abroad 2026 on film 📷 We asked our students to document their semester, and they didn't disappoint! Applications for TI Study Abroad 2027 are open!

For more info, visit https://t.co/qF6oziJJcG

Photos by Kelsie Shammami. 

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[Fr. James Smith @prochristus]

Conversation is an art—and it can be learned.

@thomisticinst draws on St. Thomas Aquinas to recover real dialogue: thoughtful, charitable, grounded in truth.

Listen: https://t.co/FnFzTXbm47
Spotify: https://t.co/cZy2hJkNDn

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[Robert McNamara @macconmhara]

This is a talk I gave at a symposium for @ThomisticInst in Ireland at @StPatsMaynooth, on the theme of ‘Being Human in the Age of AI.’
https://t.co/jRM9Oszv1g

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This colloquium will feature Fr. Romanus Cessario, OP, Fr. Hyacinth Grubb, OP, Dr. Marie Hilliard, Fr. Columba Thomas, and Msgr. Andrew Wadsworth.

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The 2nd Annual Thomistic Bioethics Colloquium, centered around "Anointing of the Sick in its Pastoral, Theological, and Historical Dimensions,​" is open to the public for registration! Join the Dominican Healthcare Ministry on May 29th to hear from many qualified speakers on the topic! 

For more details, visit https://t.co/KA4zUeMuKb

#healthcare #thomism

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The 15th Annual Aquinas Philosophy Workshop will be held in DC this May and will explore Aquinas on act and potency in the company of leading scholars and students!

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APW Graduate Colloquium scholarship applications close tomorrow at 11:59 PM ET! Accepted students will receive a scholarship to cover the APW conference registration, meals, and lodging.

Apply at https://t.co/vqSEkT7pq9

#ThomasAquinas #GraduateSchool

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"Hence it is written (1 Cor. 15:57): "Thanks be to God who hath given us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." It was accordingly more fitting that we should be delivered by Christ's Passion than simply by God's good-will." 

- ST. III. Q46. A3.

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St. Thomas writes that “But in this that man was delivered by Christ's Passion, many other things besides deliverance from sin concurred for man's salvation.” He lists 5 of these.

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"Fifthly, because it redounded to man's greater dignity, that as man was overcome and deceived by the devil, so also it should be a man that should overthrow the devil; and as man deserved death, so a man by dying should vanquish death."