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Sep 13, 2026
R. Scott ClarkHOST
These things haven't happened, and again, they don't happen until the 19th and 20th centuries.
R. Scott ClarkHOST
In the 13th century, Thomas Aquinas defended the doctrine of of the assumption of the Blessed Virgin, as did the Franciscan theologian Bonaventure.
R. Scott ClarkHOST
So, the doctrine is becoming formalized, but again, no ecclesiastical dogma.
R. Scott ClarkHOST
Benedict XIV, who lived from the late 17th century, 1675 to 1758, declared it a, quote, probable opinion.
Stephen CopelandHOST
We discuss Merton's surprising path that led him deep into the Franciscan tradition, as well as the fascinating details as to why he became a Trappist monk and not a Franciscan friar.
Stephen CopelandHOST
Dan also unpacks how John Dunst Scotus's idea of particularity shaped Merton's famous teaching about the true self and the false self, and he also delves into how Scotus and St. Bonaventure both informed Merton's expansive Christology.
Stephen CopelandHOST
We discuss how a life grounded in contemplation freed Merton for prophetic engagement in the world, inter-religious dialogue, and exploring some of the most pressing social questions of his time.
Stephen CopelandHOST
so whether you are a long time Merton reader or just beginning to explore the Franciscan tradition this conversation reveals I think how deeply the two are intertwined and why both still speak so powerfully and prophetically to us today This episode, of course, is Merton-centric, but Dan is brilliant in his ability to relate Merton's journey to ours and explore why his spirituality is so important for us to consider today.
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Daniel P. HoranGUEST
I always think of Merton as like St. Augustine of Hippo, who talks about being converted first in mind and then in heart.
Daniel P. HoranGUEST
In his mind, it was hearing the preaching of Ambrose of Milan, who's – You know, erudite and intellectual and shows the depth of the tradition.
Daniel P. HoranGUEST
And Merton, through reading Etienne Gilson's book on medieval philosophy, learns about Thomas Aquinas and St. Bonaventure and so forth.
Daniel P. HoranGUEST
He starts having conversations with one of his professors at Columbia and a professor named Dan Walsh, who wrote his dissertation on John Duns Scotus under Etienne Gilson up in the University of Toronto.
Dennis BrayGUEST
Yeah, so Pseudo-Dionysius came along and other thinkers.
Dennis BrayGUEST
Augustine, my personal favorite theologian, St. Bonaventure, contemporary of Aquinas.
Dennis BrayGUEST
And these folks came along and they took this general idea, but they gave it a hard think in one hand, but with a close reading of Scripture in the other hand.
Dennis BrayGUEST
And they said, no, we can't get in with the pagans on everything.
JosephHOST
This is a Franciscan emphasis.
JosephHOST
We think of St. Bonaventure, the great intellectual in the Franciscan tradition.
JosephHOST
And his most important work, perhaps, is the journey of the soul into God, where he talks about how we first look outside of ourselves to the things that God has created, and what we find is his power, his wisdom, his goodness, and it leads us to him.
JosephHOST
It's the first step as we look at the beauty of his creation.
Lydia SchumacherGUEST
These ideas were picked up then and just elaborated in the next generation.
Lydia SchumacherGUEST
A couple of names that might be more familiar to you, Alexander's successor, Bonaventure, a Franciscan, and Thomas Aquinas, um, both presupposed the, the ideas about ordination they'd been passed down and introduced a new element, and that was the, the idea that you had to have a male body in order to be ordained.
Lydia SchumacherGUEST
So Bonaventure repeats the idea of Verfinus that if you, uh, want to represent Christ at the altar, you must have a male body.
Lydia SchumacherGUEST
Uh, women can't represent Christ in that way, so it's a non-starter.
Lydia SchumacherGUEST
The other argument Bonaventure makes, and this was-- this has a long history, this argument in the church, is that women were made from Adam's side.
Lydia SchumacherGUEST
Women were deceived in the garden, and as a result, they're naturally intellectually inferior and subordinate, and, um, so they don't have the dignified status that would be needed to serve in that kind of role.
Lydia SchumacherGUEST
Aquinas makes the similar-- a very similar case that women exist in a natural state of subjection.
Lydia SchumacherGUEST
He goes so far as to say that you could administer the rite of ordination to a woman all day long till you're blue in the face, and it won't take because she's got the wrong body.
Terrence M. StantonHOST
I wish to name thee with love.
Terrence M. StantonHOST
I desire that my love may every hour remind me to call on thee, so that I may be able to exclaim with Saint Bonaventure, O name of the mother of God, thou art my love.
Terrence M. StantonHOST
My own dear Mary, O my beloved Jesus, may your most sweet names reign in my heart and in all hearts.
Terrence M. StantonHOST
Grant that I may forget all others to remember and always invoke your adorable names alone.
Matt BolterGUEST
Long story short, he said, hey, why don't you come do a PhD with me at the University of Dallas? And that's what I did.
Matt BolterGUEST
And so that was an amazing experience that I had, which allowed me to study things like St. Bonaventure and Joseph Ratzinger's theology of St. Bonaventure.
Matt BolterGUEST
And so that was one of the things that happened when I was in Tyler.
Matt BolterGUEST
Which, you know, it's just a part of my story.
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All that is worthy of love, the worldly minded hate, while they esteem all that is worthy of contempt.
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Thirteenth day, St. Bonaventure said, It is by the road of humiliation we reach humility.
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Let the Christian never blush then to embrace practices of humility.
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Let him not put away from him humbling occupations, and never let him try to magnify by his praise the employment with which he is charged.
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Twenty-seventh day, St. Francis said, We are so much the wiser by how much better we observe what we know, because it is by the fruit we recognize the tree.
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Twenty-eighth day, St. Francis said, Blessed are those who suffer patiently from others' blame, reproach, and contradictions.
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29th day, St. Bonaventure said, We cannot help all who suffer, but we can at least have compassion on all and see Jesus Christ in all.
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Thirtieth day, St. Francis said, Happy he who receives reproaches with gentleness, listens respectfully to all that is said to him, confesses his fault humbly, and hastens to make satisfaction for it.
Deanna PierreHOST
Amen.
Deanna PierreHOST
Quote from St. Bonaventure.
Deanna PierreHOST
Three things are necessary to everyone.
Deanna PierreHOST
Truth of faith, which brings understanding.
Michael PortelliNARRATOR
the nine choirs of angels, men of all ages, sexes, conditions, and religions, good or bad, nay, even the devils themselves, willingly or unwillingly, are compelled, by the force of truth, to call her blessed.
Michael PortelliNARRATOR
St. Bonaventure tells us that all the angels in heaven cry out incessantly to her, Sancta, Sancta, Sancta Maria, De genitrex et vergo.
Michael PortelliNARRATOR
Holy, Holy, Holy Mary, Mother of God and Virgin, and that they offer to her millions and millions of times a day the angelical salutation, Ave Maria, prostrating themselves before her and begging of her in her graciousness to honour them with some of her commands.
Michael PortelliNARRATOR
St. Michael, as St. Augustine says, although the Prince of all the heavenly court is the most zealous in honoring her and causing her to be honored while he waits always in expectation that he may have the honor to go at her bidding to render service to some one of her servants the whole earth is full of her glory especially among christians amongst whom she is taken as the protectress of many kingdoms provinces dioceses and cities Numbers of cathedrals are consecrated to God under her name.
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Michael PortelliNARRATOR
We must conclude that the Most Holy Virgin being necessary to God by a necessity which we call hypothetical in consequence of His will, she is far more necessary to men in order for them to arrive at their last end.
Michael PortelliNARRATOR
We must not confound devotions to Our Blessed Lady with devotions to the other saints, as if devotion to her was not far more necessary than devotion to them, or as if devotion to her were a matter of supererogation.
Michael PortelliNARRATOR
The learned and pious Suarez the Jesuit, the erudite and devout Justus Lipsius, Doctor of Levain, and many others, have proved invincibly in consequence of the sentiments of the Fathers, and among others of St. Augustine, St. Ephraim, Deacon of Edessa, St. Cyril of Jerusalem, St. Germanus of Constantinople, St. John Damascene, St. Anselm, St. Bernard, St. Bernardine, St. Thomas, and St. Bonaventure.
Michael PortelliNARRATOR
That devotion to Our Blessed Lady is necessary to salvation, and that even in the opinion of ecolampadius and some other heretics it is an infallible mark of reprobation to have no esteem and love for the holy virgin while on the other hand it is an infallible mark of predestination to be entirely and truly devoted to her the figures and words of the old and new testaments prove this the sentiments and examples of the saints confirm it reason and experience teach and demonstrate it even the devil and his crew, constrained by the force of truth, have often been obliged to avow it in their own despite.
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