Show Notes
Saint Thomas Aquinas taught that every human being desires happiness, yet the ways we often seek happiness cannot fully satisfy the human heart. In this lecture delivered at the inaugural Aquinas KC conference at Donnelly College, Fr. Dominic Legge, OP, president of the Dominican House of Studies, uses the Summa Theologiae to explain how our pursuit of happiness, our desire for the good, is meant to draw us towards God Himself. What will make me happy? What kind of life ought I to be living or to be aiming for? We desire to know, to love, and to be loved. Those desires are rooted in our nature. Knowledge of God is the highest way to satisfy those desires for knowledge and for love. The ultimate purpose of human life, seen in the light of God, is that we are made to know and love God, and our lives are about that. The smallest taste of the highest things gives the greatest pleasure. During the lecture, Fr. Legge helps us realize that our thirst for happiness is finally a thirst for God.
Read the most recent issue of Credo Magazine. Christians have always affirmed the goodness of the body. Yet our culture is profoundly confused about its significance. This issue of Credo Magazine takes a closer look at the body as a visible gift that reveals the mystery of God, so that we might better understand what it means to be truly human.
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