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What is Needed for Happiness? | Father Dominic Legge, O.P.

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The Importance of Knowing God

The contemplative life is about knowing God as he reveals himself to us, says Thomas Aquinas. Faith creates a personal relationship with God, a relationship of friendship in so far as it erupts into love,. And that's what the contemplativeLife is about, I think, for Aquinas. It looks like we have this amazing case where somebody was really smart and like God, oh, it's kind of a cool thought, but he's not a state because he says smart.

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