Grace and Truth

Here is a grand read by Fr. Paul Murray called "The Word into Words: Grace and Truth in St. Bernard of Clairvaux." Fr. Murray is a Dominican Friar of the Irish Province and teaches at the Pontifical Faculty of Saint Thomas Aquinas, the Angelicum, in Rome. He preached retreats for Mother Teresa and her sisters. He worked with death-row inmates in Africa and Ireland. He has written extensively on Jonah, T. S. Eliot, and Dominican spirituality. This paper deals with mercy and self-knowledge in a wonderfully lucid way. Here is the article and here is a recording of his lecture on the same talk.

I had Fr. Murray as a professor for three classes. He reads poetry like no other and his lectures are finely crafted syntheses of theology, philosophy, and literature. Listening to this will be well worth it.