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"We can never fully repay God for the very gift of existence itself, not to mention all the other things he does for us. We can't have a relationship of strict justice with God; justice is where we give equally in return for what we received. If God has given us everything, we can never fully reach back to that, but we can try, we can give him something. The Psalms capture this: 'How can I repay the Lord for his goodness to me? The cup of salvation I will raise; I will call on the Lord's name.' So our worship of God is reaching out; it is trying to do something, that is not quite justice, but reaching out toward it. This is called by St. Thomas Aquinas a potential part of justice: It shares in something that justice is but it is not the full thing itself." —Fr. Innocent Smith, O.P.
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About the speaker:
Fr. Innocent Smith, O.P. was born in California and raised in Indiana. He discerned a vocation to the Dominicans while studying music and philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, and joined the St. Joseph Province of the Order of Preachers in 2008. After the novitiate in Cincinnati and philosophy and theology studies at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., Fr. Innocent was ordained to the priesthood in 2015 by Archbishop Charles Brown. Fr. Innocent’s teaching and research interests include homiletics, liturgy, sacramental theology, ecclesiology, and sacred music. His S.T.L. thesis, “In Collecta Dicitur: The Oration as a Theological Authority for Thomas Aquinas,” explored the importance of the liturgy as a source for scholastic theology. His doctoral dissertation, “Doers of the Word: Bible Missals and the Celebration of the Dominican Liturgy,” focused on medieval manuscripts of the Bible that also contain liturgical texts for the celebration of Mass. Fr. Innocent examined manuscripts at libraries and museums throughout Europe and North America that form an important but previously understudied body of evidence for understanding the liturgical reception of the Bible and the development of the liturgy in the Middle Ages. In addition to publishing popular and scholarly articles related to theology, liturgy, and music, Fr. Innocent has edited chant books that make the musical and liturgical tradition of the Dominican Order available for use in the contemporary liturgy.
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