An Evening With The Hillbilly Thomists

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Buy Tickets Doors open at 6 p.m., show at 7 p.m. Flannery O’Connor said that her fiction was concerned with the ways grace is at work among people who do not have access to the sacraments. The Thomist (one who follows the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas ) believes that the invisible grace of God can be at work in visible things, just as the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, in the person of Christ. The Hillbilly Thomists are a band of friars of the Order of Preachers ( Dominicans ). After playing music together for several years, they released their debut album ( The Hillbilly Thomists ) in 2017, which reached #3 on the Billboard bluegrass chart and mostly consisted in bluegrass standards and Americana favorites. Since then, the friars in the band have been doing what Dominican friars do: contemplating, studying, and preaching. They’ve also been writing songs. In 2021, they released their second studio album, Living for the Other Side , released on the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas. A