Christ in the O Antiphons | Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P. (duplicate)

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🗓️ 23 February 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Fr. Hofer's handout can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/ycc663wz This lecture was given on December 18, 2021 at the Dominican House of Studies during "Of the Father’s Love Begotten: An Intellectual Retreat on the Incarnation" for the Thomistic Institute’s Texas-area campus chapters. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Father Andrew Hofer, O.P., grew up as the youngest of ten children on a Kansas farm. He entered the Dominican Province of St. Joseph in 1995 and professed simple vows the following year. He made his profession of solemn vows in the Great Jubilee Year of 2000, and was ordained a deacon in 2001 and a priest in 2002. His assignments have included serving as a parochial vicar in Rhode Island, a missionary in Kenya, a doctoral student at the University of Notre Dame, a formator at the Dominican House of Studies, and a member of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception. He is finishing a book titled The Word in Our Flesh: A Return to Patristic Preaching, whose research the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship funded through its Teacher-Scholar Grant.

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0:00.0	This talk is brought to you by the Thomistic Institute.
0:02.8	For more talks like this, visit us at tamisticinstitute.org.
0:10.6	This talk is titled Christ and the O antiphons.
0:14.5	And its argument is this.
0:16.5	By meditating on Christ and the O antiphons,
0:19.2	we can, in God's grace, be more receptive to our Savior's
0:22.7	coming.
0:23.9	This talk has three parts.
0:25.9	First, we'll consider it an overview of the Oantophons.
0:28.9	What are these Oantophons?
0:31.0	Then we're going to consider Christ in the Old Testament.
0:34.9	And then third, look at Christ in the O antiphon that is for today, December 18th, and that is O Adonai.
0:42.9	So those are the three parts. Oh, an overview of the Oantophons, then going back to Christ in the
0:48.5	Old Testament, and then having a focus on Christ and the O adani antiphon.
0:55.2	So what are the O antiphons?
0:56.6	Well, we're experiencing now in the sacred liturgy, from December 17th through December 23rd
1:02.4	at Vespers, the church sings these O antiphons, and sure enough, they begin with the letter
1:08.9	O.
1:09.9	Okay? So it's an address. Okay, to whom are we speaking?
1:13.6	Christ. So we're speaking to Jesus Christ, who is coming, and we want then to focus our attention
1:21.5	on him. And we are doing this with texts that are ancient. All right, we don't know exactly how old the oantophons are.
1:31.0	Sometimes people will say 8th or 9th centuries.
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