Lent is for Lovers | Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P.

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🗓️ 14 February 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Fr. Andrew Hofer connects the themes of Lent and love, explaining how God's sacrificial love, as revealed in Christ, calls us to a deeper, more authentic love that purifies our affections and strengthens us for sacrifice, particularly within the context of marriage.

This lecture was given on February 13th, 2024, at Dominican House of Studies.

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About the Speaker:

Originally from a farm in Kansas, Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P., is a priest in the Dominican Province of St. Joseph who teaches on the pontifical faculty of the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC where he is editor-in-chief of The Thomist. He has authored Christ in the Life and Teaching of Gregory of Nazianzus and The Power of Patristic Preaching: The Word in Our Flesh . He is editor or co-editor of several volumes, including The Oxford Handbook of Deification, The Cambridge Companion to Augustine's Sermons, Thomas Aquinas and the Greek Fathers, Thomas Aquinas and the Crisis of Christology, and Thomas Aquinas as Spiritual Teacher.

Keywords: Ash Wednesday, Catherine of Siena, Friendship, Lent, Love, Marriage, Sacrament of Charity, Sacrifice, Saint Valentine's Day, Theology of the Body

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tumistic Institute podcast.
0:06.0	Our mission is to promote the Catholic intellectual tradition in the university, the church, and the wider public square.
0:12.0	The lectures on this podcast are organized by university students at Tumistic Institute chapters around the world.
0:18.0	To learn more and to attend these events, visit us at to mystic institute.org.
0:24.3	The title of the talk this evening is Lentis for Lovers, and it has a story.
0:28.6	So the last time St. Valentine's Day and Ash Wednesday coincided, if my memory is certainly
0:35.5	right, was in 2018.
0:39.6	And at that time, the Dominican friars of St.
0:46.8	Gertrudes in Cincinnati, Ohio, then had a campaign, Lentis for Lovers. So I'm stealing it from them.
0:55.0	And we're here in Virginia. And I see on license plate after a license plate, Virginia is for lovers. So now for us to think about Lent is for lovers here and now.
1:00.5	We begin with a reading from 1 John chapter 4.
1:05.1	This is 1st John chapter 4 verses 7 through 11.
1:09.6	Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God. Everyone who loves is
1:17.1	begothed by God and knows God. Whoever is without love does not know God, for God is love.
1:25.8	In this way, the love of God was revealed to us. God sent his only son into the world
1:31.0	so that we might have life through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God, but that he
1:37.9	loved us and sent his son as expiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also must love one another. Let us pray.
1:50.2	All loving God, we praise you for the love that you show us in the suffering, death, and
1:55.7	resurrection of your son. We ask you now to pour forth the gift of your Holy Spirit, who is love, upon us, that we, in the
2:04.7	spirit, may be enraptured by your love and taken up by you to you. We make this prayer
2:13.2	of the name of Jesus Christ, your son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with the unity of the Holy
2:16.9	Spirit, God, forever and ever.
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