Of the Father's Love Begotten | Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P. (duplicate)

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🗓️ 25 February 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Fr. Hofer's handout can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/55cnce22 This lecture was given on December 19, 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 Tamistic Institute.
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0:11.0	So we'll begin with a reading and a prayer.
0:13.0	This is from the Holy Gospel according to St. Luke,
0:16.0	2, verses 1 through 14.
0:19.0	In those days, a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that the whole world
0:24.1	should be enrolled. This was the first enrollment when Corinius was governor of Syria. So all went
0:30.6	to be enrolled, each to his own town. And Joseph too went out from Galilee, from the town of Zat
0:36.3	Nazareth to Judea, to the city of David that is called Bethlehem,
0:40.3	because he was of the house and family of David, to be enrolled with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child.
0:47.3	While they were there, the time came for her to have her child, and she gave birth to her firstborn son. She wrapped him in
0:57.0	swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger because there was no room for them in the end.
1:03.1	Now, there were shepherds in that region living in the fields and keeping the night watch over
1:07.6	their flock. The angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the
1:11.6	Lord shone around them, and they were struck with great fear. The angel said to them,
1:16.9	Do not be afraid. For behold, I proclaim to you good news of great joy that will be for all the
1:23.2	people. For today, in the city of David, a Savior has been born for you, who is Messiah and Lord.
1:30.3	And this will be a sign for you. You will find an infant wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger.
1:37.3	And suddenly, there was a multitude of the heavenly hosts with the angel praising God and saying,
1:43.3	Glory to God in the highest and unearth, peace to those on whom his favor rests.
1:48.6	Let us pray.
1:50.3	Almighty God, most merciful Father, we praise you that the Son eternally born of you
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