The Death of the Lord | Fr. James Brent, O.P.

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🗓️ 12 August 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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This talk was given as part of the Thomistic Institute's Holy Week Retreat, April 9-12, 2020. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website: thomisticinstitute.org.

About the speaker:

Fr. James Dominic Brent, O.P. was born and raised in Michigan. He pursued his undergraduate and graduate studies in Philosophy, and completed his doctorate in Philosophy at Saint Louis University on the epistemic status of Christian beliefs according to Saint Thomas Aquinas. He has articles in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy on Natural Theology, in the Oxford Handbook of Thomas Aquinas on “God’s Knowledge and Will”, and an article forthcoming on “Thomas Aquinas” in the Oxford Handbook of the Epistemology of Theology. He earned his STL from the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception, and was ordained a priest in the same year. He taught in the School of Philosophy at The Catholic University of America from 2010- 2014, and spent the year of 2014-2015 doing full time itinerant preaching on college campuses across the United States.

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0:00.0	Let's begin with a prayer. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen.
0:06.0	Come Holy Spirit, fill our hearts, enkindle in us the fire of your divine love.
0:12.0	Send forth thy Spirit and they shall be created and you shall renew the face of the earth.
0:18.0	Let us pray.
0:20.0	O God who by the light of the Holy Spirit did instruct the hearts of the earth. Let us pray. Oh God, who by the light of the Holy Spirit, did instruct
0:23.3	the hearts of thy faithful people, grant us by the same light that we always may be wise
0:28.2	and ever rejoice in his consolation through the same Christ, our Lord. Amen. In the name of the
0:35.9	Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen.
0:40.3	The title of our conference this morning is The Death of the Lord, and we begin our Holy Saturday morning meditation with a reading from the letter to the Hebrews chapter 2, verses 14 to 15. Since therefore the children
0:57.5	share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same nature, that through death
1:05.8	he might destroy him who has the power of death, that is the devil, and deliver all those who through fear of death
1:16.2	were subject to lifelong bondage.
1:21.2	The passage is important for us to consider
1:23.5	because it tells us that our Lord Jesus destroyed the power of death, he destroyed the fear of death,
1:31.4	and by doing so, destroyed the grip or the bondage of the devil over the whole human race.
1:40.1	The devil held the whole human race in bondage through fear of death, and the Lord destroyed
1:47.0	the fear of death.
1:48.0	Now, how did the devil hold us in bondage through the fear of death?
1:55.0	The fear of death, according to St. Thomas Aquinas, is the root of all fear. Since all fear is of evil and lesser
2:05.3	evils are really prefigurations or anticipations of the ultimate natural evil, which is death.
2:14.6	So by destroying the fear of death, the Lord can destroy all fear or uproot fear from our souls,
2:23.4	and fear is the number one thing that the devil uses to manipulate us. So how did the Lord
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