The Mystery Of Prayer | Prof. Josh Revelle

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🗓️ 22 March 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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This talk was given on October 8, 2021 at St. Joseph's Retreat Center as part of "Prayer in the Thought of St. Thomas Aquinas: A Weekend Intellectual Retreat." For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Joshua Revelle is an adjunct instructor at Mount Saint Mary College, with a PhD in Spirituality from The Catholic University of America. His areas of specialization are dogmatic and spiritual theology, especially in St. Thomas Aquinas. He also enjoys teaching Biblical theology. His research and teaching are geared toward the integration of theory and practice.

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0:08.0	I'd like to begin with two quotations from the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
0:15.0	These are paragraphs 2726 and 2564.
0:20.0	Christian prayer is the action of God and of man,
0:25.0	springing forth from both the Holy Spirit and ourselves.
0:29.4	And those who seek God by prayer are quickly discouraged
0:33.1	because they do not know that prayer comes also from the Holy Spirit
0:37.4	and not from themselves alone.
0:41.3	You'll see why these are relevant in a few minutes.
0:44.2	So the title of the seasonings conference is the mystery of prayer.
0:47.7	And what is a mystery?
0:49.4	Properly speaking, a mystery is something that is hidden or unknown.
0:53.6	So the title of the 1990s TV series
0:56.9	Unsolved Mysteries was redundant because once a mystery is solved, it's no longer a mystery.
1:02.6	But typically, when we come to know something, we don't know it completely. And so even things
1:07.7	that are partially known or clear to us remain mysteries in other respects.
1:12.3	So we speak of the mysteries of nature.
1:14.5	We know a lot about thunderstorms and human skin cells and how gravity works, but there's a lot more that we don't know about these things.
1:23.1	So they're mysteries still.
1:24.5	We speak about human beings as mysteries.
1:27.4	We can spend a lot of time with individual people. We can become friends with them. We speak about human beings as mysteries. We can spend a lot of time with
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