The Passion Of The Lord | Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P.

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🗓️ 10 August 2020

⏱️ 19 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. Dominic Legge is the Director of the Thomistic Institute and an assistant professor in systematic theology at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. he holds a JD from Yale Law School, a PhL from the School of Philosophy of the Catholic University of America, and a doctorate in Sacred Theology from the University of Fribourg. He entered the Order of preachers in 2001 and was ordained a priest in 2007. He practiced law for several years as a trial attorney for the US Department of Justice before becoming a Dominican. He is the author of The Trinitarian Christology of St. Thomas Aquinas.

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0:00.0	In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.
0:06.6	We adore you, O Christ, and we praise you because by your Holy Cross you have redeemed the
0:11.5	world.
0:14.1	Welcome back to our Holy Retreat.
0:16.7	Today is Good Friday, the day when the church commemorates the trial, the crucifixion,
0:22.9	and the death of our Lord.
0:25.8	As you know well, the crucifix hangs in every Catholic church.
0:29.7	It hangs in many of our homes.
0:32.6	We start all of our prayers with the sign of the cross.
0:36.8	The cross is in a way central to the profession
0:40.0	of our faith. Our faith is a faith in the power of the cross of Christ. So what do we celebrate
0:50.8	on this day? This day which we call good, but which commemorates what seems to be a very
0:56.3	great evil. Historically speaking, of course, we profess that Jesus was crucified and died
1:04.7	outside of the walls of Jerusalem in Palestine some 2,000 years ago. And that this was not merely the death of a man, because Jesus
1:15.8	Christ, while true man, is also truly God. This was the death of the Son of God in his human
1:26.5	nature. Now, at at Christmas we celebrate the wonderful mystery
1:32.8	of the incarnation that the Son of God, the eternal word of the Father, entered this world
1:40.1	and joined a human nature to himself. He assumed a human nature without ceasing to be God.
1:48.1	He became one of us.
1:50.3	He came out of love for us.
1:53.3	He came to be our friend, to live with us.
1:59.0	But when we come to Good Friday, one might think that this amazing truth, that God has
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