Why Did God Become Man? The Motives of the Incarnation | Fr. Jonah Teller, O.P.

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🗓️ 21 February 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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This lecture was given on December 17, 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: Fr. Jonah Teller was born in Cincinnati, OH, and grew up attending St. Gertrude Parish. He graduated from the University of Dallas with a Bachelor’s degree in English. Fr. Jonah is the second of seven children. “While visiting the House of Studies on a ‘Come and See’ weekend, I was really affected by the vitality and joy of the brethren; that zeal played an important role in guiding me to the Dominicans.”

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0:00.0	This talk is brought to you by the Tamistic Institute.
0:03.3	For more talks like this, visit us at tamistic institute.org.
0:10.6	This is from the first letter of John.
0:13.0	That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes,
0:19.3	which we have looked upon and touched with our hands,
0:22.8	concerning the word of life. The life was made manifest, and we saw it, and testify to it,
0:30.3	and proclaimed to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was made manifest to us.
0:36.5	That which we have seen and heard, we proclaim also to you,
0:41.4	so that you may have fellowship with us, and our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son,
0:48.0	Jesus Christ. And we are writing this that our joy may be complete.
0:57.7	And elsewhere, St. Paul writes simply,
1:04.5	I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus, my Lord.
1:07.8	I count everything as loss.
1:17.0	St. Paul was a man totally in love with Jesus Christ. And in light of Christ Jesus,
1:25.4	nothing else was worth knowing if you didn't know that one thing. This weekend is an opportunity for us to come to know the one worth knowing before whom all other
1:30.0	knowledge pales. We come to know, you know, wisdom incarnate himself, the Lord Jesus Christ.
1:37.1	So hopefully, you know, we ask the Holy Spirit to come upon us this weekend that it would be a time
1:42.2	that we come to know the Lord more and more deeply,
1:47.1	more and more truly.
1:49.1	Everything about Jesus is a lesson, everything he does, everything he is.
1:55.0	Christ is a teacher at all times.
1:57.6	There's no part of the gospel you can read that is not explicitly designed with
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