Christ in the O Antiphons | Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P.

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🗓️ 19 December 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Merry Christmas from the Thomistic Institute! This week, we are reposting some of our favorite talks related to Christmas and the Incarnation of our Lord. Fr. Hofer's handout can be found here: tinyurl.com/ycc663wz This lecture was given on December 18, 2021, at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., 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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1:00.2	generosity, and may God bless you this Advent and Christmas season.
1:10.1	This talk is titled Christ and the Oantophons.
1:14.2	And its argument is this.
1:16.0	By meditating on Christ and the Oantophons, we can, in God's grace, be more receptive to our Savior's coming.
1:23.2	This talk has three parts.
1:25.4	First, we'll consider an overview of the O antophons. What are these Oantophons?
1:30.2	Then we're going to consider Christ in the Old Testament. And then third, look at Christ in the Oantophon
1:38.1	that is for today, December 18th, and that is O adenai. So those are the three parts. Oh, an overview of the Oantophons, then going back to
1:47.3	Christ in the Old Testament, and then having a focus on Christ and the O Adonai Antiphon. So what are the Oantophons?
1:56.1	Well, we're experiencing now in the sacred liturgy, from December 17th through December 23rd at Vespers, the church sings
2:04.0	these O antiphons, and sure enough, they begin with the letter O. Okay, so it's an address.
2:11.3	Okay, to whom are we speaking? Christ. So we're speaking to Jesus Christ, who is coming, and we want then to focus our attention on him.
2:22.3	And we are doing this with texts that are ancient.
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