Finding Christ in the Desert: He Is The Other | Fr. Gabriel O'Donnell, O.P.

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🗓️ 1 June 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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This lecture was given on April, 2 2022 at St. Albert the Great Priory as part of the intellectual retreat "To Be Human in the Presence of God: St. Thomas Aquinas and Desert Spirituality." For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Fr. O’Donnell grew up in Syracuse, New York. After two years as a student at Providence College he entered the Order of Preachers in 1963 and was ordained a priest in 1970. In 1971 he earned an MA in Liturgical Studies from the University of Notre Dame and in 1980 earned an STD degree in the area of Liturgical Spiritual Theology from the Pontifical Faculty for Spirituality, the Teresianum, in Rome. He has previously taught at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception, St. Charles Seminary in Philadelphia, PA and the Angelicum in Rome. In addition to teaching he currently serves as a vice-postulator for the cause for sainthood of Father Michael J. McGivney, the founder of the Knights of Columbus and as vice-postulator for the cause of Rose Hawthorne, founder of the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne, NY. He previously survived as postulator for the cause of canonization of Father Paul of Graymoor, which has also been submitted to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints in Rome. With Robin Mass, Ph.D., Fr. O’Donnell is the author of Spiritual Traditions for the Contemporary Church and has contributed to A Love That Never Ends: A Key to the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

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0:00.0	This talk is brought to you by the Thomistic Institute. For more talks like this, visit us at
0:06.0	tamistic institute.org. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
0:15.0	In the Lord, we beseech you, Lord, all of our actions, so that with wisdom and right judgment
0:24.1	all things may begin in you and in you come to perfection through Christ our Lord.
0:32.2	Our lady, seat of wisdom.
0:34.2	Great for us.
0:35.1	In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
0:40.0	One of the difficulties with the topic that we're discussing these days is that there's
0:46.6	not enough time because it's one of these topics that every step along the way opens up
0:52.8	new avenues.
0:54.0	And so you're walking
0:55.2	down this road and there are all these byways and some of them are dead ends but a lot
1:01.0	of them are not what we're going to talk about this afternoon is really continuation in a
1:08.5	sense of what I said this morning that is that our faith is really not
1:12.1	about so much about behavior modification as it is about a relationship. And it's not simply
1:18.1	about a relationship with the self, it's a relationship with the other. And of course, for us,
1:23.2	the other is Jesus Christ. And so I wanted to talk about our relationship with Christ and how in the
1:31.4	desert tradition it's understood and how it develops and grows and I want to
1:37.1	begin with two things first a brief a brief sentence or two from the letter to
1:43.2	the Philippians St. Paul of the Philippians in the third chapter.
1:46.0	He says this,
1:47.0	Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing word of knowing Christ Jesus, my Lord.
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