Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread | Fr. John Gavin, S.J.

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🗓️ 19 May 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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This lecture was given on March 26, 2022 at the Dominican House of Studies as part of the Thomistic Institute's Annual Spring Thomistic Circles Conference: "Our Father: Prayer and Theology." For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Father Gavin earned his B.A. from Boston College, his M.A. from Fordham University, and his M.Div. from the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkley. He received his Sacred Theology Doctorate in Rome and was a lecturer at the Pontifical Biblical Institute and the Gregorian University for three years. Fr. Gavin entered the Society of Jesus in 1991 and was ordained as a Catholic priest in 2002. He is the author of 'They are like the angels in the heavens': Angelology and Anthropology in the Thought of Maximus the Confessor (Augustinianum, 2009) and A Celtic Christology: The Incarnation According to John Scottus Eriugena (Cascade, 2014).

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0:00.0	This talk is brought to you by the Tamistic Institute.
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0:11.2	St. Cyprian of Carthage in the third century expressed well the sentiments of the early church
0:18.7	toward the Our Father.
0:20.8	He wrote,
0:22.1	How great dearest brothers are the mysteries of the Lord's Prayer?
0:27.0	How many, how magnificent, gathered together in a few words,
0:33.1	yet abundant in spiritual power.
0:36.2	Already in the first century, the didache was advising Christians
0:40.6	to pray the Our Father daily. And we find the first reference to the liturgical recitation
0:47.5	of the prayer in the fourth century in the mystagogical catechesis of Cyril of Jerusalem.
0:55.8	Some churches in the early centuries even reserved these sacred words to the baptized,
1:02.6	who alone could dare to call God Father.
1:06.7	The entire church, therefore, in her formative years, responded to Christ's command to pray like this.
1:16.8	In this paper, I will examine some of the church fathers' interpretations of the first so-called we petition,
1:25.8	give us our daily bread. I'll begin by reviewing some of the
1:32.1	textual problems in the versions of both Matthew and Luke, followed by an overview of six
1:39.7	patristic interpretations, paying special attention to the significance of bread and really what is it for us and
1:51.8	what does it do for us? The approaches of the fathers to this petition demonstrate the desire to
2:00.8	confront genuine textual problems while also
2:05.1	drawing forth pastoral and spiritual insights. So first, just a few things about the textual features
2:14.3	in this petition. I have a handout, at least with some of that.
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