How Does the Trinity Dwell in our Souls? | Fr. John Baptist Ku, O.P.

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🗓️ 27 June 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This lecture was given on November 11th, 2023, at Dominican House of Studies.

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About the Speaker:

Fr. John Baptist Ku was born in Manhattan (1965) and grew up in Fairfax, Virginia. After graduating from School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Virginia, he worked in software design at AT&T for five years before entering the Dominican Order in 1992. After obtaining his S.T.B./M.Div. (1998) and S.T.L. (2000) at the Dominican House of Studies, he served for three years in St. Pius Parish in Providence, R.I., before going on to complete his studies doctoral studies at the University of Fribourg in 2009. He was awarded the Thomas Aquinas Dissertation Prize by the Aquinas Center for Theological Renewal at Ave Maria University (2010) for his dissertation on God the Father in the Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas. He now teaches at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., where he has also served as book review editor of The Thomist, chaplain to commuter students, and chaplain to the Immaculate Conception Chapter of Third Order Dominicans.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tomistic Institute podcast.
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0:13.1	The lectures on this podcast are organized by university students at Temistic Institute chapters around the world.
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0:25.3	You can begin with a prayer,
0:26.2	and the Father and the Son of the Holy Spirit.
0:27.9	Amen.
0:28.5	Heavenly Father, send your Holy Spirit upon us
0:30.6	to make us strong, loving, and wise
0:32.7	so that we might be conformed to you
0:34.4	and thereby come to glory through Christ our Lord.
0:36.9	Amen. The Father and Son and the Holy Spirit.
0:39.2	Actually, first I want to build on Father Tim's answer to two questions.
0:43.6	I don't even know if the people ask the questions are here, but one was about God's eternity,
0:47.8	which reminded me of a Calvin and Hobbs cartoon.
0:49.8	So Father Balam was saying, you know, we're constantly moving from the past into the present through the now.
0:55.3	So we're stuck in the now.
0:56.6	But unlike God's eternal now, we're ours is a succession.
1:01.2	So the Calvin Harps cartoons showed, Calvin asked his mother, said, can I have a popsicle?
1:06.3	And she said, not now.
1:07.8	And then the next frame, you stand there is like, it's still now. Next frame is like,
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