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

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🗓️ 31 May 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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

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About the Speaker:

Fr. John Baptist Ku, O.P. (Dominican House of Studies) was born in Manhattan (1965) and grew up in Fairfax, Virginia. After graduating from the University of Virginia, he worked at AT&T for five years before entering the Dominican Order in 1992. After serving for three years in St. Pius Parish in Providence, R.I., he completed his doctoral studies at the University of Fribourg in 2009. 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 (the faculty’s journal), chaplain to commuter students, and chaplain to the Immaculate Conception Chapter of Third Order Dominicans, and assistant student master. He served as student master and subprior at St. Dominic Priory from 2015-2018, and is currently the subprior.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tomistic Institute podcast.
0:06.2	Our mission is to promote the Catholic intellectual tradition in the university, the church, and the wider public square.
0:13.1	The lectures on this podcast are organized by university students at Temistic Institute chapters around the world.
0:19.5	To learn more and to attend these events, visit us at
0:22.5	to mystic institute.org. First, I want to build on Father Tim's answer to two questions. I don't
0:33.5	even know if the people who ask the questions are here, but one was about God's eternity,
0:41.7	which reminded me of a Calvin and Hobbs cartoon, so Father Blan was saying, you know, we're constantly moving from the past into the present through the now. So we're stuck in the now, but unlike
0:47.1	God's eternal now, ours is a succession. So the Calvin and Harbs cartoons showed, Calvin
0:53.5	asked his mother, said, can I have a
0:55.5	popsicle? And she said, not now. And then the next frame, he's standing there, he said, it's still now.
1:01.2	Next thing is like, it's always now. And so then she was, you know, under the crushing weight of that
1:06.3	philosophical analysis, the last frame has their both eating a popsicle. But so God, but God's,
1:12.8	God's now is not in succession. So one way to think of this is, so God's not immutable. He's not
1:19.8	inert, like a block of styrofoam, you know, in ours, frozen out of space, but rather he's
1:25.8	maxed out. He's already, like we're constantly
1:28.9	trying to get better and improve things. Sometimes they get worse, but we're constantly moving
1:33.4	and changing to make things better. God already is totally everything, anything could possibly be.
1:39.8	He's maxed out, so he's, that's why he doesn't change, not because he's locked up, locked up, but because he has nothing to change into. He's pure perfection maxed out.
1:49.5	We could think of this in terms of, if we, just by the example of time, so how he's outside
1:54.6	of time, think of predestination. So at the end, God is not going to be surprised by who makes it to heaven and who doesn't. He's not going to be like, wait, he made it?
2:02.9	How did that happen?
2:04.1	Right?
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