Let Us Pray: Naming God and Our Needs in the Prayers of the Mass | Fr. Innocent Smith, O.P.

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🗓️ 21 February 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Fr. Smith's handout can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/4zwb74vr This talk was given on January 13, 2023, at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., as part of "The Mystery of the Liturgy." For more information, please visit thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Fr. Innocent Smith, O.P. was born in California and raised in Indiana. He discerned a vocation to the Dominicans while studying music and philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, and joined the St. Joseph Province of the Order of Preachers in 2008. After the novitiate in Cincinnati and philosophy and theology studies at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., Fr. Innocent was ordained to the priesthood in 2015 by Archbishop Charles Brown. Fr. Innocent’s teaching and research interests include homiletics, liturgy, sacramental theology, ecclesiology, and sacred music. His S.T.L. thesis, “In Collecta Dicitur: The Oration as a Theological Authority for Thomas Aquinas,” explored the importance of the liturgy as a source for scholastic theology. His doctoral dissertation, “Doers of the Word: Bible Missals and the Celebration of the Dominican Liturgy,” focused on medieval manuscripts of the Bible that also contain liturgical texts for the celebration of Mass. Fr. Innocent examined manuscripts at libraries and museums throughout Europe and North America that form an important but previously understudied body of evidence for understanding the liturgical reception of the Bible and the development of the liturgy in the Middle Ages. In addition to publishing popular and scholarly articles related to theology, liturgy, and music, Fr. Innocent has edited chant books that make the musical and liturgical tradition of the Dominican Order available for use in the contemporary liturgy.

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0:51.6	I wanted to start with a brief passage, a dialogue from a recent film, the film Lady Bird.
0:58.4	Perhaps some of you saw it, that was directed by Greta Gerwig.
1:01.9	And she's a non-Catholic, but she went to a Catholic high school.
1:05.1	And she made this film reflecting on her own experiences of the experience of entering into this very foreign world,
1:12.4	but also one that was very life-giving for her.
1:15.6	So towards the end of the film, this young woman, Lady Bird, has been really angsty about
1:21.1	her hometown of Sacramento, but she's written an essay about it, and she's meeting with
1:26.5	the sister who runs her high school,
1:28.8	and the sister is giving her advice on her college applications. And so Sister Sarah Jones says,
1:35.6	You clearly love Sacramento. And Lady Bird responds, I do. Sarah Jones says, you write about Sacramento
1:43.9	so affectionately and with such care.
1:47.0	Lady Bird says, I was just describing it.
1:51.0	And Sister Sarah Jones says, well, it comes across as love.
1:55.0	And Lady Bird responds, sure, I guess I pay attention.
2:00.0	And Sister Sarah Joan says, don't you think maybe they are the same thing, love and attention?
2:10.0	This is a helpful passage, I think, to begin our reflections on the prayers of the Mass, because the collects and prayers over the gifts and prayers after communion
2:19.5	that we're going to be thinking about and reading tonight, are prayers where most of us,
2:25.7	everyone except the priest, doesn't say them aloud, but rather we listen, we hear,
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