Love Comes to Grief: Scenes from Augustine's Confessions | Prof. Erika Kidd

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🗓️ 26 March 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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This lecture was given at Princeton University on February 15, 2020.

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Prof. Erika Kidd is Associate Professor of Catholic Studies and the Director of the Masters in Catholic Studies at the University of St. Thomas. For more information on the masters program, please visit www.stthomas.edu/catholicstudies/masters/.

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0:00.0	Well, I'm so grateful to you, Margarita, for the invitation to be here and to the Scala Foundation and for their hospitality.
0:14.0	And I'm grateful for all of you being here on a Saturday morning to listen to our remarks.
0:20.0	While I was getting ready for my talk today, I was thinking back on a Saturday morning to listen to our remarks.
0:21.6	While I was getting ready for my talk today, I was thinking back, you know, it's Valentine's Day,
0:25.6	thinking about love, and I was thinking back to one of the weirdest wedding gifts that I received.
0:31.6	My husband's friend showed up for a visit. He was a bachelor. My husband and I were newly married,
0:36.6	and this friend showed up with a video that he thought we all should watch. It was a bachelor. My husband and I were newly married, and this friend showed up with a
0:38.3	video that he thought we all should watch. It was a video on how to have a good marriage,
0:44.2	which don't ever give that as a wedding gift. But anyway, he thought this would be a good idea.
0:50.8	And so he sat us all down. Actually, my husband, because it was my husband's friend friend sat on the couch with him and watched the video and I sort of puttered
0:57.3	around the apartment just kind of listening in and I walked past the couch right at
1:02.3	the moment when the speaker said when I look at my wife I don't see Jennifer I see
1:09.3	Jesus and I thought okay's, I've heard enough. I don't need to stay here any longer, so I went, you know, cleaned up the dishes or something.
1:18.6	Anyway, but the speaker went on to explain, my husband told me later because I wasn't there, he went on to explain, you know, it's really important when you're loving your spouse.
1:28.3	You're not actually really loving your spouse.
1:30.3	What you're doing there is loving God.
1:32.3	And my husband, thankfully, now we've been married 17 years.
1:36.3	My husband, when we got a moment alone together later, he said to me,
1:41.3	actually, when I look at you, I do really see you. I don't just see
1:44.9	Jesus. That is a relief for all kinds of reasons. So, and we've, like I said, we've
1:51.1	been married 17 years despite not taking this event, and I think it's worked out okay. This
1:57.8	advice. So I tell you this story because I think it's an example of a not uncommon mistake.
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