Love in Person—in the Trinity and in Our Souls | Fr. John Baptist Ku, O.P.
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🗓️ 30 January 2023
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Fr. Ku's handout can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/2p88mf28 This lecture was given on November 9, 2022, at Trinity University. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Fr. John Baptist Ku, O.P., 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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| 0:51.1 | Okay, so we want to think about how the Holy Spirit is in the Trinity, how the Holy Spirit's in God, you could say. |
| 0:58.3 | I mean, the Holy Spirit is God, but we can think about how he's in the Trinity, and so how he is with respect to the Father and the Son. |
| 1:05.1 | And then we'll think about how he's in us. |
| 1:08.7 | Okay, so that's what we'll do that. |
| 1:10.7 | And to deal with the first question, |
| 1:12.3 | we'll appeal to a scriptural analogy for the Trinity, |
| 1:15.6 | the analogy of the word and love, |
| 1:17.5 | something that really, if you could, |
| 1:20.7 | should be taught in every catechism curriculum. |
| 1:23.3 | I mean, maybe it's a little bit too... |
| 1:26.3 | I don't know, it would be too difficult. |
| 1:27.4 | You can tell me at the end whether you think so. |
| 1:29.4 | But it's really, when I first learned about it, I thought, well, why didn't anybody tell me earlier? |
| 1:33.8 | But it is true. |
| 1:34.6 | It's a little bit, it might be a bit, yeah, it could be challenging at certain levels. |
| 1:41.3 | So our acts, but we'll see our acts of knowing and loving offer us the best |
| 1:47.9 | analogy for understanding the Son and the Holy Spirit. So we'll go through that. And then the second |
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