Made One with Christ: Aquinas on Deification through the Sacraments | Prof. Daria Spezzano

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🗓️ 24 November 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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This lecture was given on April 15, 2023, at the West Coast Intellectual Retreat on Divinization. For more information on upcoming events, visit us at thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events About the Speaker: Dr. Daria Spezzano (Providence College) is Associate Professor of Theology at Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island. She holds a Ph.D. in Theology from the University of Notre Dame, and a Master’s in Liturgical Studies from the Liturgical Institute. Her book, The Glory of God's Grace: Deification according to St. Thomas Aquinas, was published by Sapientia Press in 2015. She has published 10 scholarly articles in Nova et Vetera, Cistercian Studies and the Journal of Moral Theology, and chapters in several edited volumes, including Aquinas on Initiation and Mystagogy (Peeters, 2019), Reading Job with St. Thomas Aquinas (CUA Press, 2020), Thomas Aquinas, Biblical Theologian (Emmaus Academic, 2021), and Thomas Aquinas and the Crisis of Christology (Sapientia Press, 2021). Among other projects, she is currently coediting a volume, Christ, the Wisdom of God in the Thought of St. Thomas Aquinas.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Thomistic Institute podcast.
0:05.9	Our mission is to promote the Catholic intellectual tradition in the university, the church, and the wider public square.
0:12.2	The lectures on this podcast are organized by university students at Temistic Institute chapters around the world.
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0:21.6	to mystic institute.org. Okay, so at this point, you've already learned more than most Catholics
0:30.9	know about deification. So what I'd like to do now is to reflect together in a little bit more depth about the ordinary way that
0:40.9	God has provided for us to get deified. That is through the sacraments in the church's liturgy.
0:48.0	So the liturgy is really the privileged way in which God fulfills the great and precious promises he makes us
0:58.0	to make us share in the divine nature.
1:02.0	So first, I want to say a little bit about what liturgy is.
1:06.0	I'm sure you've heard this word around the Thomistic Institute before.
1:11.6	In a basic way, it means the church's public worship.
1:16.0	So all the stuff we do in church as the body of Christ,
1:21.1	the celebration of sacraments like the Eucharist and baptism,
1:24.4	and also the literature of the hours, the divine office.
1:29.0	And because Christ is the head of his body, the church, every liturgy is celebrated by Christ
1:37.3	the head and all his members.
1:40.2	That is all the baptized.
1:42.9	So it's really Christ, you could say, who is the main celebrant.
1:47.0	He is the great high priest at every liturgy.
1:51.0	He's the one working in and through the ministers, through the priest, and through the people.
1:58.0	So it's really Christ who is glorifying Father throughout all time and singing
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