Mariology 101 - Part 1 | Fr. James Brent, O.P.

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🗓️ 20 May 2024

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This lecture was given on December 8th, 2024, at an Intellectual Retreat at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C.

About the speaker:

Fr. James Dominic Brent is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Chaplain to Commuter Students at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington DC. He has articles in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy on Natural Theology, in the Oxford Handbook of Thomas Aquinas on “God’s Knowledge and Will”, and an article forthcoming on “Thomas Aquinas” in the Oxford Handbook of the Epistemology of Theology.

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0:00.0	Brothers and sisters, the purpose of our gathering here this weekend is to fix the eyes of our hearts on the Blessed Virgin Mary,
0:09.0	to linger with her, to ponder her, to ponder her many attributes and activities, and to study them with care.
0:18.0	The point of our study is not simply to understand the Virgin,
0:21.6	theologically, but to love her, all the more. The point, indeed, is to abandon
0:28.6	ourselves to her, in all devotion. Her role in our lives is immense. Her whole being
0:36.6	is at the service of our sanctification, our growth in grace, and our union with God.
0:43.1	For she is the mother of God.
0:45.6	She's the mother of our Lord Jesus Christ, and she's the spiritual mother of us all.
0:52.0	Our weekend is essentially a short course in Mariology 101. But the point of it is to learn
0:59.0	how the love of Mary really leads us more deeply into union with Jesus Christ. So where shall we begin?
1:07.0	Catholics are generally familiar with various litanies to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Litanies are
1:15.2	sent up in her honor and they essentially consist in lists of her names, her titles, her
1:22.0	attributes and her activities, her marvelous attributes. Holy Mother of God, pray for us. Holy Virgin of virgins, pray for us. Mystical rose, pray for us. House of gold, pray for us. Queen of peace, pray for us. The litanies of the Western Church can go on for a long time, but they're rather short in comparison to the acathist hymns that we find to the Theotokos in the eastern side of the church.
1:55.0	The most common acathist hymn to Our Lady calls her the assurance of those who pray in silence, the door of solemn mystery,
2:05.1	the receptacle of the wisdom of God, the ark gilded by the spirit, the leader of mental
2:13.1	formation, and the one who weds the faithful to the Lord, just to give a few.
2:20.3	Litanies and acathist hymns have as their purpose not only to render due honor to our lady
2:26.3	and to invoke her intercession, but also to initiate the Christian people into her mystery.
2:33.3	To educate us in the truth of who Mary is,
2:37.5	who Mary is for God and who Mary is for us.
2:41.6	Every one of her names, titles, or activities listed in such prayers
2:47.3	points to a property of the woman herself, her person, her nature, her grace, her
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