Mary As The New Eve | Prof. Paige Hochschild

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🗓️ 31 January 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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This lecture was given on 13 December 2019 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Dr. Paige Hochschild is a professor of historical and systematic theology at Mount St. Mary's University (MD), specializing in Augustine, Thomas Aquinas and the early Church. She also teaches philosophy courses at the Seminary at Mount St. Mary's. She has written a book on the place of memory in Augustine's theological anthropology, and publishes on the Church, education, tradition, 20th c. theological debates within the Church (Scripture, history; marriage).

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0:00.0	John Henry Newman, Saint.
0:02.0	Many people don't know that he wrote many hymns and poems.
0:06.0	So I just thought I'd start by reading the poem on the handout I gave you.
0:10.0	Okay.
0:11.0	Candlemas.
0:12.0	Same thing as Epiphany, right?
0:15.0	It's been a long time since I was an Anglican.
0:18.0	All right, the angel lights of Christmas mourned which shot across the sky.
0:21.9	Away they pass at candle mess.
0:23.7	They sparkle and they die.
0:25.9	Comfort of earth is brief at best,
0:27.9	although it be divine.
0:29.5	Like funeral lights for Christmas gone,
0:31.7	old Simeon's tapers shine.
0:34.3	And then for eight long weeks and more
0:36.4	we wait in twilight gray till the high candle sheds a beam on holy Saturday.
0:42.3	We wait along the penance tide of solemn fast and prayer, while song is hushed and lights grow dim in the sin-laden air.
0:51.3	And while the sword and Mary's soul is driven home, we hide.
0:56.2	In our own hearts and count the words of passion and of pride.
1:00.7	And still, though candle mists be spent and alaulia's oar,
1:05.1	Mary is music in our need and Jesus' light in store.
1:10.2	So I want to start from those last couple of lines,
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