Of the Father's Love Begotten | Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P.
The Thomistic Institute
The Thomistic Institute
4.8 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Merry Christmas from the Thomistic Institute! This week, we are reposting some of our favorite talks related to Christmas and the Incarnation of our Lord. Fr. Hofer's handout can be found here: tinyurl.com/55cnce22 This lecture was given on December 19, 2021, at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., during the intellectual retreat entitled, "Of the Father’s Love Begotten: An Intellectual Retreat on the Incarnation" for the Thomistic Institute’s Texas-area campus chapters. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Father Andrew Hofer, O.P., grew up as the youngest of ten children on a Kansas farm. He entered the Dominican Province of St. Joseph in 1995 and professed simple vows the following year. He made his profession of solemn vows in the Great Jubilee Year of 2000, and was ordained a deacon in 2001 and a priest in 2002. His assignments have included serving as a parochial vicar in Rhode Island, a missionary in Kenya, a doctoral student at the University of Notre Dame, a formator at the Dominican House of Studies, and a member of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception. He is finishing a book titled The Word in Our Flesh: A Return to Patristic Preaching, whose research the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship funded through its Teacher-Scholar Grant.
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| 1:10.1 | So we'll begin with a reading and a prayer. This is from the Holy Gospel according to St. Luke, |
| 1:15.6 | 2, verses 1 through 14. In those days, a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that the whole |
| 1:23.4 | world should be enrolled. This was the first enrollment when Corinius was governor of Syria, |
| 1:29.3 | so all went to be enrolled, each to his own town. And Joseph too went up from Galilee, from the |
| 1:35.3 | town of Zatnazareth to Judea, to the city of David that is called Bethlehem, because he was |
| 1:40.8 | of the house and family of David, to be enrolled with Mary, his betrothed, |
| 1:45.5 | who was with child. While they were there, the time came for her to have her child, |
| 1:52.4 | and she gave birth to her firstborn son. She wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a |
| 1:58.6 | manger because there was no room for them in the inn. |
| 2:02.7 | Now, there were shepherds in that region living in the fields and keeping the night watch over |
| 2:07.2 | their flock. The angel of the Lord appeared to them and the glory of the Lord shone around them, |
| 2:12.7 | and they were struck with great fear. The angel said to them, |
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