Our Father . . . Hallowed Be Thy Name | Fr. John Baptist Ku, O.P.

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🗓️ 16 May 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Access Fr. Ku's handout here: https://tinyurl.com/a37v477v This lecture was given on March 25, 2022 at the Dominican House of Studies as part of the Thomistic Institute's Annual Spring Thomistic Circles Conference: "Our Father: Prayer and Theology." For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Fr. John Baptist Ku 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 V Parish in Providence, Rhode Island, he completed his doctoral studies in dogmatic theology at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland and began teaching for the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception in 2009.

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0:08.0	So the treatments of the first petition of the Lord's Prayer show a striking consistency of interpretation from the earliest fathers through Aquinas, namely that the words
0:23.0	hallowed be thy name are a prayer for divinization. I would have expected the emphasis to be
0:30.6	on the praise of God. After all, we're saying to our father in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
0:37.1	And Aquinas and others explicitly state that the praise of God must rank first.
0:42.9	However, their attention in their expositions on this petition is largely focused on our being
0:48.8	made like our Heavenly Father.
0:51.5	This is the point that I wish to make today.
0:55.5	And I didn't set out to prove this theme. Rather, I was totally ignorant of it and discovered it in my investigation of the topic.
1:02.1	After finding this theme in the Fathers of the Church on Aquinas, I also found it naturally in
1:07.3	secondary literature, such as Father Paul Murray's praying with confidence, Aquinas
1:12.6	on the Lord's Prayer, that's from 2010, and Gerhard Lofinks, The Our Father, a New Reading,
1:18.3	from 2019, and Mysteries of the Lord's Prayer, Wisdom from the Early Church from 2021 by Father
1:26.6	John Gavin, who will speak to us tomorrow.
1:30.9	But to me, the more obvious connection would be between the invocation, our father,
1:36.5	and filiation or divinization, rather than the first petition, hallowed be thy name.
1:41.3	And indeed, Father Gavin discusses divine adoption and growth in divine
1:45.0	likeness more in connection with addressing God as our father than specifically with the first
1:50.3	petition, although he finds imitation of God there as well. So my presentation will unfold in
1:57.9	three sections, two very short sections before we turn our attention to Aquinas in the third section.
2:03.6	In the first section, I'll have a few general observations about the Lord's Prayer.
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