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Patient Endurance in the Face of the Coming of our Lord | Fr. John Corbett, O.P.

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Catholic Intellectual Tradition, Catholic, Thomism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Catholicism, Philosophy, Christianity

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🗓️ 8 May 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

This lecture was given on December 2nd, 2023, at St. Albert’s Priory.

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About the Speaker:

Fr. John Corbett, O.P. (St Gertrude’s Priory) is a native of Columbus Ohio. He graduated from Providence College in 1973 and was ordained a Dominican priest in 1980. He received the Doctorate in Sacred Theology from Fribourg University in Switzerland. He has taught moral theology at Providence College, The Josephinum in Columbus and the Dominican House of Studies in Washington D.C. He is currently helping both in the Novitiate with spiritual direction and in the wider parish with Mass, preaching, and confessions.

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0:19.5

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0:28.6

Afternoon.

0:29.7

Nice, last time we were here,

0:34.2

I was speaking with you,

0:35.6

we talked about the Christ of that really as like a prism

0:41.0

that catches the single light of God and breaks it up into many colors so that we can, you know,

0:49.1

appreciate them one by one and then their inner order.

1:03.8

That's true about the more particular topic I have today too, which is spiritual warfare and true discernment, because this is all part of the disciples' response to Christ.

1:09.9

You know, the first thing that we talked about was describe the coming of Christ.

1:15.5

What does it mean for him to come at the end of time?

1:19.0

But then there's the practical question that should issue from that,

1:25.7

and that is our proper response.

1:28.7

How should the disciple respond to the good news of Christ coming again in glory?

1:38.4

Well, the first thing, I would think that you can distill from some of the better, a major, and some of the

1:47.5

minor episodes in the book of Revelation, enough beams of light to construct a beginning

1:54.0

response to the question, what should we do in the advent of our Lord's return?

2:00.1

First thing, I think we should do that the book of Revelation

2:05.6

invites us to is to have great confidence because he is with us. There is a pledge of his

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