Peace in the Lives of Gregory of Nazianzus and Augustine of Hippo | Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P.

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🗓️ 19 April 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

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This talk was given on February 16th, 2023 at the University of Texas at Austin. For more information please visit thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P., grew up as the youngest of ten children on a farm in Kansas, and studied history, philosophy, and classics at Benedictine College. He then went to St Andrews, Scotland for a Master of Letters in medieval history. He entered the Order of Preachers as a son of the Province of St. Joseph, and was ordained a priest in 2002. After finishing his S.T.L. and serving as an associate pastor for a brief time, he was sent to Kenya as a missionary for two years. He taught at the Tangaza College of The Catholic University of Eastern Africa and other institutions in Nairobi. He returned to the U.S. and completed a Ph.D. in theology at the University of Notre Dame, with the primary area of history of Christianity, specializing in patristic theology with additional studies in medieval theology, and the secondary area of systematic theology. His research appears in such journals as Vigiliae Christianae, Augustinianum, International Journal of Systematic Theology, New Blackfriars, Nova et Vetera, Pro Ecclesia, The Thomist, Communio, and Angelicum and in books published by Catholic University of America Press and Ignatius Press. He is the author of Christ in the Life and Teaching of Gregory of Nazianzus (Oxford Early Christian Studies), Oxford University Press, 2013, and the editor of Divinization: Becoming Icons of Christ through the Liturgy, Hillenbrand Books, 2015.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tumistic Institute podcast.
0:08.2	Our mission is to promote the Catholic intellectual tradition in the university, the church, and the wider public square.
0:14.5	The lectures on this podcast are organized by university students at Tumistic Institute chapters around the world.
0:20.5	To learn more and to attend these events, visit us at to mysticinstitute.org.
0:29.6	Thank you very much, Zach. It's an honor to be with you at the University of Texas, Austin.
0:33.6	I'd like for us to begin with a reading from St. Paul's letter to the Philippians.
0:39.5	This is from Philippians chapter four, and then I'll lead us in a prayer.
0:44.6	Rejoice in the Lord always. I shall say it again, rejoice. Your kindness should be known to all.
0:50.4	The Lord is near. Have no anxiety to all, but in everything, by prayer and petition with Thanksgiving,
0:57.0	make your request known to God. Then the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard
1:03.6	your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable,
1:10.4	whatever is just, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure,
1:13.1	whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious.
1:16.1	If there is any excellence, and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
1:22.6	Keep on doing what you have learned and received and heard and seen in me.
1:27.2	Then the God of peace will be with you.
1:30.6	Let us pray. God of peace, we thank you for your gift of peace. We ask you now to pour forth
1:38.7	the Holy Spirit upon us that we at this time may search and find more and more your peace in our lives. We make this
1:49.0	prayer in the name of Jesus and we pray as He taught. Our Father, God in heaven. I will be
1:55.2	the name. The kingdom will be done on earth and sed is in heaven, give us this day our dearly bread,
2:04.2	and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not
2:10.9	in temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen. Our Lady Queen of Peace, St. Gregor of Nazianzis and Augustine of Hippo.
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