Personal Relationship with the Persons of the Trinity | Fr. John Baptist Ku, O.P.

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🗓️ 5 April 2022

⏱️ 76 minutes

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This lecture was given on February 7, 2022 at St. Mary Mother of God Catholic Church in Washington, D.C. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Fr. John Baptist Ku, O.P., 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 Parish in Providence, R.I., he completed his doctoral studies at the University of Fribourg in 2009. He now teaches at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., where he has also served as book review editor of The Thomist, chaplain to commuter students, and chaplain to the Immaculate Conception Chapter of Third Order Dominicans, and assistant student master. He served as student master and subprior at St. Dominic Priory from 2015-2018, and is currently the subprior.

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0:08.0	So we want to think about personal relationship with the persons of the Trinity.
0:15.0	And the way to establish and maintain a relationship with another person is to communicate with that person.
0:23.5	In the case of God, this means addressing the distinct persons, right?
0:28.1	Praying to the distinct persons.
0:31.3	Now, if you look at the internet, you can find novenas and litanies to each of the three persons, right, to the Father, to the Son,
0:38.9	or to the Holy Spirit. And that's certainly recommended. That's how you would foster a relationship
0:44.7	with each person of the Trinity. But you didn't need me to come out here and tell you that. You
0:49.8	surely already knew that, even if you weren't thinking about it so intentionally.
0:55.2	And so what I wish to do is to lead you to a deeper reflection on the distinct personalities
1:02.3	of each person so that when you pray, these novenas, these litanies, your own personal, spontaneous
1:09.8	prayer, you might have a richer insight into
1:13.5	the personality of the person you address. Because God's way of being infinitely exceeds
1:21.5	our experience of being, it's difficult to talk about the Trinity. But because we have received the revelation
1:30.3	of the Trinity from Jesus Christ, our Savior, we must speak of the Trinity. We must speak of the
1:37.3	divine persons. And it's an immense privilege to do so, to address God in his distinction of persons.
1:47.0	It would be of little value for me to tell you what you already know or could discover without too much effort.
1:54.0	So to be of more significant service to you, I hope, I will lead you on a somewhat steep theological climb, not to a sheer
2:04.9	cliff that you can't scale, but to move from simplistic accounts to a more robust understanding
2:12.0	of God the Trinity. And that might challenge you a little, but that's good. It makes for good exercise.
2:18.3	And I noticed there are a couple of students here from the House of Studies, so for you it might be less of a steep climb, but more of a review.
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