Praying the Psalms in Friendship with God | Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P.

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🗓️ 26 November 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Fr. Andrew Hofer discusses the significance of the Psalms in fostering a friendship with God, highlighting teachings from St. Athanasius and St. Thomas Aquinas on how the Psalms serve as a mirror to our souls and a means to experience divine friendship through prayer and contemplation.

This lecture was given on November 4th, 2023, at The Dominican House of Studies.

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About the Speaker:

Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P., (Ph.D. Notre Dame) is professor of patristics and ancient languages at the Pontifical Faculty of the Dominican House of Studies where he serves as the director of the doctoral program. He authored Christ in the Life and Teaching of Gregory of Nazianzus (Oxford University Press, 2013) and The Power of Patristic Preaching: The Word in Our Flesh (Catholic University of America, 2023). He co-authored A Living Sacrifice: Guidance for Men Discerning Religious Life (Vianney Vocations, 2019). Editor-in-chief of the academic journal The Thomist, Hofer is editor or co-editor of several volumes including The Oxford Handbook of Deification, The Cambridge Companion to Augustine's Sermons, and Thomas Aquinas and the Greek Fathers. He enjoys speaking with students about their theological and spiritual questions.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tomistic Institute podcast.
0:06.8	Our mission is to promote the Catholic intellectual tradition in the university, the church, and the wider public square.
0:13.1	The lectures on this podcast are organized by university students at Temistic Institute chapters around the world.
0:19.1	To learn more and to attend these events, visit us
0:22.2	at To Mystic Institute.org. Thank you very much, Father John Mark, and thank you all. We'll begin
0:27.7	with a brief selection from Psalm 104 in a prayer. I will sing to the Lord all my life. Make music to my
0:36.3	God while I live. May my thoughts be pleasing to
0:39.9	him. I find my joy in the Lord. Let us pray. Almighty God, we praise you that you have given us the
0:48.6	words of the Psalms so that we may have our thoughts pleasing to you. We ask you now to pour forth your Holy Spirit upon us,
0:57.6	that we may more and more grow in your friendship
1:00.6	and find our joy in you.
1:03.9	We make this prayer in the name of Jesus Christ,
1:06.1	your son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with you
1:08.1	and unity of the Holy Spirit, God, forever and ever.
1:12.3	Our Lady, the Mother of God.
1:14.3	In the name of the Father and the Son, the Holy Spirit.
1:18.9	It's great to be with you for this talk titled,
1:21.6	Praying the Psalms in Friendship with God.
1:24.6	Praying the Psalms in Friendship with God for this Thimistic Institute retreat on friendship with God. Praying the Psalms in friendship with God for this Thomistic Institute retreat on friendship
1:29.8	with God. I'd like for us first to think about what the Psalms are and why the Psalms can be so
1:37.2	useful in this friendship with God. And then after that, I want to be able to tell you some things of what St. Thomas teaches
1:45.7	about the Holy Spirit in his work of making us friends of God.
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