Soul of Christ, Sanctify Me | Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P.

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🗓️ 18 November 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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This talk was given at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. as part of the intellectual retreat, "Grace," offered for students and young professionals in the Washington, D.C. area, Sept. 30-Oct. 1, 2022. For more information on upcoming events, visit us online: thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Father Andrew Hofer, O.P., grew up as the youngest of ten children on a Kansas farm. He entered the Dominican Province of St. Joseph in 1995 and professed simple vows the following year. He made his profession of solemn vows in the Great Jubilee Year of 2000, and was ordained a deacon in 2001 and a priest in 2002. His assignments have included serving as a parochial vicar in Rhode Island, a missionary in Kenya, a doctoral student at the University of Notre Dame, a formator at the Dominican House of Studies, and a member of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception. He is finishing a book titled The Word in Our Flesh: A Return to Patristic Preaching, whose research the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship funded through its Teacher-Scholar Grant.

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0:13.0	I'd like for us to begin with the prayer, Anima Christi.
0:20.0	In the name of the Father and of the Son of the Holy Spirit, Amen.
0:23.6	Soul of Christ, sanctify me. Body of Christ save me. Blood of Christ inebriate me.
0:31.6	Water from the side of Christ wash me. Passion of Christ, strengthen me. Oh good Jesus, hear me. Within your wounds, wash me. Passion of Christ, strengthen me. Oh, good Jesus, hear me. Within your wounds, hide me.
0:42.1	Parted from you, let me never be. From the evil foe, protect me. At the hour of my death, call me.
0:49.3	To come to you, bid me, so that with your saints I may be praising you forever and ever amen in the name of the
0:58.0	father and of the son and the holy spirit this talk is titled soul of Christ sanctify me by praying to the
1:08.5	soul of Christ present in the Eucharist we are in communion with the source of all grace and can be more and more sanctified, transformed by Christ's Holy Spirit into the life of Christ, to the glory of God the Father.
1:25.6	I'd like for us to think about this topic of Soul of Christ,
1:30.5	sanctify me through first considering the historical background and context of the prayer
1:36.6	known as Anamacristi, Soul of Christ. Then we will go to the Christological doctrine for our grace,
1:45.4	and then consider the Eucharistic spirituality of grace before we conclude.
1:51.7	First, historical background and context for the prayer, Anima Christi.
1:57.7	You can find all sorts of things on the web.
2:11.6	And if you were to Google Anamacristi and look at what people are saying about this prayer soul of Christ, you would find all sorts of things. You could find a website that credits its authorship to St. Ignatius of Lulah, who died in the year 1556.
2:20.3	You could also find that it is a prayer from around the 14th century.
2:26.3	The latter is correct. St. Ignatius of Lolo loved the prayer, and it is associated with his spiritual exercises,
2:36.1	but it was present about two centuries before him.
2:39.8	There's a scholar by the name of Earl Jeffrey Richards, who has an essay titled The Prayer,
2:45.5	Anima Christie and Dominican Popular Devotion, in a volume titled Poverty and Devotion in Mendicant cultures.
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