St. Augustine on Friendship with God | Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P.

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🗓️ 27 June 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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This talk was offered for the Aquinas Society of Cincinnati, hosted at St. Gertrude's Priory on March 26th, 2019. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: www.thomisticinstitute.org

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St. Augustine of Hippo has vastly influenced Catholic thinking, and is the most quoted theologian in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. He was a man always surrounded by friends, and came to have deep insight into friendship—especially with God. This talk will consider St. Augustine’s insights into the Lord’s initiative of friendship with us, and our response to enjoy the Lord.

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0:00.0	I'd like for us to begin to think back in terms of St. Augustine. This is the Aquinas Society.
0:06.1	Why are we talking about St. Augustine? Okay. Well, because St. Thomas certainly did.
0:12.4	St. Thomas cites St. Augustine about 10,000 times. About 10,000 times, more so than any other father of the church. And sometimes people will set
0:26.2	Aquinas and Augustine up as rivals to one another. You can't really think about St. Thomas
0:32.6	without going to St. Augustine. It's been said that St. Thomas is in a continuous theological dialogue
0:38.8	with Augustine. So then in terms of how appropriate it is for the Aquinas Society to have a talk
0:45.5	especially featuring St. Augustine of Hippo. So let's just think about this person, okay,
0:51.3	this friend of God, St. Augustine at Hippo, that he became the most
0:57.6	influential father of the church. He is cited more than anybody else of the ecclesiastical
1:04.1	writers in the catechism of the Catholic Church. He surpasses St. Thomas Aquinas. He has some of the most famous literature in not only the Catholic Church's history, but also Western civilization.
1:19.4	So in terms of, I brought props, confessions, okay, the confessions of St. Augustine,
1:24.8	or the De Trinitate on the Trinity by St. Augustine, or the
1:30.4	mammoth work, the city of God. Okay, the great and difficult work. Just again and again,
1:37.3	he has left us writings that are so influential for our Catholic thinking and for Western civilization. So some, and to be honest, we have about
1:49.7	five million words from him. About five million words. He was born in, on November 13, 354.
2:00.7	He tells us about his birthday party in the Debeata Vita.
2:04.2	So we know actually when, in terms of how he was born on November 13th. And then he dies August
2:08.9	28th and 430. And he died praying the penitential Psalms that were posted on the walls next to his bed,
2:20.1	and he was dying and crying.
2:23.9	Okay?
2:24.3	So in terms of that he always knew himself as a sinner in need of God's grace.
2:35.6	He's called the Doctor of Grace, the Doctor of Grace.
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