The Advent of Christ In the Flesh and Glory | Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, O.P.

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🗓️ 16 December 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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This lecture was given as part of the annual Wisdom of Aquinas series at New York University on 7 December 2019.

A native of Louisiana, Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, O.P., entered the Dominican Province of St. Joseph in 2005. After several years of pastoral work in New York City, Fr. Guilbeau began doctoral studies in moral theology at the University of Fribourg, where he completed a dissertation on St. Thomas Aquinas’s doctrine of the common good. In addition to his teaching, Fr. Guilbeau serves as senior editor of Aleteia.org (English edition). He is also the current prior of the Dominican House of Studies.

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0:00.0	So our theme this afternoon is O'Kham, Immanuel, Aquinas on the three
0:05.0	Advent of Christ.
0:07.0	And we're going to look at this first talk at the
0:10.0	Advents of Christ in the Flesh and in Glory.
0:16.0	So it's the first season of the liturgical year.
0:20.0	A Happy New Year, by the way. We all just began a the liturgical year, a happy new year, by the way.
0:21.4	We all just began a new liturgical year last weekend.
0:24.8	As the first season of the liturgical year, Advent ensures that we begin another year-long meditation on the life of our Lord,
0:34.6	on the right intellectual and spiritual foot.
0:38.2	How does Advent do this?
0:41.8	The season puts the end and purpose
0:45.9	of the church's year-long meditation
0:49.4	on the life of Christ squarely before us.
0:53.0	Why do we celebrate the birth of the Lord, the mysteries of his public life, and finally
0:59.7	his passion, death, and resurrection each year?
1:05.7	Advent helps us to see we celebrate those mysteries, because we await the one who was born, taught, suffered,
1:16.8	died, rose, and ascended to come again.
1:22.1	As Christians, we wait for the second coming of the Lord.
1:27.9	That is why we meditate on and celebrate repeatedly,
1:32.8	year after year, the mysteries of his first coming.
1:39.6	Advent helps us to recollect, to become clear again on this simple fact.
1:48.5	As the baptized, we stand between the two comings of the Lord, the two great manifestations
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