The Cross and Resurrection of Jesus Christ according to St. Augustine | Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P.

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🗓️ 27 June 2022

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This talk was given on April 11, 2022 at the University of Florida. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P., is Associate Professor and Director of the Doctoral Program at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception, Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC. His research appears in Augustinianum, The Journal of the History of Ideas, Nova et Vetera, Pro Ecclesia, Studia Patristica, The Thomist, Vigiliae Christianae, and other journals and volume collections. He is the author of Christ in the Life and Teaching of Gregory of Nazianzus (Oxford University Press); the editor of Divinization: Becoming Icons of Christ through the Liturgy (Hillenbrand Books); co-author of A Living Sacrifice: Guidance for Men Discerning Religious Life (Vianney Publications), and co-editor of Thomas Aquinas and the Greek Fathers (Sapientia Press) and Thomas Aquinas and the Crisis of Christology (Sapientia Press). He is presently co-editing The Oxford Handbook of Deification and The Cambridge Companion to Augustine's Sermons, and he is finishing his book funded by a Calvin Institute of Christian Worship Teacher-Scholar grant, The Word in Our Flesh: The Power of Patristic Preaching.

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0:00.0	This talk is brought to you by the Tamistic Institute.
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0:11.4	On this Monday of Holy Week, the Catholic Church in her liturgy the hours or divine office
0:18.6	has the office of readings.
0:24.9	And there is a second reading that follows upon a first reading of Scripture.
0:30.6	Oftentimes the second reading is a patristic reading, a reading from one of the early doctors of the church. Would you believe that today the reading is from St. Augustine?
0:36.3	And so I have my breviary here, and it is by St. Augustine. And so I have my breviary here, and it is by St. Augustine, from a sermon by St. Augustine,
0:43.5	and I just want you to hear what the conclusion of this reading is.
0:48.0	The Apostle Paul saw Christ and extolled his claim to glory, St. Augustine preachers. He had many great and inspired
0:57.2	things to say about Christ, but he did not say that he boasted in Christ's wonderful works
1:02.2	in creating the world since he was God with the Father, or in ruling the world, though he was also
1:08.6	a man like us. Rather, he said, let me not boast except in the
1:13.7	cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. St. Augustine then is having us think back on what is written in the
1:22.3	Bible here in the letter to the Galatians and about how Paul could have boasted in lots of things,
1:30.2	but he did not want to boast in anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1:36.4	And as Christians then, the mystery of the cross is at the very heart of our faith.
1:43.2	And we do not think of the cross without the resurrection,
1:47.0	nor can we think of the resurrection without the cross. Okay, that it is always together in terms of
1:53.0	thinking of the cross and resurrection, what is customarily called these days the paschal mystery.
2:00.5	On the cross and resurrection of Jesus Christ,
2:02.8	according to St. Augustine, I have a division of two parts. The first is to think about the
2:08.4	cross and resurrection in the life of St. Augustine of Hippo, and then the second is the cross
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