The Hiddenness of Grace for St. Thomas Aquinas & St. Thérèse of Lisieux | Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P.

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🗓️ 14 November 2022

⏱️ 41 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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0:00.0	This talk is brought to you by the Thomistic Institute.
0:04.3	For more talks like this, visit us at tamistic institute.org.
0:12.2	This passage is from the Holy Gospel according to Luke chapter 10.
0:17.2	The church proclaims this today at Mass.
0:22.0	At that very moment, Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said,
0:26.5	I give you praise, Father, Lord of heaven and earth.
0:29.8	For although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned,
0:33.0	you have revealed them to the childlike.
0:35.4	Yes, Father, such has been your gracious will. Let us pray.
0:42.5	Almighty Father, we thank you for your gracious will. We ask you now to fill us with your Holy Spirit
0:50.8	so that in Christ we may praise you for the hiddenness of grace.
0:56.1	We make this prayer in the name of Jesus Christ, your son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with
0:59.5	you in unity of the Holy Spirit, God, forever and ever.
1:03.1	St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Teresa of Lizzure.
1:06.6	In the name of the Father and of the Son, the Holy Spirit.
1:10.0	This talk is titled, the Hiddenness of Grace for St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Therese of
1:14.6	Luz.
1:15.7	And I'd like for us to begin with the Catechism of the Catholic Church number 2005.
1:20.5	Since it belongs to the supernatural order, grace escapes our experience and cannot be known except by faith.
1:30.3	We cannot therefore rely on our feelings or our works to conclude that we are justified and saved.
1:38.3	However, according to the Lord's words, thus you will know them by their fruits,
1:43.3	reflection on God's blessings in our life
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