The Mysteries of Christ in the Story of Salvation | Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P.

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🗓️ 24 December 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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This lecture was given on April 30th, 2024, at University of Oxford.

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About the Speaker:

Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. (Dominican House of Studies) is from Pennsylvania and graduated from Franciscan University of Steubenville. He previously served as the Assistant Director of Campus Outreach for the Thomistic Institute in Washington, DC, and associate pastor of St. Louis Bertrand Catholic Church in Louisville, KY where he also taught at Bellarmine University. He currently serves as an adjunct professor of dogmatic theology at the Dominican House of Studies and an Assistant Director of the Thomistic Institute. He is a contributor on the Pints with Aquinas show and a co-host of the Catholic Classics podcast.

Fr. Gregory is the author of Prudence: Choose Confidently, Live Boldly (Our Sunday Visitor, 2022) and co-author with Matt Fradd of Marian Consecration With Aquinas: A Nine Day Path for Growing Closer to the Mother of God (TAN Books, 2020).

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0:55.6	at to mystic institute.org. So I suppose the question with which we begin, as the title is
1:01.6	proposed, is why exactly did Christ live a human life as he did? Obviously, or perhaps not obviously,
1:08.2	but obviously for our purposes, he didn't need to.
1:18.0	That God could have saved us in any way he thought fit to save us, and it needn't have been through the sacred humanity of our Lord Jesus Christ or through the mysteries that he performed
1:23.7	and suffered. But I think specifically the question of why a whole human life,
1:29.1	why a human life lived to this degree or extent, why a whole human life lived to its term.
1:35.9	And I think one way in which to complicate the question, so as to uncomplicate the question,
1:40.8	is to consider it first from the vantage of merit. So perhaps you've come across this
1:45.8	notion of merit before. And in the older translation of the Novus Ordo prior to 2010, we had very
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