The Mystery Of The Blessed Virgin Mary I Father Andrew Hofer, O.P.

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🗓️ 31 October 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Originally from a farm in Kansas, Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P., is a priest in the Dominican Province of St. Joseph who teaches on the pontifical faculty of the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC where he is editor-in-chief of The Thomist. He has authored Christ in the Life and Teaching of Gregory of Nazianzus and The Power of Patristic Preaching: The Word in Our Flesh. He is editor or co-editor of several volumes, including The Oxford Handbook of Deification, The Cambridge Companion to Augustine's Sermons, Thomas Aquinas and the Greek Fathers, Thomas Aquinas and the Crisis of Christology, and Thomas Aquinas as Spiritual Teacher.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tomistic Institute podcast.
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0:29.1	We'll begin with the Hail Mary, in the name
0:30.9	of the Father and the Son of the Holy Spirit.
0:33.3	Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.
0:35.9	Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit with thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
0:39.9	Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for our sinners now at the hour of our death, amen.
0:44.7	In the name of the Father and the Son of the Holy Spirit.
0:47.2	This talk is titled The Mystery of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
0:50.9	And I like for us to consider first off mystery. When we think about the word mystery, we can use the word mystery in different senses.
0:58.0	In theology, we consider mystery because this is something that is normally beyond our knowledge,
1:04.0	something that is beyond what we can naturally know, but has been revealed to us by God.
1:10.0	And in this mystery then, we then have a real
1:14.7	knowledge by faith of something that we normally would not know and that this would be inexhaustible.
1:21.4	Of all mysteries, the greatest mystery is the mystery of the Most Holy Trinity, that God is Father,
1:26.4	Son, and Holy Spirit. So that the Trinity is the chief and central mystery of the most holy trinity that god is father son and holy spirit so that the
1:28.7	trinity is the chief and central mystery of christian faith in life and then how we can consider
1:35.8	how all things in theology are related to god so theology precisely is that way of thinking about God and all things in relation to God
1:47.0	as their beginning and end. And then within that you consider how human life is a mystery,
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