The Sacraments in the Christian Life (Part 1) | Fr. Dominic Langevin, OP

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🗓️ 22 April 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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0:00.0	So thank you for coming out this afternoon. It's my great joy to be here with you this afternoon to present these lectures to have celebrated Mass already.
0:10.0	And I look forward to meeting you during the break after this first session and in the time after the second session as well.
0:27.0	Hopefully everyone should have a handout that you're able to get if you don't have one at the door.
0:32.0	The handout gives a rough progression of the topics that I'm going to discuss.
0:40.5	Give some texts, also visual aids to help understand the material, and then finally at the back some possible further reading. So if you don't have a copy, please avail yourself of one.
0:50.7	In the gospel at mass, with which we began today's conference, we heard Christ say,
0:57.4	Blessed are those who hear the Word of God and observe it.
1:02.3	We rightly reverence the Word of God, the Word who is the Second Person of the Trinity,
1:08.1	and the Word that is His Sacred Scriptures.
1:12.5	St. Jerome, a doctor of the Trinity and the word that is his sacred scriptures. St. Jerome, a doctor of the church from the 4th and 5th centuries,
1:18.4	St. Jerome is famous for having said,
1:20.5	ignorance of the scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
1:25.6	If we do not know the scriptures, if we do not hear the scriptures, if we ignore the
1:30.7	scriptures, we ignore Christ. Ignorance of the scriptures is ignorance of Christ. Furthermore,
1:40.3	ignorance of the sacraments is ignorance of Christ.
1:45.3	St. Jerome would have held for that, so were the other fathers of the church.
1:50.1	It's not just ignorance of the sacraments that is detrimental.
1:53.7	It's any avoidance, abuse, or limitation of the sacraments that is detrimental.
2:06.6	Today we want to explore why the ignorance and absence of the sacraments that is detrimental. Today we want to explore why the ignorance and absence of the sacraments is so detrimental, or put more positively, why the reception of a sacrament is so beneficial.
2:13.6	Our particular guide today for these conferences will be St. Thomas Aquinas.
2:19.3	I do not intend to march through texts of Aquinas with you.
2:23.3	Rather, I will give you a synthesis of his sacramental teaching.
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