The Saints Interpreting 'I have called you friends' (Jn 15:15) | Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P.

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🗓️ 10 June 2024

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Summary

This lecture was given on November 4th, 2023, at The Dominican House of Studies.

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About the Speaker:

Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P., (Ph.D. Notre Dame) is professor of patristics and ancient languages at the Pontifical Faculty of the Dominican House of Studies where he serves as the director of the doctoral program. He authored Christ in the Life and Teaching of Gregory of Nazianzus (Oxford University Press, 2013) and The Power of Patristic Preaching: The Word in Our Flesh (Catholic University of America, 2023). He co-authored A Living Sacrifice: Guidance for Men Discerning Religious Life (Vianney Vocations, 2019). Editor-in-chief of the academic journal The Thomist, Hofer is editor or co-editor of several volumes including The Oxford Handbook of Deification, The Cambridge Companion to Augustine's Sermons, and Thomas Aquinas and the Greek Fathers. He enjoys speaking with students about their theological and spiritual questions.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tumistic Institute podcast.
0:05.0	Our mission is to promote the Catholic intellectual tradition in the university, the church, and the wider public square.
0:12.0	The lectures on this podcast are organized by university students at Tumistic Institute chapters around the world.
0:18.0	To learn more and to attend these events, visit us at
0:21.5	Thomisticinstitute.org. We'll begin with a reading from the Holy Gospel according to John.
0:27.6	This is St. John's Gospel chapter 15, verses 12 through 16. This is my commandment.
0:35.0	Love one another, as I love you. No one has greater love than this,
0:39.3	to lay down one's life for one's friends. You are my friends. If you do what I command you.
0:46.0	I no longer call you slaves because a slave does not know what his master is doing. I have called you
0:52.4	friends because I have told you everything I have heard from my father.
0:57.4	It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit that
1:03.5	will remain so that whatever you ask the father in my name, he may give you. Let us pray.
1:10.7	Almighty God, we thank you that on the night before he died,
1:14.6	Jesus said, I have called you friends. We ask you now to pour forth your Holy Spirit upon us,
1:21.9	that we may accept friendship with Jesus more and more deeply in our lives. We make this prayer in His name,
1:29.2	for He lives and reigns with you and the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, forever and ever.
1:33.9	Our Lady, Mother of Fairst Love. In the name of the Father and the Son, the Holy Spirit.
1:38.9	This talk is titled, The Saints Interpreting I Have Called you friends. John 15, 15.
1:46.1	And I want us to go back in this theme of friendship with God
1:50.4	to consider how the saints are precisely the friends of God.
1:55.4	The saints are friends of God.
1:57.9	Who are the friends of God?
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