We Shall Be Like Him: Contemplation as Deification | Fr. Isaac Morales, O.P.

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🗓️ 27 October 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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This talk was given on September 26, 2020 as part of the Thomistic Institute's East Coast Intellectual Retreat.

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About the Speaker:

Fr. Isaac Morales, O.P. entered the Dominican novitiate for the Province of St. Joseph in the summer of 2012. Before joining the order, Fr. Isaac received a BSE in civil engineering from Duke University, an MTS with a concentration in biblical studies from the University of Notre Dame, and a PhD in New Testament from Duke University. After completing his PhD, he taught in the department of theology at Marquette University for four years. During the academic year 2011/12, he was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the Ludwig Maximilians Universität in Munich. Fr. was ordained to the priesthood in May of 2018.

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0:00.0	I'd like to start with a passage from 2 Corinthians that we're going to be looking at fairly closely.
0:08.0	So this is from 2 Corinthians chapter 3, beginning in verse 12.
0:13.0	Since we have such a hope, we are very bold, not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face,
0:20.0	so that the Israelites might not gaze at the outcome of what was being brought to an end.
0:24.6	But their minds were hardened, for to this day when they read the old covenant, that same veil remains unlifted,
0:31.6	because only through Christ is it taken away.
0:34.6	Yes, to this day, whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their hearts.
0:40.3	But when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed.
0:44.3	Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
0:49.3	And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord,
0:53.3	are being transformed into the same image
0:56.3	from one degree of glory to another, for this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.
1:04.6	The title that Father Ephraim gave me for this talk, We Shall Be Like Him, draws on a verse that from the first letter of John
1:12.4	that's particularly dear to the Dominican theological tradition. In the third chapter of the letter,
1:19.0	St. John writes, Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared.
1:26.2	But we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.
1:33.4	This verse plays a central role in thought of St. Thomas Aquinas.
1:37.0	In fact, one of our brothers, I forget if it was Father Romano Cesare or Archbishop
1:40.7	Dinoa, but one of them said, suggested that the Sumo theologia could be described as an extended commentary on 1 John, chapter 3, verse 2.
1:50.9	This text encapsulates an important aspect of the Christian hope that goes by various names, divinization, theosis, or as in the title that Father I from assigned me, deification.
2:03.0	St. John suggests that there's a connection between vision and becoming like God.
2:09.0	Seeing God face to face will have a transformative effect upon us.
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