What is Heaven Like? | Father Andrew Hofer

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🗓️ 25 July 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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This lecture was given on July 17th, 2023, at St. Peter's Church on Capitol Hill. For more information about upcoming events, please visit our website: https://thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events Speaker Bio: Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P., grew up as the youngest of ten children on a farm in Kansas and studied history, philosophy, and classics at Benedictine College. He then went to St Andrews, Scotland for a Master of Letters in medieval history. He entered the Order of Preachers as a son of the Province of St. Joseph and was ordained a priest in 2002. After finishing his S.T.L. and serving as an associate pastor for a brief time, he was sent to Kenya as a missionary for two years. He taught at the Tangaza College of The Catholic University of Eastern Africa and other institutions in Nairobi. He returned to the U.S. and completed a Ph.D. in Theology at the University of Notre Dame, with the primary area of history of Christianity, specializing in patristic theology with additional studies in medieval theology and the secondary area of systematic theology. His research appears in such journals as Vigiliae Christianae, Augustinianum, International Journal of Systematic Theology, New Blackfriars, Nova et Vetera, Pro Ecclesia, The Thomist, Communio, and Angelicum and in books published by Catholic University of America Press and Ignatius Press. He is the author of Christ in the Life and Teaching of Gregory of Nazianzus (Oxford Early Christian Studies), Oxford University Press, 2013, and the editor of Divinization: Becoming Icons of Christ through the Liturgy, Hillenbrand Books, 2015.

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0:00.0	Thank you very much. It's a great honor to be here at St. Peters on Capitol Hill. I'm so grateful for the
0:04.7	invitation from the Tmissic Institute, young professionals of Washington, D.C., and the young adults here of St.
0:11.5	Peters. We'll begin with a reading from Matthew 13 and a prayer.
0:16.8	The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure buried in a field, which a person finds and hides again,
0:23.4	and out of joy goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.
0:28.3	Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant searching for fine pearls.
0:32.6	When he finds a pearl of great price, he goes and sells all that he has and buys it. Let us pray.
0:40.7	Almighty God, we praise you for the kingdom of heaven. We ask you now to pour forth your
0:46.0	Holy Spirit upon us that we in this passing world may long more to be with you forever.
0:53.8	We make this prayer in the name of Jesus Christ,
0:55.8	your son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with you
0:58.0	in unity of the Holy Spirit, God, forever and ever.
1:01.9	Our Lady, Gate of Heaven.
1:03.8	Great God.
1:04.4	In the name of the Father and the Son of the Holy Spirit.
1:07.8	This evening's lecture is titled,
1:10.0	What is Heaven like? And we're going to be looking at that
1:14.6	question of what is heaven like? I'll give this talk and afterwards we'll have some time for Q&A.
1:21.7	The passage that I read to you from Matthew 13 has a comment from St. Thomas Aquinas where he quotes St. Gregory the Great.
1:30.3	He says, Gregory says that this is heavenly glory, because the good is naturally desirable,
1:38.4	and man always wants to exchange a lesser good for a greater good. Man's highest good is heavenly glory. When he has found this,
1:49.0	he should abandon all things for it. And now St. Thomas quotes the Psalm,
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