Who Am I? Becoming Someone in the Desert | Fr. Gabriel O'Donnell, O.P.

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🗓️ 31 May 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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This lecture was given on April, 2 2022 at St. Albert the Great Priory as part of the intellectual retreat "To Be Human in the Presence of God: St. Thomas Aquinas and Desert Spirituality." For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Fr. O’Donnell grew up in Syracuse, New York. After two years as a student at Providence College he entered the Order of Preachers in 1963 and was ordained a priest in 1970. In 1971 he earned an MA in Liturgical Studies from the University of Notre Dame and in 1980 earned an STD degree in the area of Liturgical Spiritual Theology from the Pontifical Faculty for Spirituality, the Teresianum, in Rome. He has previously taught at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception, St. Charles Seminary in Philadelphia, PA and the Angelicum in Rome. In addition to teaching he currently serves as a vice-postulator for the cause for sainthood of Father Michael J. McGivney, the founder of the Knights of Columbus and as vice-postulator for the cause of Rose Hawthorne, founder of the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne, NY. He previously survived as postulator for the cause of canonization of Father Paul of Graymoor, which has also been submitted to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints in Rome. With Robin Mass, Ph.D., Fr. O’Donnell is the author of Spiritual Traditions for the Contemporary Church and has contributed to A Love That Never Ends: A Key to the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

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0:00.0	This talk is brought to you by the Thomistic Institute.
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0:08.0	In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
0:15.0	Directly beseech you, Lord, all of our actions, so that with wisdom and right judgment,
0:24.6	all things may begin in you and in you come to perfection through Christ our Lord.
0:31.6	Our Lady, seat of wisdom.
0:34.6	Pray Christ.
0:35.6	In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
0:40.2	Good morning.
0:42.0	Now there is no competition, but Sister had two books that she showed.
0:47.0	So I had to bring in two books, of course.
0:50.1	And though I will leave them here for you to look at their kind of they're more mangled.
0:54.5	They're not as untouched because sister has brand new ones that she's showing you.
0:59.0	The first is a very important document.
1:02.2	The saying to the Desert Fathers that are in the two volumes here, of course, are a very precious document.
1:09.8	They tell you what the fathers of the desert
1:12.6	thought about the spiritual life, the monastic life, asceticism. But they don't tell you a whole
1:19.6	lot about what the monastic life was like. There is another document, of course, as the
1:26.6	fourth century moves into the fifth century, other documents begin to appear about monasticism.
1:32.5	Sister referenced last night, Athanasius, is life of Antony, of the desert.
1:37.1	But there is at the end of the fourth century another text called the lives of the desert fathers,
1:42.5	which tells you in anecdotal form what life in the monasteries was like.
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