Who Are the Monks? | Sr. Maria Kiely, OSB

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🗓️ 30 May 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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This lecture was given on April 1, 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: Sr. Maria M. Kiely, O.S.B. is a Benedictine of the Congregation of Solesmes. She specializes in Christian thought and Scriptural exegesis in the early Church and in the rise and development of monasticism. She has studied in depth the life and writings of Ambrose of Milan and his use and adaptation of Origen and Plotinus. Her current research focuses on the development of the tradition of hymnody in the early Church through the Middle Ages. She is currently participating in a major commentary on the hymns of the Liturgy of the Hours. In addition to her work at Catholic University, she teaches Greek and Latin at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception, Dominican House of Studies. She is also on the Editorial Committee for the International Commission on English in the Liturgy (ICEL).

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0:12.9	Jesus said, again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls,
0:23.3	who on finding one pearl of great Christ went and sold all that he had and bought it. So this is Christ speaking in parables. He's using the
0:31.1	image of the pearl. And it's very helpful to speak in terms of analogy and metaphor.
0:41.2	And the reason for this is twofold.
0:45.6	There are, as St. Augustine says,
0:47.9	there are some things that just touch us more deeply if they are expressed in an image
0:53.8	than they would touch us if they are expressed in an image than they are, then they would touch us if they were expressed in plain speech.
0:59.0	And there are also other realities which we can only understand through metaphors.
1:05.0	And some of these are very central to our Christian life.
1:10.0	The church is the body of Christ.
1:12.4	Of course, it's not the physical body of Christ,
1:14.7	but Christ does have a human body.
1:17.1	He's the head of the church.
1:18.9	And so these are the great metaphors that explain
1:23.7	God's merciful intervention in our lives
1:27.2	in ways that we would stammer if we were trying to explain it in plain speech.
1:33.3	Another image is the bride of Christ.
1:36.3	So this is one reason why Christ spoke to us in parables.
1:40.3	And here's the parable of the Pearl of Great Price.
1:43.3	Now the interesting thing here is that he says
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