'You Did it for Me': Saint Augustine on Matthew 25:31-46 | Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P.

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🗓️ 26 August 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Father Andrew Hofer examines Saint Augustine's profound connection to Matthew 25:31-46, particularly the phrase "You did it for me," which Augustine considered one of the most moving passages in Scripture. The lecture explores how Augustine applied this passage to interpret the Psalms and understand Christ's hidden presence in various forms, including the incarnation, the Church, the Eucharist, Scripture, and especially the poor. Hofer emphasizes how Augustine's interpretation of this passage shaped his views on love, prayer, and Christian charity, encouraging believers to see Christ in the poor and act accordingly.

This lecture was given on April 13th, 2024, 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 Tomistic Institute podcast.
0:06.8	Our mission is to promote the Catholic intellectual tradition in the university, the church, and the wider public square.
0:13.1	The lectures on this podcast are organized by university students at Temistic Institute chapters around the world.
0:19.1	To learn more and to attend these events, visit us
0:22.2	at to mystic institute.org. We'll begin with a reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew.
0:28.3	This is Matthew 2531 to 46. When the son of man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him,
0:48.4	he will sit upon his glorious throne, and all the nations will be assembled before him, and he will separate them one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
0:53.6	He will place the sheep on his right, and the goats on his left. Then the king will say to those on his right and the goats on his left.
0:56.7	Then the king will say to those on his right,
1:04.8	Come, you who are blessed by my father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
1:08.6	For I was hungry and you gave me food.
1:15.0	I was thirsty and you gave me drink. A stranger and you gave me food. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. A stranger, and you welcomed me.
1:21.6	Naked, and you clothed me. Ill, and you cared for me. In prison, and you visited me.
1:28.3	Then the righteous will answer him and say, Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink?
1:30.3	When did we see you as stranger and welcome you or naked and clothed you?
1:34.3	When did we see you ill or in prison and visit you?
1:37.3	And the king will say to them in reply.
1:40.3	Amen, I say to you,
1:42.3	Whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me.
1:48.0	Then he will say to those on his left, depart from me, you accursed into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
1:57.7	For I was hungry, and you gave me no food.
2:01.8	I was thirsty, and you gave me no food. I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink.
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