On the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist | Fr. Dominic Langevin, O.P.

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🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Fr. Dominic Langevin explores the Catholic doctrine of the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist, explaining transubstantiation, its scriptural basis, historical development, and the significance for Christian life.

This lecture was given on October 24th, 2024, at Clemson University.

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About the Speaker:

Fr. Dominic Langevin, O.P., is dean and assistant professor of dogmatic theology at the Dominican House of Studies, where he teaches courses principally in sacramental theology and liturgiology. He is the secretary/treasurer of the Academy of Catholic Theology. He did his undergraduate degree at Yale University. He entered the Dominican Order in 1998 and was ordained a priest in 2005. He earned his doctorate from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He is the author of the book From Passion to Paschal Mystery and was editor of the journal The Thomist from 2018 to 2021.

Keywords: Catholic Doctrine, Eucharistic Theology, Real Presence, Scriptural Basis for Eucharist, 1 Corinthians, Bread of Life Discourse, Shekinah, Transubstantiation

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tomistic Institute podcast.
0:06.2	Our mission is to promote the Catholic intellectual tradition in the university, the church, and the wider public square.
0:12.7	The lectures on this podcast are organized by university students at Temistic Institute chapters around the world.
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0:22.5	to mystic institute.org.
0:26.0	As an opening working definition,
0:28.4	the real presence, the Eucharist,
0:31.1	is the affirmation that the Catholic sacrament of the Eucharist
0:34.9	is a physical, authentically human presence to us here and now of Jesus Christ.
0:42.4	This presence is mediated to us by what looks, tastes, and smells, and acts externally like bread and wine.
0:50.4	Catholics affirm that at the beginning of the liturgy called the Mass,
0:55.0	bread and wine are truly present, but then by the end, through the consecratory blessing of a priest,
1:02.0	what was bread and wine no longer exists. Instead, there is physically present Jesus Christ
1:08.0	under the appearance of what was bread and wine.
1:12.8	What look and act like bread and wine after the consecration are not merely spiritual signs of Jesus,
1:19.5	it's not like a postcard from Jesus.
1:22.6	It's not like a postcard that a friend of yours would send to you from across the country. Rather, the Eucharist
1:29.5	is a true physical, substantial presence. As for the second subject of our talk, transubstantiation
1:38.5	is the affirmation that how the Eucharistic real presence comes about is through a change
1:44.1	of substance,
1:45.1	a change from the substance of bread to the substance of the body of Christ,
1:50.2	and a change from the substance of wine to the substance of the blood of Christ.
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