The Eucharist and Spiritual Communion | Fr. Dominic Langevin, O.P.

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🗓️ 5 August 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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This talk was given as part of the Thomistic Institute's Holy Week Retreat, April 9-12, 2020. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website: thomisticinstitute.org.

About the speaker:

Fr. Langevin entered the Order of Friars Preachers in 1998 and was ordained a priest in 2005. He was formerly assigned as a parochial vicar at St. Thomas Aquinas University Parish in Charlottesville, Virginia, serving the University of Virginia. While working on his doctorate at the University of Fribourg, Father Langevin was employed full-time there as the assistant to the Chair of Dogmatic Theology for Ecclesiology and the Sacraments. Father Langevin joined the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception in the fall of 2013. He teaches courses principally in sacramental theology and liturgiology. Since the summer of 2018, he is the editor of the journal The Thomist, for which he previously was book review editor. His book, From Passion to Paschal Mystery (Academic Press Fribourg, 2015), analyzes 20th-century Church teaching on the relationship between the sacraments (focusing on baptism and the Eucharist) and the events of Christ’s life. His primary research interest is general sacramental theology.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to our Timistic Institute Holy Week retreat.
0:05.0	Let us begin in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
0:12.0	We want to speak this afternoon about the Eucharist and spiritual communion.
0:18.0	If you're living under lockdown orders right now,
0:22.6	do you remember the last time, the last meeting, the last meal
0:27.6	that you had with your family or friends before the lockdown went into place?
0:32.6	Do you remember how that last day, the last two days perhaps,
0:36.6	went before you had to shelter
0:39.2	in place?
0:41.4	That last dinner with friends and family could have been planned long before the COVID-19 pandemic
0:46.2	reared into pandemonium near you.
0:50.2	But when you gathered for that last meal, it had special significance because you knew that you would not be seeing those friends, those family members, for quite a while.
1:04.1	Jesus knew full well that his last supper was exactly what we call it, the Last Supper.
1:12.5	Every gospel account testifies to this.
1:16.2	Jesus knew that he would be betrayed by one of his closest disciples.
1:20.7	And yet, he still arranged to share that last supper before lockdown,
1:26.6	before his betrayal, passion, death.
1:30.3	At that last supper, Jesus instituted the Eucharist, the Christian sacrament
1:37.3	that most powerfully represents Christ's passion and Christ's continuing sacramental real presence to us.
1:46.2	About 20 years after the Last Supper, around the year 56 or 57, St. Paul described to the
1:53.4	Corinthians the institution of the Eucharist. He wrote, I receive from the Lord what I also handed on to you.
2:02.9	But the Lord Jesus, on the night he was handed over, took bread,
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