Thomas Aquinas and Catherine of Siena on Conformity to Christ in the Eucharist | Fr. Reginald Lynch

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🗓️ 29 March 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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This talk was given on January 7, 2022 at the Dominican House of Studies as part of "The Eucharist," an intellectual retreat for the Thomistic Institute’s chapters at Auburn University and North Carolina State University. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Born in New Hampshire, Father Reginald Lynch, O.P. entered the Dominican Province of St. Joseph in 2007, and was ordained a priest in 2013. After ordination, he served at St. Patrick Parish in Columbus, Ohio and taught at the Pontifical College Josephinum, before going on to complete a PhD in theology at the University of Notre Dame, with a major concentration in medieval theology and minor concentrations in patristics and philosophical theology. He has written on a variety of topics in sacramental, systematic and historical theology in journals like The Thomist and Nova et Vetera. His book, The Cleansing of the Heart: The Sacraments as Instrumental Causes in the Thomistic Tradition (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2017) received the Charles Cardinal Journet Prize in 2018. Currently, he is working on a book on the reception of Aquinas’ Eucharistic theology in the early modern period.

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0:00.0	This talk is brought to you by the Thomistic Institute. For more talks like this, visit us at
0:05.9	tamistic institute.org. So I'm going to be talking about two Dominican saints, St. Thomas
0:14.7	Aquinas and St. Catherine of Siena. Their spirituality and theology of Eucharistic devotion and praxis.
0:24.3	That is the way in which the Eucharist enabled them to conform their lives and their
0:28.8	hearts to Jesus Christ.
0:30.7	So we'll be talking about the human person and how we might speak about the human person
0:36.0	theologically according to both of those saints.
0:39.2	We'll also be talking about the sacrament of the Eucharist proper,
0:42.2	that is what it is, and how it might relate to the life of sanctity.
0:45.7	And we'll also talk about what it means to act,
0:48.7	that is to act morally as a human person,
0:51.8	not in a moralistic sense so much as a way which leads towards divinization,
0:57.6	a way which leads towards divine life, and how the sacramental economy in a particular way the Eucharist
1:03.3	leads us into a deeper mode of participation, we might say, with the Trinity itself.
1:10.6	Okay, so there are three basic parts to this talk. So I've
1:14.2	been told I have about 30 minutes or so. So I'll plan to conclude about quarter of and then take some
1:19.7	questions. That sounds good. So the first part, I want to talk about the idea of image and likeness
1:25.7	and how Catherine of Sienna and Aquinas, how the two of them use image and likeness to talk about the idea of image and likeness and how Catherine of Sienna and Aquinas,
1:28.3	how the two of them use image and likeness to talk about the human person in relation to God.
1:33.3	So that's part one.
1:35.3	The second part will be Aquinas on the Eucharist proper.
1:38.3	So we'll explore not all of Aquinas' Eucharistic theology, with some pieces of it that are directly relevant to
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