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#12540 When We Receive the Eucharist, Are We Receiving Jesus Completely? - Karlo Broussard

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.82.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

“When we receive the Eucharist, are we receiving the whole of Jesus or just part of his flesh?” This question opens a discussion on the nature of the Eucharist, alongside inquiries about the Catholic perspective on speaking in tongues, the role of Mary in devotional prayer, and the process of canonization in the Church.

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Questions Covered:

  • 07:44 – When we receive the Eucharist, are we receiving the whole of Jesus or just part of his flesh?
  • 19:59 – What is the proper Catholic view of speaking in tongues, St. Paul and Augustine seem to differ in their teaching?
  • 29:25 – Why in Catholic devotional prayer is Mary petitioned as the one that will crush the head of the serpent?
  • 38:49 – How does the Church determine the time to canonize
  • 47:10 – How does the Thomistic position of the treaties of Faith relate to the Thomistic view of the Magisterium?

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Holy smokes.

0:36.2

It's the last hour of Friday.

0:39.9

Thanks for being here with us.

0:41.2

You know, I say it's the last hour of Friday, but I always, particularly on Saturdays, I'm cognizant that because we used to have James that would call a lot from the Philippines on Fridays.

0:51.8

Because on Saturday morning, you can listen, whereas on the other days of the week, if you're over in the Philippines or a lot of people in Australia or they can't because they're at work or they're commuting or whatever.

1:04.1

So I am cognizant on Fridays that we're also talking to the Saturday morning crowd and welcome to the Saturday morning crowd.

1:10.1

I hope we're having a good day. I won't know for a few hours how my Saturday morning's going to go, but you know now. I don't even, now I'm just talking around in circles. I don't even know how, how did I start this conversation? I started a conversation with myself and I can't finish it. That's not good when you get sold. You start a conversation with

1:27.8

yourself and you can't finish it. So I'm going to, Carla Boussard, our guest, could you please

1:33.0

help me out here, Carlo? How are you? Well, yeah, I'm doing well, man. He's just thinking about

1:37.8

reflecting on what you're going to do on Saturday morning. Are you like one of those Saturday

1:41.4

morning guys who wakes up and opens the curtains and like, yeah, and Saturday morning with your coffee and relaxing. I don't know. You're relaxing right now with that hoodie sweater there. It's talking about casual earlier. Don't get me in trouble. John Brosell is right on the other side of the camera, man. Don't get me in trouble. I thought I was getting away with something here. It looks like you are ready and prepped, man. That's the truth. I am prepped. I have my bag packed right over there. I'm going to be in the car. The minute we are done, yes, I got that weekend feeling already. I got that weekend feeling. Awesome. Good, good, good. All right, enough rambling for me, Dr. Carlybussard, our guest, apologist, author, author

2:22.4

of wonderful books. The ones we'll probably give away a lot this hour are meeting the Protestant

2:27.8

challenge and then meeting the Protestant response. Beautiful dialogue books, not books of trying

2:32.8

to own anybody or, you know, one-up anybody,

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but dialogue books of taking quite seriously the intellectual positions of our Protestant

2:43.0

brothers and sisters and giving the Catholic side of that story and making it clear.

3:07.6

And so we'll probably give a Lowe's a lot. He's also got a book on the saints in heaven. The Saints pray for you, a book on baptism. Baptism now saves you, a bunch of other books. You can find them all at shop.catholic.com. You can also get Carlo to come out and speak where you are. I'm going to go to the phones momentarily, but first, I'm told that you're speaking like crazy coming up, that you're out on the road a lot.

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Yeah, I will be, man. Thanks be to God. Next weekend, I'll be heading to Bloomington, Indiana,

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