Corpus Christi and the Mystery of the Eucharist I Fr. Innocent Smith,O.P.

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🗓️ 19 June 2025

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This lecture was given on October 25th, 2024, at Dominican House of Studies.

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Fr. Innocent Smith, O.P. entered the Order of Preachers in 2008 and was ordained to the priesthood in 2015. From 2015 to 2018, Fr. Innocent served as parochial vicar at the Parish of St. Vincent Ferrer and St. Catherine of Siena in New York City. From 2018 to 2021, he lived in Munich while completing a doctorate in liturgical studies at the University of Regensburg. From 2021 to 2023, Fr. Innocent served as Assistant Professor of Homiletics at St. Mary’s Seminary & University in Baltimore. In 2023, he joined the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception.

Fr. Innocent’s teaching and research interests include liturgy, homiletics, sacramental theology, ecclesiology, and sacred music. His S.T.L. thesis, “In Collecta Dicitur: The Oration as a Theological Authority for Thomas Aquinas,” explored the importance of the liturgy as a source for scholastic theology. His monograph Bible Missals and the Medieval Dominican Liturgy focuses on medieval manuscripts of the Bible that also contain liturgical texts for the celebration of Mass.

This project/publication was made possible through the support of Grant 63391 from the John Templeton Foundation. The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the John Templeton Foundation.

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0:48.1	to mystic institute.org. So my talk today is titled Corpus Christi and the Mystery of the Eucharist. So I've opened up this with a lovely picture. It's a woodcut from the 1940s of St. Juliana of Lijes. St. Juliana is a figure who's not very well known in the church today, but she plays a really important role in the development of the
1:12.7	Feast of Corpus Christi. Often people, when they tell her story, just focus on the new things
1:18.1	she brings to the church, her innovation, what she wants to institute with Corpus Christi.
1:23.9	What I'd like to do in today's talk is to really step back and look at the way the liturgy forms
1:29.3	Juliana, and in turn how that helps her be an instrument of Christ in developing the liturgy.
1:36.3	And then tomorrow, when we delve into the poetry of Aquinas more specifically, we'll be looking at a parallel reality,
1:42.3	that Thomas is first formed by the liturgy of the church
1:45.4	and then contributes to its development. So the Feast of Corpus Christi, which Giulianas will
1:51.2	learn tonight, plays a decisive role in the development of, provides, as it were, the canvas for Aquinas'
1:56.9	poetry. So I'd like to start off by reflecting more broadly on what is liturgy really all about.
2:05.9	So I'd like to start with the idea of tradition as well as commands.
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