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

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🗓️ 9 January 2023

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The handout for this lecture can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/mwpshtnw This lecture was given on November 10, 2022, at Fordham University. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Fr. Dominic Langevin is vice president and dean of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception at the Dominican House of Studies, where he also serves as an assistant professor of systematic theology, specializing in sacramental theology. He did his undergraduate studies at Yale University and his doctoral studies at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He was formerly assigned as a parochial vicar at St. Thomas Aquinas University Parish in Charlottesville, Virginia, serving the University of Virginia.

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0:00.0	This talk is brought to you by the Tamistic Institute.
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0:08.0	As David mentioned, we're coming out of COVID times.
0:16.0	And if anything has taught us about the interpersonal nature of the human person, it's COVID times.
0:24.6	And unfortunately, that has often been learned through a negative sort of experience.
0:29.6	Already in 2020, just months into the crisis, scientists were saying that the pandemic was having negative psychological and social effects on children because of isolation, mask wearing, etc.
0:43.4	Now, whether one thinks that lockdowns and school closings and masks for children were necessary to prevent a greater risk to the physical lives of children and or adults,
1:03.0	the scientific evidence is very strong that isolation, mask wearing, and so on have negative effects on children's psychology and growth. In March of this year, two years after the lockdown started, the World Health Organization released a study that stated,
1:10.0	quote, that in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic,
1:13.6	global prevalence of anxiety and depression increased by a massive 25%.
1:18.7	The accompanying press release said, quote, one major explanation for the increase is the unprecedented stress
1:27.4	caused by the social isolation resulting from the pandemic.
1:32.3	That's not a surprising correlation for us these days. We're all hearing on university campuses and school institutions about a rise in mental health issues.
1:45.0	That report of this year from World Health Organization reporting just on the first year's data of the pandemic
1:52.0	noted, quote, that the pandemic has affected the mental health of young people and women in particular.
1:59.0	And when they said young people, they meant those age 20 to 24, which is the age,
2:04.4	most especially of our university students.
2:08.7	In order to that these young persons are, quote,
2:11.7	disproportionately at risk of suicidal and self-harming
2:15.2	behaviors. What do we take from all this?
2:19.3	It certainly underscores that we human beings are by nature communal beings.
2:25.3	And on the spiritual plane, by our creation by God, we have an openness and an inclination to communion not just with other human beings, but also with God.
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