The Eucharist and the Theological Virtues | Fr. Dominic Langevin, O.P.
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🗓️ 7 September 2022
⏱️ 80 minutes
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This lecture was given on April 28, 2022 at Texas State University. For information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Fr. Dominic Langevin is an assistant professor of systematic theology at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC, and editor in chief of the journal The Thomist. He specializes 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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| 0:11.6 | Our task tonight is to connect one sacrament with three virtues. |
| 0:17.9 | We should ask why we would want to do that. |
| 0:19.8 | And very simply, it's because within those |
| 0:23.5 | virtues and with that sacrament, God draws us near to himself and we draw near to God. It's kind of a both-end |
| 0:35.5 | relation of God draws us, draws himself toward us, and draws us to |
| 0:40.1 | himself. And we cooperate in that. So our overall theme tonight literally is God. We may be talking about |
| 0:48.3 | the Eucharist, we may be talking about the theological virtues, but the happy middle in all of that, the central point is God. It's the |
| 0:57.6 | divine life. It's how the Eucharist is the closest that God comes to us on earth at this time, |
| 1:04.6 | and it's the closest that we come to God at this time. In the Eucharist, we have Christ's substantial presence, which compared to the |
| 1:13.2 | other six sacraments of the Eucharist is the most special because in the other sacraments, |
| 1:18.5 | Christ gives us his power. He works on us, but in the Eucharist, he doesn't just work on us. |
| 1:25.0 | He is also substantially present to us. It's an important difference there. |
| 1:29.3 | It's a difference literally that we've been learning over COVID times |
| 1:34.3 | between being physically present, fully present to a person, in-person presence, |
| 1:41.3 | as compared to, let's say, for instance, no offense to the good people on Zoom, |
| 1:46.0 | Zoom presence. |
| 1:48.0 | Or sending a postcard, for instance. |
| 1:50.5 | You can say, I love you to your spouse, to your boyfriend, your girlfriend, |
| 1:55.7 | your girlfriend in person, and it means something more in person than if you send a postcard or if you send a text message or an email. |
| 2:05.6 | God is also the focus of not just the Eucharist, but the theological virtues. |
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