The Profundity & Personalism of the Eucharist | Sr. Albert Marie Surmanski, O.P.

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🗓️ 22 March 2024

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This lecture was given on October 10th, 2023, at the University of Dallas.

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About the Speaker:

Sr. Albert Marie Surmanski, O.P. is a member of the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist. She is an Associate Professor of Theology at the University of St. Thomas in Houston where she also teaches at St. Mary's Seminary. Her main area of research is medieval sacramental theology with a focus on Albert the Great and Aquinas. She has published a translation of Albert the Great's work On the Body of the Lord in the CUA Fathers of the Church Medieval Continuation series as well as a translation of Aquinas's Commentary on the Psalms for the Aquinas Institute. She has published articles in various journals including Logos, Antiphon, Nova et Vetera and Franciscan Studies.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tomistic Institute podcast.
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0:28.9	Great, so I'm so pleased to be here to talk with you tonight
0:32.3	about the very rich Eucharistic theology of St. Albert the Great.
0:36.0	So I actually have a relic of St. Albert who I brought
0:40.5	with me. I visited your relic chapel and I didn't see St. Albert there, although I saw many of my other
0:46.6	Dominican brothers and sisters, so we'll just have St. Albert's relic here during the talk. But I'd
0:53.0	like to start with a prayer, and this prayer is based
0:55.2	on the Dominican preface for the feast of St. Albert the Great. So, name of the Father and of the
1:00.8	Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. O God, in your providence, you chose St. Albert as a friend of the
1:07.8	eternal wisdom to search for you, the creator of the universe in every circumstance
1:12.8	of life. He found you to be the supreme good, the most wonderful of all that exists. Just as he
1:20.1	reconciled human knowledge with divine faith in the constant search for truth, so he promoted harmony among
1:26.7	people, seeking peace with all his might.
1:30.0	He adored the Holy Eucharist with fervor and honored with filial love, the mother of your
1:35.5	incarnate son, filling his life with devotion. As we ponder his thought this evening,
1:41.9	Lord, fill us also with wisdom, peace, and devotion. Amen.
1:49.2	So, as you may know, St. Albert was a Dominican and scholastic theologian who lived in the
1:55.1	1200s. He entered the Dominican order in 1223, so actually after the death of St. Dominic.
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