The Wedding Feast of the Lamb: The Meaning of the Mass | Prof. Paul Gondreau

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🗓️ 12 May 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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This lecture was given at Columbia University on February 12, 2020.

About the speaker: Prof. Gondreau earned his doctorate in sacred theology from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, writing under the renowned Thomist scholar Rev. JeanPierre Torrell, O.P. He is professor of theology at Providence College in Rhode Island, where he teaches/has taught courses on marriage, Christology, the theology of Thomas Aquinas, the Church, the Eucharist, the Sacraments, and the Catholic thought of J.R.R. Tolkien. He has a published manuscript on Christ's human passions in the theology of St. Thomas Aquinas and has published numerous essays in the area of Thomistic Christology, Thomistic anthropology, a Thomistic account of human sexuality, and a Thomistic theology of disability. He is associate editor of the theological journal Nova et Vetera, and has served as a consultant to the USCCB's committee on marriage and family.

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0:00.0	Some opening remarks, in a nutshell, this is what the mass means.
0:06.0	It's the perfect form of human worship.
0:10.0	Because it combines praise, Thanksgiving, Eucharist is Greek for Thanksgiving,
0:17.0	fellowship, atonement, and especially sacrifice.
0:22.6	Human beings, we are wired for sacrifice, for worship.
0:28.6	Which is why if you don't worship God, you'll worship some cheap counterfeit in this step,
0:34.6	whether it's a political party, the state, and ideology, sports, what have you.
0:42.6	We will worship. We're wired for it. We're especially wired to good worship in the form of sacrifice.
0:49.8	Almost every form of pagan worship known to man involves sacrifice.
0:55.0	Oftentimes violent and cruel human sacrifice.
1:00.0	Mollach in the case of the Old Testament, think of the Aztecs.
1:05.0	In the Mass, yes, there is a human sacrifice, but it's offered in a non-violent manner, and it's a self-offering
1:15.3	that is expressive of supreme love. St. Thomas Aquinas teaches that the mass is expressive of
1:23.6	God's superabundant, merciful love. At each Mass, we behold and become one with,
1:33.3	communion, we behold and become one with
1:38.3	God's act of superabundant, merciful love.
1:43.3	On the cross and in the Mass,
1:46.8	Jesus is both priest,
1:48.4	the one who offers the sacrifice,
1:50.5	and victim,
1:51.7	the one who is sacrificed.
1:54.0	He offers himself
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