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The Thomistic Institute

The Wedding Supper of the Lamb I Prof. Paul Gondreau

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🗓️ 20 June 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

This lecture was given on April 25th, 2025, at University of North Texas.


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About the Speaker:


Paul Gondreau is professor of theology at Providence College, where he has taught for 26 years. He received his doctorate in theology from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, doing his dissertation on Christ's full humanity (Christ's human passions/emotions) under the renowned Thomist scholar Jean-Pierre Torrell. He specializes in the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas and has published widely in the areas of Christology (focusing on Christ’s full humanity and his maleness), Christian anthropology, the moral meaning and purpose of human sexuality and sexual difference, the biblical vision of Aquinas' theology, the theology of disability, the sacrament of the Eucharist and the priesthood, and the Catholic vision of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings

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Some opening remarks, in a nutshell, what the mass means is that, let's begin with the fact that it's the perfect form of human worship of God.

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Because it combines praise, Thanksgiving, Eucharist means Thanksgiving,

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fellowship, atonement, and especially sacrifice. Human beings are wired to give worship, which is why

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if we don't worship God, we'll end up worshipipping a cheap counterfeit in his stead, such as a political

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party or the state or an ideology or the sports, some sport, etc.

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And we're especially wired to give worship in the form of sacrifice. Almost every form of pagan worship

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known to man involves sacrifice and oftentimes

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violent and cruel human sacrifice with the shedding of blood involved. In the mass, yes, there is a human

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sacrifice, but it's offered in a nonviolent, unbloody manner, and it's a self-offering

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