Veneration of the Eucharist | Father Uwe Michael Lang

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🗓️ 27 September 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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This lecture was given on September 18th, 2023, at the Thomistic Institute at the Dominican House of Studies. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website: thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events Speaker Bio: Fr. Uwe Michael Lang, a native of Nuremberg, Germany, is a priest of the Oratory of St Philip Neri in London. He holds a doctorate in theology from the University of Oxford, and teaches Church History at Mater Ecclesiae College, St Mary’s University, Twickenham, and Allen Hall Seminary, London. He is an associate staff member at the Maryvale Institute, Birmingham, and on the Visiting Faculty of the Liturgical Institute in Mundelein, IL. He is a Corresponding Member of the Neuer Schülerkreis Joseph Ratzinger / Papst Benedikt XVI, a Member of the Council of the Henry Bradshaw Society, a Board Member of the Society for Catholic Liturgy, and the Editor of Antiphon: A Journal for Liturgical Renewal.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tomistic Institute podcast.
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0:28.4	Thank you very much for this kind introduction. Let's start with a brief prayer. In the name of the
0:33.0	Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of thy faithful,
0:38.9	and kindle them the fire of thy love.
0:41.0	Send forth thy spirit, and they shall be created.
0:45.9	Let us pray.
0:47.1	O God who taught the hearts of the faithful through the light of the Holy Spirit,
0:50.8	grant us in the same spirit to be truly wise
0:53.1	and ever rejoice in his consolation
0:54.9	through Christ our Lord. Holy Mary, seat of wisdom, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Philip Nairie,
1:04.0	the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
1:10.5	So in this lecture I will first sketch the development of the veneration and reservation
1:18.6	of the Eucharist in the church has long history.
1:21.6	This overview will offer theological insights into the worship that is due to Christ present in the sacrament of the altar,
1:30.4	and the importance of Eucharistic adoration for the spiritual life of the faithful
1:35.1	and for the good of the whole church today.
1:38.9	First veneration of the Eucharist in the patristic period.
1:43.0	Clearly, Eucharistic adoration in the modern sense was not known in the first Christian millennium, but it has its roots in early Christian worship and in the teachings of the Church Fathers. In the writings of the Patristic period, we find a strong sense of adoration before the Lord and at the same time of reverence for the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist, which is expressed above all in the liturgical act of receiving Holy Communion.
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