Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Brandon Vaat, the host and the senior publishing

director at Word on Fire. The Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life.

In the Mass, God is glorified and humans are sanctified. In his keynote address at

the recent Good News Conference, Abbott, Jeremy Driscoll walks us through the beauty and

richness of the Mass, in which we worship the Lord and are then sent out to proclaim

the Good News of Jesus' victory over sin and death. Abbott, Jeremy, is a Benedictine

monk. He was elected the 12th abbot of Mount Angel Abbey, and he is taught theology

at Mount Angel Seminary and at Sant'Anselmo in Rome. He continues to serve on various Vatican

commissions. He conducts conferences and retreats throughout the world and writes and publishes

widely. I think you'll really enjoy this talk by Abbott, Jeremy Driscoll. It is titled

The Source and Summit of Evangelization. So sit back, listen to Abbott, Jeremy Driscoll,

and enjoy.

Greetings to all of you, peace be with you. I'm honored to be a part of this conference,

very happy to be with you. I was going up in the elevator with two of you last night

that I hadn't met before, and he said, isn't this a wonderful conference? We all know each

other, even though we've never met. That's a Catholic thing, you're immediately with

friends when you're with other Catholics. I was happy to be asked to speak on the topic

of Eucharist as the source and summit of evangelization. You're probably familiar with this

term for the Eucharist source and summit of the whole life of the church. That's what

I want to unfold for you. When we say it's the source of evangelization, it would mean

our preaching Christ will come out of the celebration of the Eucharist. But what the

goal of preaching Christ is to bring people back to the Eucharist for the first time or

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