RECORDING – Fáinche Ryan: The Eucharist – what do we believe? Oct 31st, 2024

Nov 9, 2024 | 2 comments

The Eucharist – What do we believe … and what difference does it make?

Fáinche Ryan

 Recording of  Zoom Presentation –  Oct 31st, 2024. (Introduced by Anthony Neville, ACI Chair)

 

 

 

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View Presentation Slides here

View St Augustine’s Sermon on the Eucharist  (272, Early Church Texts) as referenced by Fáichne during her presentation here

The Second Vatican Council reminded us that the Eucharist is ‘the source and summit of the Christian life‘ (Lumen Gentium 11), while Augustine, in a homily on the Eucharist advised “It is your own mystery that you are receiving! You are saying “Amen” to what you are … ” This presentation will seek to explain something of the mystery of this gift of the Eucharist, of what it means for a baptised person to participate in the Eucharist, and also the impact of what it means to say that the Church makes the Eucharist while at once the Eucharist makes the Church. The presentation aims to be both instructive and challenging and to go some way toward addressing the many questions put to me over the years about this mystery we receive.

Fáinche Ryan is Associate Professor of Theology at the Loyola Institute, Trinity College Dublin and is the current Vice-President of the European Society of Catholic Theology. She completed her doctorate at the Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in Rome. Her research, which focused on the theology of Thomas Aquinas was subsequently published as Formation in Holiness. Thomas Aquinas on Sacra doctrina (Peeters, Louvain). In her teaching and research Fáinche studies Eucharistic theology, the important concept of the ‘sensus fidei fidelium’, and women and their role in theology. Since joining the staff at Trinity she has developed a module on the theology of the early Irish Church, in particular of the Book of Kells. Fáinche has worked on parish missions, and regularly gives input to parish and diocesan groups, often presenting work from her publication with Columba Press, The Eucharist: What do we believe?

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2 Comments

  1. Barbara Goff
    Barbara Goff on 31/10/2024 at 10:14 pm

    This was an inspiring and challenging presentation. I loved every moment of it and didn’t want it to finish! Fainche is a very gifted lecturer and has given me much food for thought. Thank you.

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  2. janice flahiff
    janice flahiff on 07/11/2024 at 10:26 am

    My deep thanks to all involved with this presentation. It clarified much of what I believed and gave new insights.

    Watched this here in the USA at 3pm while I was making home made treats for the trick-or-treaters. It sure does not pay to multi task. I know I missed a lot.

    So I will be looking forward to the recording.
    Will be sharing the link with my grade school FB group, as well as my high school FB group. Both Catholic.

    I grew up in the 60’s and early 70’s. While we were given good basics on the Eucharist, we never had a portion of the year devoted on the theology of the Eucharist (age appropriate of course!)

    Again, many, many thanks.

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