- start_time:
    secs: 20
    nanos: 139000000
  end_time:
    secs: 20
    nanos: 459000000
  text: Hello.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 20
    nanos: 459000000
  end_time:
    secs: 21
    nanos: 819000000
  text: My name is Larry Feingold.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 21
    nanos: 819000000
  end_time:
    secs: 26
    nanos: 59000000
  text: I teach, um, theology at Kenrick-Linden Seminary in St. Louis.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 26
    nanos: 59000000
  end_time:
    secs: 29
    nanos: 199000000
  text: I'm a convert to the faith, together with my wife.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 29
    nanos: 199000000
  end_time:
    secs: 30
    nanos: 779000000
  text: I used to be a Jewish atheist.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 30
    nanos: 779000000
  end_time:
    secs: 31
    nanos: 179000000
  text: I was...
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 31
    nanos: 179000000
  end_time:
    secs: 32
    nanos: 20000000
  text: That's how I was raised.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 32
    nanos: 20000000
  end_time:
    secs: 33
    nanos: 399000000
  text: And, and we were...
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 33
    nanos: 399000000
  end_time:
    secs: 38
    nanos: 879000000
  text: My wife and I were baptized with our baby, who was three months, um, in the Anglican Church.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 38
    nanos: 879000000
  end_time:
    secs: 44
    nanos: 120000000
  text: And about six months later, we, um, entered the Catholic Church in 1989.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 44
    nanos: 120000000
  end_time:
    secs: 54
    nanos: 179000000
  text: And I have the privilege of teaching this course on the Eucharist, and the title is the Eucharist Mystery of Presence, Sacrifice, and Communion.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 54
    nanos: 179000000
  end_time:
    secs: 62
    nanos: 259000000
  text: And, and the first episode is the obvious question, or ought to be the obvious question, why?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 62
    nanos: 259000000
  end_time:
    secs: 65
    nanos: 299000000
  text: Why did Jesus institute the Eucharist?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 65
    nanos: 299000000
  end_time:
    secs: 72
    nanos: 599000000
  text: And we're going to answer, um, with three fundamental reasons, presence, sacrifice, and communion.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 72
    nanos: 599000000
  end_time:
    secs: 76
    nanos: 979000000
  text: So starting with a prayer, you know, the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit, amen.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 76
    nanos: 979000000
  end_time:
    secs: 87
    nanos: 419000000
  text: Lord, we ask you to send your spirit to our hearts to help us to penetrate into the great mystery of the Eucharist, through Christ our Lord.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 87
    nanos: 419000000
  end_time:
    secs: 88
    nanos: 699000000
  text: Amen.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 88
    nanos: 699000000
  end_time:
    secs: 92
    nanos: 19000000
  text: Saints Peter and Paul, pray for us.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 92
    nanos: 19000000
  end_time:
    secs: 102
    nanos: 39000000
  text: So, the goal of this series is to learn about the Eucharist, but more importantly, to have awe before its mystery.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 102
    nanos: 39000000
  end_time:
    secs: 109
    nanos: 59000000
  text: And, uh, that's especially true in, well, for all of these episodes.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 109
    nanos: 59000000
  end_time:
    secs: 120
    nanos: 399000000
  text: Um, so to get a sense of the centrality of the Eucharist, John Paul II, um, put it very well in his encyclical on the Eucharist, Ecclesia de Eucharistia.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 120
    nanos: 399000000
  end_time:
    secs: 135
    nanos: 779000000
  text: He said, "The Eucharist is Christ's saving presence in the community of the faithful, and its spiritual food is the most precious possession which the church can have in her journey through history." Right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 135
    nanos: 779000000
  end_time:
    secs: 136
    nanos: 799000000
  text: That's a strong statement.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 136
    nanos: 799000000
  end_time:
    secs: 140
    nanos: 279000000
  text: Um, when we, we can't put limits...
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 140
    nanos: 279000000
  end_time:
    secs: 141
    nanos: 379000000
  text: God is omnipotent, right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 141
    nanos: 379000000
  end_time:
    secs: 142
    nanos: 659000000
  text: We can't put limits on God.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 142
    nanos: 659000000
  end_time:
    secs: 149
    nanos: 519000000
  text: But, um, to say that he can't do anything better than the Eucharist, um, as a gift to the church, is true.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 149
    nanos: 519000000
  end_time:
    secs: 163
    nanos: 339000000
  text: He could make more beautiful, um, bodies than we have, a more beautiful world, but he couldn't give a better gift than the Eucharist to his church, um, because it's the gift of himself to his bride.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 163
    nanos: 339000000
  end_time:
    secs: 169
    nanos: 219000000
  text: And so to understand the Eucharist, we have to understand the logic of spousal love.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 169
    nanos: 219000000
  end_time:
    secs: 171
    nanos: 319000000
  text: Christ is the bridegroom.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 171
    nanos: 319000000
  end_time:
    secs: 182
    nanos: 939000000
  text: There's a famous saying of the Second Vatican Council, Lumen Gentium 11, which speaks of the Eucharist as the source and summit of the whole Christian life.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 182
    nanos: 939000000
  end_time:
    secs: 190
    nanos: 659000000
  text: And what I'm going to suggest in this episode is that that's true not just in one way, but in three ways.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 190
    nanos: 659000000
  end_time:
    secs: 200
    nanos: 319000000
  text: And all three of them, um, we have to understand according to the logic of love, the love of the bridegroom, Jesus, for his spouse, the church.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 200
    nanos: 319000000
  end_time:
    secs: 214
    nanos: 399000000
  text: In the Old Testament, um, God was presented as the bridegroom of Israel, but, um, it was also prophesied that he would, in the future, betroth Israel to him.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 214
    nanos: 399000000
  end_time:
    secs: 217
    nanos: 979000000
  text: This is from Hosea chapter two, verses 19 and 20.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 217
    nanos: 979000000
  end_time:
    secs: 223
    nanos: 919000000
  text: '"I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy.'
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 223
    nanos: 919000000
  end_time:
    secs: 240
    nanos: 799000000
  text: I will betroth you to me in faithfulness, and you shall know the Lord." 750 years later, uh, that was fulfilled, and John the Baptist had the privilege of proclaiming to Israel that the promised bridegroom had come, right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 240
    nanos: 799000000
  end_time:
    secs: 245
    nanos: 879000000
  text: And so people and his disciples were distressed that people were leaving him and going to Jesus.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 245
    nanos: 879000000
  end_time:
    secs: 247
    nanos: 219000000
  text: And he was not distressed.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 247
    nanos: 219000000
  end_time:
    secs: 250
    nanos: 619000000
  text: He said, "He who has the bride is the bridegroom.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 250
    nanos: 619000000
  end_time:
    secs: 258
    nanos: 639000000
  text: The friend of the bridegroom, John, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom's voice.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 258
    nanos: 639000000
  end_time:
    secs: 261
    nanos: 679000000
  text: For this reason, my joy has been fulfilled." Right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 261
    nanos: 679000000
  end_time:
    secs: 270
    nanos: 799000000
  text: So John the Baptist proclaimed Jesus as the bridegroom, and Jesus himself identified himself as the bridegroom in numerous places.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 270
    nanos: 799000000
  end_time:
    secs: 272
    nanos: 719000000
  text: He said that...
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 272
    nanos: 719000000
  end_time:
    secs: 283
    nanos: 659000000
  text: When asked why his disciples didn't fast, he said, "How can they fast when the bridegroom is with them?" And he also gave parables of the wedding feast of the king's son, right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 283
    nanos: 659000000
  end_time:
    secs: 287
    nanos: 319000000
  text: Implying that he indeed is the king's son, right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 287
    nanos: 319000000
  end_time:
    secs: 296
    nanos: 259000000
  text: The son of the Father, and, um, the church is his wedding feast, and the Eucharist is the wedding feast of the Lamb.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 296
    nanos: 259000000
  end_time:
    secs: 307
    nanos: 719000000
  text: So to enter into the, um, the why of the Eucharist, we have to look at, um, the nature of spousal love.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 307
    nanos: 719000000
  end_time:
    secs: 311
    nanos: 599000000
  text: And if we think about it, spousal love has three dimensions.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 311
    nanos: 599000000
  end_time:
    secs: 317
    nanos: 499000000
  text: A first aspect of spousal love is dwelling with one's spouse, right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 317
    nanos: 499000000
  end_time:
    secs: 320
    nanos: 839000000
  text: Spouses live together and share life together.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 320
    nanos: 839000000
  end_time:
    secs: 324
    nanos: 119000000
  text: But it's not all roses in this world, right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 324
    nanos: 119000000
  end_time:
    secs: 328
    nanos: 199000000
  text: And so spousal love requires sacrificial love.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 328
    nanos: 199000000
  end_time:
    secs: 336
    nanos: 619000000
  text: One has to give oneself for the beloved, um, and anyone who's been married knows, um, how true that is.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 336
    nanos: 619000000
  end_time:
    secs: 342
    nanos: 339000000
  text: Um, and that makes possible a unitive love, giving oneself to the beloved.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 342
    nanos: 339000000
  end_time:
    secs: 352
    nanos: 879000000
  text: So we can understand this with three prepositions, dwelling with the beloved, giving oneself for the beloved, and giving oneself to the beloved.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 352
    nanos: 879000000
  end_time:
    secs: 358
    nanos: 299000000
  text: And the Eucharist, um, does all three of these, right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 358
    nanos: 299000000
  end_time:
    secs: 361
    nanos: 819000000
  text: It's Christ's presence with his beloved, the church.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 361
    nanos: 819000000
  end_time:
    secs: 372
    nanos: 589000000
  text: It's his sacrificial act of giving himself for his bride-And it is the act of giving himself to his bride in holy communion.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 372
    nanos: 589000000
  end_time:
    secs: 373
    nanos: 409000000
  text: All right.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 373
    nanos: 409000000
  end_time:
    secs: 377
    nanos: 49000000
  text: So let's look at this a little more in detail.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 377
    nanos: 49000000
  end_time:
    secs: 378
    nanos: 150000000
  text: Right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 378
    nanos: 150000000
  end_time:
    secs: 380
    nanos: 309000000
  text: So first, presence with the beloved.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 380
    nanos: 309000000
  end_time:
    secs: 392
    nanos: 809000000
  text: Um, spousal friendship, um, requires, right, the sharing of life, and Christ wanted to remain close to his disciples, um, even though he knew he had to leave them, right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 392
    nanos: 809000000
  end_time:
    secs: 395
    nanos: 149000000
  text: And that's the drama of the Last Supper.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 395
    nanos: 149000000
  end_time:
    secs: 402
    nanos: 509000000
  text: And this is why Jesus instituted the Eucharist at the Last Supper, the night before he was about to leave them.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 402
    nanos: 509000000
  end_time:
    secs: 406
    nanos: 329000000
  text: And he knew that he would have to leave them in death on the next day.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 406
    nanos: 329000000
  end_time:
    secs: 417
    nanos: 989000000
  text: He knew he would rise, but he also knew that he would ascend out of this world 40 days later and, um, leave us with his visible, sensible presence.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 417
    nanos: 989000000
  end_time:
    secs: 418
    nanos: 690000000
  text: Right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 418
    nanos: 690000000
  end_time:
    secs: 431
    nanos: 249000000
  text: And so knowing that that was the case, having his last supper with his disciples, he wanted to leave them something, um, better than we leave our loved ones when death comes to us.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 431
    nanos: 249000000
  end_time:
    secs: 431
    nanos: 529000000
  text: Right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 431
    nanos: 529000000
  end_time:
    secs: 435
    nanos: 669000000
  text: The best we can do, um, is give a memory, right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 435
    nanos: 669000000
  end_time:
    secs: 447
    nanos: 709000000
  text: So my dad passed away a couple years ago, and, um, he, he would, he would have wanted to give himself, but all he could give was some photographs and heirlooms.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 447
    nanos: 709000000
  end_time:
    secs: 456
    nanos: 449000000
  text: Um, but Jesus is God and man, and so he could give an inheritance, an heirloom that would be nothing less than himself.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 456
    nanos: 449000000
  end_time:
    secs: 456
    nanos: 929000000
  text: Right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 456
    nanos: 929000000
  end_time:
    secs: 459
    nanos: 709000000
  text: And so this is the mystery of the real presence.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 459
    nanos: 709000000
  end_time:
    secs: 470
    nanos: 329000000
  text: Jesus was leaving them and yet wanted to remain, and that we could say is the divine problem, how to both leave and remain at the same time.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 470
    nanos: 329000000
  end_time:
    secs: 488
    nanos: 9000000
  text: And so the answer is to lead with his visible presence, but to remain with a true but veiled presence, a presence in which we can't see him sensibly, but in which he's present with the whole of himself, leaving nothing out.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 488
    nanos: 9000000
  end_time:
    secs: 488
    nanos: 809000000
  text: Right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 488
    nanos: 809000000
  end_time:
    secs: 492
    nanos: 629000000
  text: The second dimension of spousal love is sacrifice.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 492
    nanos: 629000000
  end_time:
    secs: 493
    nanos: 589000000
  text: Right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 493
    nanos: 589000000
  end_time:
    secs: 504
    nanos: 869000000
  text: And we all know this by experience, that, um, in this world, love for another person, and especially the total love that's involved in, in matrimony, um, involves sacrifice.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 504
    nanos: 869000000
  end_time:
    secs: 505
    nanos: 29000000
  text: Right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 505
    nanos: 29000000
  end_time:
    secs: 516
    nanos: 689000000
  text: One has to sacrifice one's own personal comfort and preferences, sleep for one's family, for one's spouse and children, and Christ is the bridegroom of humanity.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 516
    nanos: 689000000
  end_time:
    secs: 517
    nanos: 209000000
  text: Right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 517
    nanos: 209000000
  end_time:
    secs: 530
    nanos: 89000000
  text: He came to be the bridegroom of Israel and the church and wanted all mankind to be his bride, and therefore he has sacrificed himself for his entire bride.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 530
    nanos: 89000000
  end_time:
    secs: 534
    nanos: 149000000
  text: That is, for the redemption of sins of every human being.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 534
    nanos: 149000000
  end_time:
    secs: 535
    nanos: 169000000
  text: Right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 535
    nanos: 169000000
  end_time:
    secs: 541
    nanos: 689000000
  text: Um, Saint Paul lays out this logic in Ephesians chapter five, famous text read at weddings.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 541
    nanos: 689000000
  end_time:
    secs: 550
    nanos: 89000000
  text: '"Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify." Right?'
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 550
    nanos: 89000000
  end_time:
    secs: 552
    nanos: 729000000
  text: Christ loved his bride on Calvary, right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 552
    nanos: 729000000
  end_time:
    secs: 566
    nanos: 249000000
  text: And so the night before, um, John introduces the Last Supper, um, saying that, um, he, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 566
    nanos: 249000000
  end_time:
    secs: 566
    nanos: 569000000
  text: Right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 566
    nanos: 569000000
  end_time:
    secs: 570
    nanos: 889000000
  text: And that's his death for his bride the next day.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 570
    nanos: 889000000
  end_time:
    secs: 574
    nanos: 749000000
  text: But Jesus wanted to...
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 574
    nanos: 749000000
  end_time:
    secs: 576
    nanos: 629000000
  text: Again, he, this is a divine problem.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 576
    nanos: 629000000
  end_time:
    secs: 588
    nanos: 589000000
  text: Um, when we do heroic acts, for example, when someone gives their life for another, that act passes into history and gets lost in the flow of time.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 588
    nanos: 589000000
  end_time:
    secs: 608
    nanos: 949000000
  text: And Jesus wanted his act by which he was dying for his bride, the sacrifice of Calvary, to remain with his bride so that it could be hers, so that she could receive it and offer it to his father as the one perfect sacrifice of human history.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 608
    nanos: 949000000
  end_time:
    secs: 612
    nanos: 449000000
  text: Um, now, we simply can't do that.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 612
    nanos: 449000000
  end_time:
    secs: 620
    nanos: 309000000
  text: We can't take an act that's done in time and preserve it and enable it to be made present all through human history.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 620
    nanos: 309000000
  end_time:
    secs: 644
    nanos: 749000000
  text: But Jesus is God and man, and he found a way by which the act that passed into time could be, um, sacramentally made present throughout the life of his church so that his bride could offer it with him and w- offer herself with him every day of her life.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 644
    nanos: 749000000
  end_time:
    secs: 645
    nanos: 589000000
  text: Right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 645
    nanos: 589000000
  end_time:
    secs: 648
    nanos: 649000000
  text: So this is the second reason for the Eucharist.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 648
    nanos: 649000000
  end_time:
    secs: 655
    nanos: 969000000
  text: Pope Benedict speaks of the Eucharist as drawing us into Jesus' act of self-oblation, right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 655
    nanos: 969000000
  end_time:
    secs: 659
    nanos: 449000000
  text: Self-gift, self-sacrifice.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 659
    nanos: 449000000
  end_time:
    secs: 666
    nanos: 189000000
  text: More than just statically receiving the incarnate Logos, we enter into the very dynamic of his self-giving.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 666
    nanos: 189000000
  end_time:
    secs: 672
    nanos: 529000000
  text: And I think this is especially important for us to be attentive to, because I think most of the Catholic faithful miss this.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 672
    nanos: 529000000
  end_time:
    secs: 672
    nanos: 749000000
  text: Right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 672
    nanos: 749000000
  end_time:
    secs: 677
    nanos: 669000000
  text: We tend to think of the Eucharist primarily in terms of what we receive, which is very important.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 677
    nanos: 669000000
  end_time:
    secs: 678
    nanos: 829000000
  text: We'll talk about that next.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 678
    nanos: 829000000
  end_time:
    secs: 682
    nanos: 609000000
  text: But it's not actually the first thing, right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 682
    nanos: 609000000
  end_time:
    secs: 691
    nanos: 789000000
  text: The first thing is, um, Jesus' sacrifice to his father and it being made present so that we can join in.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 691
    nanos: 789000000
  end_time:
    secs: 692
    nanos: 189000000
  text: Right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 692
    nanos: 189000000
  end_time:
    secs: 697
    nanos: 709000000
  text: We enter into the very dynamic of his self-giving, in the words of Benedict XVI.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 697
    nanos: 709000000
  end_time:
    secs: 705
    nanos: 649000000
  text: And we express this in all of the Eucharistic prayers, and it comes right after the, um, consecration.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 705
    nanos: 649000000
  end_time:
    secs: 706
    nanos: 509000000
  text: Right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 706
    nanos: 509000000
  end_time:
    secs: 725
    nanos: 409000000
  text: So for example, in the Roman Canon, the first Eucharistic prayer, right after the consecration, the priest prays, "We, your servants, and your holy people," that is, the whole church, "offer to you, to your glorious majesty from the gifts you have given us, this pure victim, this holy victim, this spotless victim." Right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 725
    nanos: 409000000
  end_time:
    secs: 734
    nanos: 7000000
  text: So the whole church is joining in the offering.So that's the second dimension of the Eucharist.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 734
    nanos: 7000000
  end_time:
    secs: 745
    nanos: 988000000
  text: He wanted His sacrifice not simply to pass into history, but to remain present with us, to be our own, so that we can join with Him in the offering.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 745
    nanos: 988000000
  end_time:
    secs: 756
    nanos: 127000000
  text: On Calvary, Jesus offered, uh, His sacrifice, um, in the presence of His mother and His beloved disciple, John, right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 756
    nanos: 127000000
  end_time:
    secs: 771
    nanos: 827000000
  text: And they joined in the offering, but there were only two, and yes, there were two others, the two other Marys, and He wants His whole church to join in the offering, as in the model, on the model of Mary and the other Marys and John.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 771
    nanos: 827000000
  end_time:
    secs: 780
    nanos: 127000000
  text: Uh, third reason for the Eucharist is, um, unitive love, right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 780
    nanos: 127000000
  end_time:
    secs: 790
    nanos: 707000000
  text: It belongs to spousal love, not simply to sacrifice one self for the beloved, but to give one self totally to the beloved, right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 790
    nanos: 707000000
  end_time:
    secs: 793
    nanos: 27000000
  text: And we can't totally do that, right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 793
    nanos: 27000000
  end_time:
    secs: 794
    nanos: 87000000
  text: We try.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 794
    nanos: 87000000
  end_time:
    secs: 800
    nanos: 187000000
  text: That's what marriage is about, total self-gift and to give our paternity or maternity to one another.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 800
    nanos: 187000000
  end_time:
    secs: 812
    nanos: 907000000
  text: But Jesus, um, was able, again, to do this in a way, um, with each one of us, and holy communion is the answer, we could say, to this divine problem.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 812
    nanos: 907000000
  end_time:
    secs: 822
    nanos: 607000000
  text: How could the bridegroom give himself totally to a bride that extends to mankind, um, ideally?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 822
    nanos: 607000000
  end_time:
    secs: 833
    nanos: 367000000
  text: Um, and holy communion is the answer, by which He gives Himself totally, and that means in His human body, His blood, His soul, and His divinity.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 833
    nanos: 367000000
  end_time:
    secs: 835
    nanos: 367000000
  text: Right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 835
    nanos: 367000000
  end_time:
    secs: 837
    nanos: 547000000
  text: And this has another consequence.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 837
    nanos: 547000000
  end_time:
    secs: 849
    nanos: 187000000
  text: Each one of us being united to Jesus' self-gift and being transformed into greater union with Him, that enables us to be transformed into greater union with one another.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 849
    nanos: 187000000
  end_time:
    secs: 854
    nanos: 667000000
  text: And so the Eucharist is the sacrament of ecclesial unity.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 854
    nanos: 667000000
  end_time:
    secs: 867
    nanos: 907000000
  text: Saint Paul speaks about this in 1 Corinthians 10:17, "We, being many, are one bread, one body, all that partake of the one bread." That is, the one Eucharist.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 867
    nanos: 907000000
  end_time:
    secs: 869
    nanos: 127000000
  text: All right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 869
    nanos: 127000000
  end_time:
    secs: 885
    nanos: 167000000
  text: So in summary, Jesus wished to perpetuate His human presence among us, to perpetuate His sacrifice, His redemptive sacrifice, the supreme act of His love, and to allow us to join Him in offering it to the Father.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 885
    nanos: 167000000
  end_time:
    secs: 900
    nanos: 527000000
  text: And third, He wanted to unite Himself in intimate communion with His bride through the ages, so as to be our spiritual food and drink, converting us l- day by day into Himself.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 900
    nanos: 527000000
  end_time:
    secs: 901
    nanos: 207000000
  text: Right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 901
    nanos: 207000000
  end_time:
    secs: 913
    nanos: 107000000
  text: And these three purposes correspond to the three central mysteries that come together in the Eucharist, the real presence, the sacrifice of the mass, and holy communion.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 913
    nanos: 107000000
  end_time:
    secs: 920
    nanos: 107000000
  text: And these three ends are intimately related and presuppose one another.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 920
    nanos: 107000000
  end_time:
    secs: 920
    nanos: 567000000
  text: All right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 920
    nanos: 567000000
  end_time:
    secs: 924
    nanos: 287000000
  text: So the real presence is the foundation of the other two.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 924
    nanos: 287000000
  end_time:
    secs: 928
    nanos: 287000000
  text: Without the real presence, you wouldn't have the sacrifice, right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 928
    nanos: 287000000
  end_time:
    secs: 932
    nanos: 667000000
  text: We w- if we just have bread and wine on the altar, that's not the sacrifice of Calvary.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 932
    nanos: 667000000
  end_time:
    secs: 940
    nanos: 167000000
  text: So we need the victim of Calvary to be present on the altar through the real presence in order to have the sacrifice.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 940
    nanos: 167000000
  end_time:
    secs: 945
    nanos: 927000000
  text: And likewise, we need the, the real presence in order to have holy communion, right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 945
    nanos: 927000000
  end_time:
    secs: 952
    nanos: 487000000
  text: It's holy communion not with bread and wine, but with our Lord in the whole of Himself.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 952
    nanos: 487000000
  end_time:
    secs: 958
    nanos: 627000000
  text: That is His humanity and body and blood, His human soul, and His, um, divinity.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 958
    nanos: 627000000
  end_time:
    secs: 960
    nanos: 987000000
  text: And they...
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 960
    nanos: 987000000
  end_time:
    secs: 961
    nanos: 707000000
  text: There's an order.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 961
    nanos: 707000000
  end_time:
    secs: 965
    nanos: 807000000
  text: The words of consecration make Jesus present, right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 965
    nanos: 807000000
  end_time:
    secs: 973
    nanos: 267000000
  text: So the real present, um, but immediately as He becomes present under both species, His sacrifice is also made present.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 973
    nanos: 267000000
  end_time:
    secs: 983
    nanos: 67000000
  text: He's present there in His body and His blood separated on the altar, as on Calvary, His blood was physically separated from His body.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 983
    nanos: 67000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1006
    nanos: 287000000
  text: And so the sacrifice is made complete as soon as Jesus is present in both species, and that's why the Eucharist involves the species of, of bread and wine to make His body and His blood present separately, manifesting His sacrifice in which His blood was physically separated from His body on Calvary.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1006
    nanos: 287000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1007
    nanos: 167000000
  text: All right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1007
    nanos: 167000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1036
    nanos: 547000000
  text: So immediately after the real presence is realized in both species, His sacrifice is made present, and then at the conclusion, um, we receive Him, the very victim that was offered, we receive the victim in holy communion, and that is to transform ourselves into His likeness more and more, um, transforming us into one who gives, um, ourselves on the model of Christ's cross and resurrection.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1036
    nanos: 547000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1047
    nanos: 687000000
  text: Now, the Eucharist is not merely, um, something marginal, um, in the life of the church and external rite.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1047
    nanos: 687000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1060
    nanos: 927000000
  text: And we can see this even more clearly if we reflect on the fact that the Eucharist obeys the same logic, the same divine logic of love as the incarnation itself and the passion.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1060
    nanos: 927000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1077
    nanos: 567000000
  text: For the Eucharist is best understood as the prolongation of the incarnation and passion and resurrection, that is, the incarnation and the paschal mystery throughout the life of the church until Christ comes again in glory.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1077
    nanos: 567000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1085
    nanos: 567000000
  text: And so we can ask the question, why did God become man in the first place?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1085
    nanos: 567000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1086
    nanos: 367000000
  text: And I...
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1086
    nanos: 367000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1105
    nanos: 981000000
  text: This could be answered different ways, Saint Thomas Aquinas gives 10 reasons, but we can, I think, single out three fundamental reasons that match those same three reasons we gave for the Eucharist.God became man to dwell among us as a man among, um, human beings, as a man among men.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1105
    nanos: 981000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1118
    nanos: 261000000
  text: He came, um, he became man to sacrifice himself for us, to reconcile ourselves with, with God, and to win the forgiveness of sins and merit every grace.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1118
    nanos: 261000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1118
    nanos: 582000000
  text: Right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1118
    nanos: 582000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1122
    nanos: 261000000
  text: So, that's the second reason for the incarnation is his sacrifice.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1122
    nanos: 261000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1122
    nanos: 742000000
  text: Right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1122
    nanos: 742000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1128
    nanos: 761000000
  text: 'That''s the reason that St. Anselm highlighted in his book, um, Cur Deus Homo: Why God Became Man.'
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1128
    nanos: 761000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1132
    nanos: 421000000
  text: And third, we tend to forget about this, but the East...
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1132
    nanos: 421000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1136
    nanos: 141000000
  text: our Eastern brothers and sisters are, I think, have a higher awareness.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1136
    nanos: 141000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1137
    nanos: 361000000
  text: Third, he...
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1137
    nanos: 361000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1142
    nanos: 62000000
  text: God became man for the sake of a divine interchange.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1142
    nanos: 62000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1148
    nanos: 922000000
  text: He took on our nature so as to give us a share of his divine life.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1148
    nanos: 922000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1149
    nanos: 581000000
  text: Right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1149
    nanos: 581000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1156
    nanos: 862000000
  text: And so, he took what is ours, humanity, so as to give us, progressively, a share of what is his, divine life.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1156
    nanos: 862000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1166
    nanos: 541000000
  text: He, the son of God, became a son of man so that we, the sons and daughters of men, can become sons and daughters of God.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1166
    nanos: 541000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1166
    nanos: 841000000
  text: All right.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1166
    nanos: 841000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1173
    nanos: 241000000
  text: It begins in baptism, but it's nourished day by day or week by week through Holy Communion.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1173
    nanos: 241000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1175
    nanos: 21000000
  text: Okay, let's start with the first.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1175
    nanos: 21000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1183
    nanos: 661000000
  text: Um, God became man to dwell among us as a human being among human beings, um, and t- here, there's a key principle.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1183
    nanos: 661000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1187
    nanos: 121000000
  text: Everything is received according to mode of the recipient.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1187
    nanos: 121000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1196
    nanos: 641000000
  text: God wants to give himself to us, but he knows our mode and takes on our mode of being, coming to dwell, um, in our midst.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1196
    nanos: 641000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1204
    nanos: 801000000
  text: And this was foreshadowed in Israel in a beautiful way, um, the Shekinah, um, and that is...
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1204
    nanos: 801000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1219
    nanos: 721000000
  text: There was a divine presence that was mysterious, um, that overshadowed the Ark of the Covenant, um, and the tent of meeting where Israel worshiped, um, and I'll talk more about this in the next episode.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1219
    nanos: 721000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1226
    nanos: 121000000
  text: So, just briefly say, um, Jews refer to that as the Shekinah, a dw- a glory dwelling.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1226
    nanos: 121000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1232
    nanos: 701000000
  text: In other words, a divine presence manifested in a cloud of glory over the holy place, the Ark of the Covenant.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1232
    nanos: 701000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1240
    nanos: 81000000
  text: And Shekinah comes from the Hebrew word shahan, to dwell, to dwell as in a tent.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1240
    nanos: 81000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1240
    nanos: 721000000
  text: Right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1240
    nanos: 721000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1248
    nanos: 381000000
  text: And now, God wasn't physically or substantially present in the Old Testament, um, in the Shekinah.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1248
    nanos: 381000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1258
    nanos: 381000000
  text: It was something sensible, a cloud of glory to show a mystery, and that mystery is prefiguring the mystery of the incarnation and of the Eucharist.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1258
    nanos: 381000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1266
    nanos: 281000000
  text: Um, and John highlights this in his prologue of his gospel, um, the verse...
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1266
    nanos: 281000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1278
    nanos: 621000000
  text: um, chapter 1, verse 14, "The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us." And here, John has used the word to dwell, um, a Greek word, as close as possible to the Hebrew word.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1278
    nanos: 621000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1282
    nanos: 81000000
  text: It even has the same confidence, um, ʻaskenāsen.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1282
    nanos: 81000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1285
    nanos: 141000000
  text: Um, and precisely to, to make...
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1285
    nanos: 141000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1297
    nanos: 101000000
  text: bring out this continuity that what the Old Testament foreshadowed with this glory presence was realized by the incarnation, God dwelling, um, i- in our midst.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1297
    nanos: 101000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1297
    nanos: 901000000
  text: Right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1297
    nanos: 901000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1317
    nanos: 81000000
  text: Now, if that was the purpose of the incarnation, that we said is the first purpose of the Eucharist, to dwell in our midst, and notice he's dwelling in, in one way in, in a better way, but in another sense, in a, um, a way that we would, um, um, wish for otherwise.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1317
    nanos: 81000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1323
    nanos: 321000000
  text: Um, so he's dwelling in our midst in the Eucharist in a way that's not visible.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1323
    nanos: 321000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1323
    nanos: 561000000
  text: Right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1323
    nanos: 561000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1324
    nanos: 841000000
  text: We see something else.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1324
    nanos: 841000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1327
    nanos: 961000000
  text: He's veiled by the appearances of bread and wine.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1327
    nanos: 961000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1334
    nanos: 521000000
  text: But he's present in a better way because he's present wherever his bride is.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1334
    nanos: 521000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1335
    nanos: 1000000
  text: Right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1335
    nanos: 1000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1349
    nanos: 981000000
  text: So, in the incarnation, um, God became man in Nazareth, and he lived in Galilee, traveled to Jerusalem and other parts of Israel, but he was only in one place at a time and never went beyond those borders, um, and only for 33 years.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1349
    nanos: 981000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1353
    nanos: 601000000
  text: And we live 2,000 years later and in a different continent, et cetera.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1353
    nanos: 601000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1366
    nanos: 401000000
  text: And so, Jesus wanted to continue the logic of the incarnation m- in a more super abundant, generous way so that we could encounter him right where we are.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1366
    nanos: 401000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1367
    nanos: 661000000
  text: Right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1367
    nanos: 661000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1374
    nanos: 201000000
  text: So I'm speaking here in Steubenville, and I encountered him this morning in St. Peter's Church in, in Steubenville.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1374
    nanos: 201000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1378
    nanos: 721000000
  text: And wherever we go, where there's a Catholic priest, we can encounter...
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1378
    nanos: 721000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1392
    nanos: 41000000
  text: and a tabernacle, we can encounter the incarnate Lord, right, who became man in one particular place, but has wanted his human presence to be encountered wherever we are.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1392
    nanos: 41000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1402
    nanos: 41000000
  text: And a second, um, we could say, advantage of this Eucharistic way of presence is it heightens the merit of faith.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1402
    nanos: 41000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1408
    nanos: 501000000
  text: Now, that merit of faith was already there in the incarnation because one saw his humanity and didn't see his divinity.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1408
    nanos: 501000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1419
    nanos: 521000000
  text: But in the Eucharist, we see neither his humanity nor his divinity, and what we see is something totally different, um, bread and wine.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1419
    nanos: 521000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1421
    nanos: 781000000
  text: And so, we have to have a...
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1421
    nanos: 781000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1426
    nanos: 801000000
  text: as it were, a double faith, believing both his divinity and his humanity.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1426
    nanos: 801000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1429
    nanos: 581000000
  text: And that, um, we can't...
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1429
    nanos: 581000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1429
    nanos: 801000000
  text: Right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1429
    nanos: 801000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1431
    nanos: 261000000
  text: That we can't do that ourselves.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1431
    nanos: 261000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1435
    nanos: 121000000
  text: We believe through the grace of faith.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1435
    nanos: 121000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1436
    nanos: 861000000
  text: But nevertheless that...
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1436
    nanos: 861000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1442
    nanos: 921000000
  text: God provides also for a merit, the merit of faith through his own gift of faith.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1442
    nanos: 921000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1467
    nanos: 51000000
  text: Um, and in that sense, we could say it continues the logic of the incarnation in which that was the greatest merit of faith, believing God present in this man, Jesus of Nazareth, and so in the Eucharist, to believe his divinity and his humanity present in the tabernacle and on the altar and in Holy Communion....
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1467
    nanos: 51000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1470
    nanos: 611000000
  text: God became man also to be a model of every virtue.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1470
    nanos: 611000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1477
    nanos: 252000000
  text: And in the Eucharist's eye, this may be, seem extravagant, but in, in the Eucharist he continues to be our teacher, right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1477
    nanos: 252000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1484
    nanos: 52000000
  text: Because in the Eucharist, he continues to be a model of all the great virtues, starting with charity.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1484
    nanos: 52000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1493
    nanos: 31000000
  text: He's there where we are, wherever we are, and he's there not for himself, but only to give himself to us, to be encountered by us whenever we want.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1493
    nanos: 31000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1495
    nanos: 211000000
  text: He seeks nothing of his own.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1495
    nanos: 211000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1498
    nanos: 972000000
  text: He bears with our, um, indifference.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1498
    nanos: 972000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1505
    nanos: 171000000
  text: Um, he, um, exercises patience and, um, and humility.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1505
    nanos: 171000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1514
    nanos: 711000000
  text: And just again, as in the logic of the incarnation, um, Saint Paul in Philippians chapter two speaks of Christ's self-emptying.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1514
    nanos: 711000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1525
    nanos: 431000000
  text: Though he was in the form of God, right, he didn't clutch, see it as something to, um, to grasp, but emptied himself, taking on the form of a slave, right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1525
    nanos: 431000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1529
    nanos: 11000000
  text: Um, even to the, um, obedience and to death.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1529
    nanos: 11000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1532
    nanos: 91000000
  text: In the Eucharist, that logic continues, right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1532
    nanos: 91000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1537
    nanos: 931000000
  text: He empties himself even of the visible, um, appearances of humanity.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1537
    nanos: 931000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1550
    nanos: 771000000
  text: Um, and so he's totally self-emptied, as it were, in the tabernacle, um, waiting for us and giving himself totally, for us and to us.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1550
    nanos: 771000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1561
    nanos: 571000000
  text: Let's look at the second reason for the incarnation, the sacrifice.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1561
    nanos: 571000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1561
    nanos: 951000000
  text: Right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1561
    nanos: 951000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1578
    nanos: 111000000
  text: So, God became man because after sin entered the world, um, there needs to be a, an, um, an act both of turning back to God and of making satisfaction for sin.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1578
    nanos: 111000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1586
    nanos: 671000000
  text: But the problem is, we can't make perfect satisfaction for our sin, because it's more, um, it has a certain infinite gravity, as Saint Anselm explains.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1586
    nanos: 671000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1598
    nanos: 411000000
  text: And so God became man to offer himself, um, in such a way that his offering, out of love, would be more pleasing than all human sin together is displeasing.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1598
    nanos: 411000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1599
    nanos: 371000000
  text: All right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1599
    nanos: 371000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1601
    nanos: 191000000
  text: That continues in the Eucharist.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1601
    nanos: 191000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1613
    nanos: 811000000
  text: He wanted that very act to be present on our altars today, so that today, this morning, we could offer something more pleasing than all human sin put together is displeasing.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1613
    nanos: 811000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1616
    nanos: 11000000
  text: That's true of every Mass.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1616
    nanos: 11000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1618
    nanos: 371000000
  text: Right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1618
    nanos: 371000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1628
    nanos: 871000000
  text: So he wanted his sacrifice, the central act of history, to be the center of each of our lives and weeks and, if possible, days.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1628
    nanos: 871000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1635
    nanos: 871000000
  text: We'll come back to this in episode seven, on the sacrifice of the Mass.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1635
    nanos: 871000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1637
    nanos: 831000000
  text: Right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1637
    nanos: 831000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1645
    nanos: 471000000
  text: So he's loved us to the end, and that love to the end is made present every day in the life of the church in the Eucharist.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1645
    nanos: 471000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1650
    nanos: 791000000
  text: And then third, we said God became man for a divine interchange.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1650
    nanos: 791000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1657
    nanos: 231000000
  text: He became man so that we could be divinized, sanctified, and come to share in his divine nature.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1657
    nanos: 231000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1657
    nanos: 791000000
  text: Right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1657
    nanos: 791000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1661
    nanos: 831000000
  text: And so that, um, is a re- a fundamental reason for the incarnation.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1661
    nanos: 831000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1665
    nanos: 911000000
  text: God takes on what is ours to give us a share of what is his.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1665
    nanos: 911000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1667
    nanos: 211000000
  text: But how does that work?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1667
    nanos: 211000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1673
    nanos: 331000000
  text: As it will work, um, the principle, the ordinary means for this divine interchange is, in fact, the Eucharist.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1673
    nanos: 331000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1682
    nanos: 791000000
  text: Because in the Eucharist, he gives himself to us, whole and entire, body, blood, soul, and divinity, that is humanity and divinity, entire.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1682
    nanos: 791000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1692
    nanos: 871000000
  text: He comes into us, um, bodily so that we, um, are nourished by him, not physically, but spiritually.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1692
    nanos: 871000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1696
    nanos: 91000000
  text: That means he's nourishing us in what is his.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1696
    nanos: 91000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1700
    nanos: 331000000
  text: What is his is divine nature and charity.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1700
    nanos: 331000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1705
    nanos: 171000000
  text: That is, the love and to love one another as he has loved us.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1705
    nanos: 171000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1712
    nanos: 191000000
  text: And so in every holy communion, we're being nourished by his life so as to be more converted into him.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1712
    nanos: 191000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1714
    nanos: 911000000
  text: Saint Augustine makes a parallel here with eating.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1714
    nanos: 911000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1716
    nanos: 351000000
  text: So, I had breakfast this morning.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1716
    nanos: 351000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1722
    nanos: 171000000
  text: My breakfast has become my egg, um, and cereal has be- now become me.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1722
    nanos: 171000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1725
    nanos: 11000000
  text: But when we receive communion, it's the other way around.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1725
    nanos: 11000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1725
    nanos: 631000000
  text: Right?
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1725
    nanos: 631000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1737
    nanos: 771000000
  text: We receive him so as to become more, um, configured to him, made more like him, and made more like him, above all, in the power to love as he has loved us.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1737
    nanos: 771000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1745
    nanos: 211000000
  text: Um, we see this in many, many prayers of the Eucharist, um, the, even the, um, offertory prayer.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1745
    nanos: 211000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1754
    nanos: 31000000
  text: By the mystery of this water and wine, may we come to share in the divinity of Christ, who humbled himself to share in our humanity.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1754
    nanos: 31000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1758
    nanos: 611000000
  text: And, um, this is expressed in a beautiful way in the collect for Christmas Mass.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1758
    nanos: 611000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1773
    nanos: 571000000
  text: '"Oh, God, who wonderfully created the dignity of human nature and still more wonderfully restored it, grant, we pray, that we may share in the divinity of Christ, who humbled themself- self to share in our humanity." Right?'
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1773
    nanos: 571000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1779
    nanos: 951000000
  text: That's, um, that's what is accomplished through every holy communion that we receive worth.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1779
    nanos: 951000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1786
    nanos: 931000000
  text: So, in summary, the Eucharist, as the sacrament of the, the charity of the bridegroom.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1786
    nanos: 931000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1800
    nanos: 971000000
  text: It has three fundamental aspects, presence, sacrifice, and union, and that's expressed in the three mysteries of the Eucharist, the real presence, the sacrifice of the Mass, and holy communion.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1800
    nanos: 971000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1809
    nanos: 231000000
  text: And we'll, um, take apart those three, um, aspects in further episodes, um, in this series.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1809
    nanos: 231000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1810
    nanos: 11000000
  text: Thank you.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1810
    nanos: 11000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1812
    nanos: 431000000
  text: In the name of the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1812
    nanos: 431000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1812
    nanos: 991000000
  text: Amen.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1812
    nanos: 991000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1818
    nanos: 151000000
  text: We give you thanks, almighty God, for the gift of the Eucharist, through Christ our Lord.
  speaker: speaker_0
- start_time:
    secs: 1818
    nanos: 151000000
  end_time:
    secs: 1818
    nanos: 851000000
  text: Amen.
  speaker: speaker_0
