The gift of the Eucharist is essential for the mystical life of the Church. It is the source and summit of the life of prayer and devotion to Christ. This gift also animates the mercy that Christians are called to share. This is because, in the wisdom of the saints, the real presence of Christ in this Sacrament opens to horizons of communion, adoration, contemplation and mission to the world.
Receptivity to Christ, the Truth, is a constitutive aspect of the mystical union. Only through an habitual disposition of receptivity to the real can we organically—and dynamically—transform a broken world. As such, the true place and charism of women in the Body of Christ is desperately beseeching the attention of the modern Catholic. What exactly is a woman’s role in the Church? And how can she serve as a model of contemplation that is truly informative to culture?
In his first Keynote, Francis Cardinal Arinze discusses the importance of personal prayer in our daily lives.
In his second Keynote, Francis Cardinal Arinze talks about our disposition during Mass, how we should have with a Eucharistic participation in the Sacred Liturgy.
In his keynote talk, Christopher Carstens discusses how to pray the Mass, which is the source and summit of our own sanctity.
In Christopher Carstens’ breakout session, he proposes ways to cultivate culture. Vatican II’s Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy sought to balance the “substantial unity of the Roman Rite” with “legitimate variations” found in the many cultures in which the Church lives. But such harmony has been—and continues to be—hard to achieve. This workshop clarifies the meaning of “culture” and“inculturation,” and how the Church’s worship affects our world—and vice versa.
Fr. Cassian Folsom speaks on the monastic experience of cultus and culture found in the daily lives of the Benedictine monks.
Dan Burke discusses participation and contemplation of the people during the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.