Talk at Sacred Heart by University of Notre Dame Professor
Talk at Sacred Heart by University of Notre Dame Professor
Offers Inspiration , Fellowship for Lay Ecclesial Ministers
Karla Dorweiler
A crowd of 120 lay ecclesial ministers and lay faithful gathered at Sacred Heart Major Seminary on Thursday , November 2 , to hear an engaging talk by Dr . Timothy O ’ Malley titled , “ The Eucharist and Happiness : Liturgical Evangelization in a ( Sort of ) Secular Age .” O ’ Malley is a theology professor at the University of Notre Dame and the Academic Director for the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy at the McGrath Institute for Church Life . The talk served as the 2023 installment of Sacred Heart ’ s In the Heart of the Church LEM Speaker Series , providing ongoing formation to lay ecclesial ministers in the Archdiocese of Detroit .
Dr . O ’ Malley first asked the question : what is the secular age , and how does it affect Eucharistic devotion ? He posited that the Eucharist is “ a medicine for what ails us .”
Dr . O ’ Malley identified three crises of the Eucharist : a crisis of memory , in which the story and tradition of the Eucharist and Catholic tradition have been forgotten as the younger generation rarely hears testimonies of faith or of Eucharistic traditions and customs ; a crisis of authority , wherein people no longer trust institutions such as government , media , and the Church ; and a crisis of festivity , in which the constant
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