The Eucharist - A Taste of Heaven on Earth
Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers and Fr. Brian Mullady deliver a five-part miniseries on Church Teaching surrounding the Eucharist and Christ’s Real Presence.
HEAVEN ON EARTH BEGUN
Fr. Brian Mullady, O.P., and Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers discuss Catholic teaching concerning earthly worship and how participants in the Mass enter eternity.
THE REAL PRESENCE
Fr. Brian Mullady, O.P., and Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers define what transubstantiation is and allude to its roots in the Bible.
THE MASS AS A SACRAMENT
Fr. Brian Mullady, O.P., and Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers show how the Eucharist is food for the journey to heaven and the ways it is a sacred banquet.
THE MASS AS A SACRIFICE
Fr. Brian Mullady, O.P., and Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers discuss how the Eucharist takes the receiver to Calvary, and how Vatican II’s “active participation” encourages spiritual growth.
LITURGICAL ISSUES
Fr. Brian Mullady, O.P., and Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers explain why following the rubrics of the Mass draws us into deeper relationship with Christ, and how certain liturgical abuses undermined Christ’s Real Presence in the Eucharist.