Talks Offered by Our Speakers
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The Eucharist: Symbol or Substantial Presence? Karlo Broussard Karlo dives deep into the scriptures and pulls out the Eucharistic truths as found in Jesus’ Bread of Life discourse, the Last Supper and St. Paul’s Theology on the Eucharist. In response to the common Protestant assertion that the Eucharist is merely a symbol, Karlo shows with great clarity that nothing could be further from the truth. He successfully gives the biblical evidence that Jesus’ promise to remain with His Church always until the end of time is ultimately fulfilled in His substantial presence in the Eucharist. |
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The Holy Eucharist: You Are What You Eat Patrick Coffin The Real Presence, along with the papacy and the Marian doctrines, is the Catholic distinctive. Patrick dives headfirst into the word of God, the teachings of the Church and the writings of the Church fathers, to show the biblical basis for the “Bread come down from heaven.” The Eucharist is Jesus. |
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Why Our Belief In The Real Presence Matters More Than Ever Jim Blackburn We will explore evidence for the Real Presence in scripture and the writings of early Christians as well as refute common challenges to the Eucharist brought by non-Catholics. We will consider these questions: • Is the Eucharist foreshadowed in the Old Testament? |
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The Eucharist - God’s Extravagant Love Revealed Tim Staples Tim defends the real presence of our Lord in the Eucharist using the text of John 6 given in its historical context. According to St. Irenaeus, in the second century, St. John had the Gnostic heretic, Cerinthus, in mind when he penned his Gospel. Tim unlocks the keys to understanding, in this context, why St. John emphasized—1. The Divinity of Christ and his equality with the Father, and 2. The true presence of Christ in the Eucharist—more than any of the other Evangelists. He did so precisely because these were two of the central points Cerinthus and his Gnostic followers denied. |
