PRESENTED BY THE AQUINAS CENTER & THE THOMISTIC INSTITUTE
AVE MARIA, FLORIDA || FEBRUARY 1-3, 2024

The U.S. Bishops have called for a grassroots Eucharistic Revival, "a movement of Catholics across the United States, healed, converted, formed, and unified by an encounter with Jesus in the Eucharist—and sent out in mission 'for the life of the world.'" One resource for this revival is Saint Thomas Aquinas. His theology has been a touchstone for the Church's magisterial teaching on the Eucharist over the centuries, and the Church gives him an unparalleled position in Eucharistic theology and worship. His work appears in the Church's Liturgy of the Hours and Mass Sequence on the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, and we sing his Eucharistic hymns at many other times of Eucharistic celebration and adoration. In Saint Thomas, we find the finest expressions of truth, beauty, and love to move our hearts for Christ's presence in the Eucharist.

The Aquinas Center for Theological Renewal at Ave Maria University and the Thomistic Institute of the Pontifical Faculty at the Dominican House of Studies invite papers for their co-sponsored conference on “Thomas Aquinas and the Eucharist: Pathways to Revival”. The conference will take place in Ave Maria, Florida from February 1-3, 2024. This conference will draw upon Saint Thomas for theological, spiritual, pastoral, and evangelistic pathways in the Eucharistic Revival.

Click here to register via Ave Maria’s website.

Confirmed Speakers:

Archbishop Allen Vigneron (Archdiocese of Detroit)

Fr. Bernhard Blankenhorn, O.P. (University of Fribourg)

Fr. Romanus Cessario, O.P. (Ave Maria University)

Prof. Franklin T. Harkins (Boston College)

Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P.—Dominican House of Studies

Prof. Matthew Levering (University of St. Mary of the Lake)

Fr. Reginald Lynch, O.P. (Dominican House of Studies)

Fr. Guy Mansini, O.S.B. (Ave Maria University)

Prof. Roger Nutt (Ave Maria University)

Fr. Innocent Smith, O.P. (Dominican House of Studies)

Sr. Albert Marie Surmanski, O.P. (University of St. Thomas)

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Aquinas Center for Theological Renewal at Ave Maria University and the Thomistic Institute of the Pontifical Faculty at the Dominican House of Studies invite proposals for a 20-minute presentation. Proposals should draw upon Saint Thomas for theological, spiritual, pastoral, and evangelistic pathways in the Eucharistic Revival.

PLEASE EMAIL PROPOSALS TO GRADUATETHEOLOGY@AVEMARIA.EDU

PROPOSALS SHOULD INCLUDE A PRESENTATION TITLE, 150- TO 300-WORD ABSTRACT, AND A CURRENT C.V.

PROPOSALS ARE DUE OCTOBER 1, 2023.

DECISIONS WILL BE GIVEN NOVEMBER 1, 2023.