Carnegie Mellon University & The University of Pittsburgh

The Thomistic Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh and the Beatrice Institute present a lecture by Fr. Reginald Lynch, O.P. of the Dominican House of Studies titled “Sacrament and Sacrifice: Thomas Aquinas on the Eucharist.”

Ryan Catholic Newman Center

Tuesday, Sept. 21

6:00 PM

This lecture is free and open to the public.

About the Speaker:

Fr. Reginald Lynch, O.P. is the Assistant Director of the Thomistic Institute. Born in New Hampshire, Fr. Lynch entered the Dominican Province of St. Joseph in 2007, and was ordained a priest in 2013. After ordination, he served at St. Patrick Parish in Columbus, Ohio and taught at the Pontifical College Josephinum, before going on to complete a PhD in theology at the University of Notre Dame, with a major concentration in medieval theology and minor concentrations in patristics and philosophical theology. He has written on a variety of topics in sacramental, systematic and historical theology in journals like The Thomist and Nova et Vetera. His book, The Cleansing of the Heart: The Sacraments as Instrumental Causes in the Thomistic Tradition (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2017) received the Charles Cardinal Journet Prize in 2018. Currently, He is working on a book on the reception of Aquinas’ Eucharistic theology in the early modern period.