Following the promulgation of their 2021 document, The Mystery of the Eucharist in the Life of the Church, the Bishops of the United States have called for a national Eucharistic revival. Culminating three years of “grassroots revival of devotion and belief in the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist,” a national Eucharistic Congress will take place in 2024—the first of its kind in nearly 50 years. The Bishops “believe that God wants to see 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.’”

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 invites papers for their co-sponsored conference on Thomas Aquinas and the Eucharist: Pathways to Revival. The conference will take place in Ave Maria, Florida on February 1-3, 2024. This conference will draw upon Saint Thomas for theological, spiritual, pastoral, and evangelistic pathways in the Eucharistic Revival.

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