Speaker Focus

Dr. Timothy O’Malley

Timothy P. O’Malley, Ph.D. is Director of Education at the McGrath Institute for Church Life, University of Notre Dame. He also serves as the Academic Director of the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy, in addition to having a coherent appointment in Notre Dame’s Department of Theology. He teaches and researches in the areas of liturgical-sacramental theology, catechetics, and theological aesthetics. He is the author of nine books, most recently Real Presence: What Does It Mean and Why Does It Matter? (Ave Maria Press, 2021) and Becoming Eucharistic People: The Hope and Promise of Parish Life (Ave Maria Press, 2022). Dr. O’Malley also serves on the executive committee of the USCCB’s Eucharistic Revival.  

Dr. O’Malley will be speaking in our English track, with Vietnamese and ASL translation available.

Talk title and description:

Becoming Eucharistic People: The Call to Communion with the Eucharistic Lord

If you talk to people on the way out the door, they often wonder why they really need the Church in their lives. In this talk, we will think about the gift of the Church as a space where we are called to communion with Jesus Christ and with one another. It is this communion of love shared in the Church, which is an unimaginable source of happiness: the kind of happiness that you want to share unto the ends of the world.