Jun 30, 2026 · 30 min · 12 segments
In this episode of Grace Abounds, we sit down with Sr Susanna Edmunds OP, a former biomedical engineering student who traded the lab for the convent after meeting Christ in the Eucharist with new…
Susanna EdmundsGuestDarrenHostDaniel AngHostSister, the theme chosen by Pope Leo for Eucharist 28 is, this is my body given for you.
formation.
You've described the Eucharist as something more than a familiar ritual, a real and living encounter.
What does it mean for those words to actually land? What does it look like when a Catholic truly receives them?
I can certainly speak from my own experience that moving from a faith of childhood, which I sort of received the faith from my parents and received the Eucharist faithfully every Sunday, that at a certain point when I was able to be open with sort of an adult maturity to that great gift of the Lord, it called for a response.
And that actually was a big part even of my own sense of calling, both just in the lay life with the church at university, realising that I had received this great gift of faith and that I was receiving Jesus' body, blood, soul and divinity every time I went to Mass.
This wasn't just like eating, you know, bananas and yogurt for breakfast to get your energy for the day.
This was being transformed into the very charity of God, the life of the Trinity, and that that came with a mission.
That mission continues.
Sister, the theme chosen by Pope Leo for Eucharist 28 is, this is my body given for you.
formation.
You've described the Eucharist as something more than a familiar ritual, a real and living encounter.
What does it mean for those words to actually land? What does it look like when a Catholic truly receives them?
I can certainly speak from my own experience that moving from a faith of childhood, which I sort of received the faith from my parents and received the Eucharist faithfully every Sunday, that at a certain point when I was able to be open with sort of an adult maturity to that great gift of the Lord, it called for a response.
And that actually was a big part even of my own sense of calling, both just in the lay life with the church at university, realising that I had received this great gift of faith and that I was receiving Jesus' body, blood, soul and divinity every time I went to Mass.
This wasn't just like eating, you know, bananas and yogurt for breakfast to get your energy for the day.
This was being transformed into the very charity of God, the life of the Trinity, and that that came with a mission.
That mission continues.
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