For many who live in the United States, summer is a time for family fun and vacations. Schools have dismissed children until the fall (or at least until August), the weather is typically more pleasant than in winter and, generally speaking, the lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer bring a measure of rest and relaxation. One of the most sought-after destinations during the warmer months is Hawaii, where golden beaches, crystal-clear waters, and lush landscapes provide the perfect backdrop for an unforgettable getaway.
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For many Roman Catholics in the United States, summer also brings ecclesial decisions about reassigning clergy. Such is the case for me: my pastor is moving on next month to another local assignment. I find myself wondering what it means for a parish when its pastor transitions elsewhere. I wonder what it means for parish liturgical celebrations. In plain words, the show must go on, but theologically more is happening. Paul Griffiths observes that “Mass might begin at 9:15 and end at 10:30 . . . but . . . it participates in a cycle that has neither beginning nor end.”* Sacramental celebrations are always taken up in the Spirit into the one eternal self-offering of the Son to the Father.
This self-offering, in itself beyond categories of time and space, manifests in time and space in the life of Jesus of Nazareth—and supremely in his death and resurrection. From one point of view, the particulars of the liturgical assembly—including the identity of the presider—are not of paramount importance. Yet in time and space it is precisely in and through the particulars of a liturgical assembly that one participates in and encounters the transcendent and eternal self-offering of the Son. From this point of view, the particulars matter a great deal. This is why, for example, Roman liturgical law dating back to Certiores effecti (issued by Pope Benedict XIV in 1742) and up to the current General Instruction of the Roman Missal (in #85) strongly encourages the practice of providing communion to the assembly from elements consecrated at the Mass at which that assembly is present. Though all Masses involve the one self-offering of Christ, this Mass involves the self-offering of this assembly and it is this self-offering that is joined to Christ’s offering. Making recourse to the tabernacle during Mass undercuts this important principle.
In any case, the show goes on with a new pastor. From one point of view, it is the same show. From another point of view, it is different. Yet even if an assembly is identical from week to week, the celebration differs because since the last gathering those in the assembly (pastor included) have accepted and declined God’s offer of grace in ways different from the week before. There is in fact no “identical” assembly from week to week.
These words may bring only small comfort to those whose kind and wise pastor is taking on a new assignment elsewhere. Even so, if the cycle of worship has no beginning or end then the Eucharistic assemblies over which the pastor presides elsewhere are intrinsically connected to all Eucharistic assemblies everywhere, including the assembly over which he no longer presides.
* Paul J. Griffiths, Decreation: The Last Things of All Creatures (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2014): 100: