Category: Eucharist
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Reflection on Kindness
Leo’s kindness reminded me of the Eucharist.
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Bread for the Eucharist
In a post, I published last week, I dealt with the problem of using a big host as opposed to the exceptional small precut hosts (which I reckon make up well over 99.9% of how Catholics receive Communion). While it must be admitted that these hosts have become more breadlike over the last decades, bigger…
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Calling all Geometricians
Prior to Vatican II there was little emphasis on the breaking of the Eucharistic Bread.
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Worship and Wildfires
Does our worship turn wine country into wildfire country?
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Is the Eucharistic Revival a Liturgical Revival (Part 2)
My fundamental concern remains unchanged.
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Non-Celebrating Priests as Ministers of Communion
Each Sunday…a number of priests wearing cassocks, surplices, and stoles swoop into the sanctuary from various doors in order to distribute communion.
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In This Issue: Ex Fonte 1 (2022)
Features explore ḥūḏrā of the Assyrian Church of the East, Carthusian stole practice as a potential model for women in the diaconate, the funerary rituals of E II R, and much more!
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Fed from the Table
Many of my presbyter friends think that I am crazy to affirm the importance of this primary symbol of eating Communion from the altar at the Eucharist. They say it is impossible. Now I can say from experience that it is possible.
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Brief Book Review: The Art of Gathering
“The author’s commentary can open up the reader’s thinking about ways in which we’ve made this holy meal into something mundane and meaningless by obsessing over efficiency, hygiene, or narrow theological thinking.”