Category: Eucharist
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World Day of the Poor 2023
Facing Christ in anyone who is poor “Do not turn your face away from anyone who is poor” (Tobit 4:7). Pope Francis chose this theme for the seventh annual World Day of the Poor, observed on November 19, 2023, the Sunday before the Solemnity of Christ the King. The parish to which I belong is…
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Drink from It, All of You: Recovering of the Chalice Communion
Who should want to do without one of them or might withhold them from others?
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Euchological Insights from 1983
If I am reading the information provided in the “Foreword” to the document correctly, the proper Preface of the Eucharistic Prayer provided for use at an anointing Mass was newly composed for the USA edition.
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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.