Category: Eucharist
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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.”
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Days of Prayer
Last Sunday was observed as Mission Sunday. Yet this is not, strictly speaking, a liturgical observance. I have often seen observances such as this take center stage at Sunday liturgies in parishes and I have always felt that this was wrong. (I have nothing in particular against Mission Sunday, I only give it as a…
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Amen Corner: The Fijian Meal Tradition
Could aspects of Fijian cultural meals be incorporated into the church’s eucharistic tradition?
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Longing to Belong
Recently, I returned to in-person worship.
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Brief Book Review: Why Can’t Church Be More Like An AA Meeting?
“The basic dynamics of AA meetings are set forth as those which could be utilized by Christian communities to encourage and continue to promote healthy community and interpersonal relationships.”
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Take and Eat
If we truly believe that the Eucharist is the source and summit, and our spiritual food for the work of discipleship, then we should not be putting obstacles in the way of people receiving it.