Tag: Eucharist
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Climate Despair and Liturgical Hopefulness
Liturgical hopefulness does not look for some other world to which we can “fly away” as this one burns
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A Timely Tract…on Social Injustices
Can you think of a social issue which hasn’t been trussed into silence by strangles of red and blue?
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Become What You Receive—just please don’t receive right now
People, what are we doing? Whom are we kidding? The Body of Christ is real, but so is the Coronavirus.
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The Alarming Consequences of Communion
Without over-stating the obvious: we live in a period of our collective human history all at once odd, strange, anxious, confusing, stressful, and strikingly electric. First, a virulent microbe continues to resist being contained. Second, compounding the presence and impact of said microbe, is the acutely tragic realization of our ignorance of the all too…
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Eucharist in a time of Coronavirus
From Good Friday until the Easter Vigil there is a “Real Absence” of Jesus Christ.
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Eucharistic Problems and Concelebrating Clergy
Creeping clericalism which transforms the Eucharist into an almost magical phenomenon.
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Question about a Roman Rite liturgical practice
The priest uses his own private chalice, and his own paten and host??
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Baptism, Eucharist, and Artistic Tokens of New Heavens and a New Earth
Now in its second decade on the stages of Nashville’s storied Ryman Auditorium and Lipscomb University, the Tokens Show presents lively entertainment as an ongoing “cultural experiment” pulling together Americana, folk, and contemporary music wherein music-making, song-singing, and conversations help imagine a world of beauty and wonder, justice and mercy, peace and graciousness.
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Celebrating the Mass
How do we best welcome and energize people about our Catholic identity and mission without scaring them or watering the whole thing down?