Tag: Eucharist
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Book Review: The Wedding Feast of the Lamb
“Nothing is more destructive for the meaning of the liturgy than the mode of bracketing it off, or abstracting it from time–making it belong to no time and certainly not to the continuous present of our ordinary daily lives.”
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What To Do When There is No Mass?
Some options with their pros and cons.
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Things I Like About Eastern Christianity (Part 2)
The Christian East has never known a priestly “private Mass.ˮ
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Review: Speaking With Aquinas, by David Turnbloom
David Turnbloom’s impressive study of how Thomas Aquinas understands the Eucharist to produce it’s effects, and what those effects are, is both an important new work of sacramental theology and an important investigation of how differing theologies can profitably dialogue.
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Seeing Snowfall, Beholding the Mass
Like how the snow loses its beauty to my Midwestern friends, I don’t always see the liturgy as the mysterium tremendum et fascinans.
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Unnecessary Impoverishments: The Psalter/Part 3 (The Communion Procession)
“When we objectify human persons, we limit them unnecessarily, and we also impoverish our own opportunities to come to know them more deeply, thoroughly, and wholly […] how much more is this true when we are speaking of the Word-made-Flesh, made truly and substantially present again in the sacrament?”
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New Book from Mike Joncas
My illness changed my understanding of Anointing, the Eucharist, and my daily prayer.
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“The Last Supper Was No Breakfast,” But What Is the Right Time for the Eucharist?
Why the hours of the rising sun are the best time for Eucharist.
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Holding Eucharist as Central
By all means, let us look again at power and authority in the Church, and consider ways to reform its use and avoid abuses. But not by relinquishing the real strength of our tradition, which holds Eucharist as central.