{"id":10458,"date":"2011-07-09T06:36:56","date_gmt":"2011-07-09T11:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=10458"},"modified":"2011-07-09T12:00:33","modified_gmt":"2011-07-09T17:00:33","slug":"pope-benedict-on-the-eucharist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/09\/pope-benedict-on-the-eucharist\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Benedict on the Eucharist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is excellent. No &#8220;me and Jesus&#8221; individualistic devotionalism\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/vaticaninsider.lastampa.it\/en\/homepage\/blog-sacri-palazzi-en\/detail\/articolo\/4155\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a culture that is ever more individualistic like that in which Western societies are immersed and which is spreading throughout the world, the Eucharist constitutes a kind of \u201cantidote\u201d, <strong>which operates in the minds and hearts of believers and continually sows in them the logic of communion<\/strong>, of service, of sharing, in a word, the logic of the Gospel.The first Christians, in Jerusalem, were an evident sign of this new way of life <strong>because they lived in fraternity and held all of their goods<\/strong> in common so that no one should be indigent (cf. Acts 2:42-47). Where did all of this come from? From the Eucharist, that is, the risen Christ, really present with his disciples and working with the power of the Holy Spirit. And in the succeeding generations, through the centuries, <strong>the Church, despite human limits and errors, continued to be a force for communion in the world<\/strong>. \u00a0 \u00a0We think especially of the most difficult periods, the periods of trial: <strong>What did it mean, for example, for countries that were under the heal of totalitarian regimes <\/strong>to have the possibility to gather for Sunday Mass! As the ancient martyrs of Abitene proclaimed: &#8220;Sine Dominico non possumus&#8221; \u2013 without the &#8220;Dominicum,&#8221; that is, the Sunday Eucharist, we cannot live.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Thanks to <em>Pray Tell<\/em> reader Tom Poelker for sending it in &#8211; highlighting is his.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">awr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No &#8220;me and Jesus&#8221; individualism here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,28],"tags":[293],"class_list":["post-10458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mass","category-pope-benedict-xvi","tag-communion"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pope Benedict on the Eucharist - Home<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/09\/pope-benedict-on-the-eucharist\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pope Benedict on the Eucharist - Home\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"No &quot;me and Jesus&quot; 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