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In an extremely important commentary on the draft of the U.S. Catholic bishops\u2019 proposed new document on the Eucharist<\/a> in the National Catholic Reporter,<\/em> highly respected liturgical expert Msgr. Kevin Irwin says that the document \u201creads as if it could\"\"<\/a> have been created before the Second Vatican Council.\u201d Irwin taught at the Catholic University of America and is the author of several significant books on liturgy, sacraments, and the environment.<\/p>\n

Irwin wryly notes that the proposed title of the bishops\u2019 document, \u201cThe Mystery of the Eucharist in the Life of the Church\u201d would more accurately be \u201cThe Mystery of the Sacrificial Presence of Christ in the Eucharistic Species.\u201d<\/p>\n

Defending sacrifice and real presence were primary concerns of the sixteenth-century Council of Trent, reflecting a certain defensiveness over against Protestant reformers.<\/p>\n

While those doctrines are of course fundamental to Catholic sacramental theology, the Second Vatican Council drew on the preceding decades of theological renewal so as to retrieve a fuller \u2013 actually more traditional \u2013 understanding of the eucharistic mystery as the broader context for them.<\/p>\n

Irwin charges that the draft document \u201cis framed in a Tridentine framework, not a Vatican II framework.\u201d<\/p>\n

Missing, according to Irwin, are the richly multiple terms retrieved by Vatican II to name the Eucharist. Missing is any reference to the two parts of the Mass \u2013 Word and Eucharist \u2013 which according to the Council make up one act of worship. The document\u2019s silence on the need for communal gathering in an individualistic and fractured society \u201cleads to a pious individualism,\u201d he writes.<\/p>\n

Unmentioned is any reference to the multiple presences of Christ in the liturgical assembly – a key teaching of the Second Vatican Council.<\/p>\n

The inclusion of eucharistic miracles in the document, according to Irwin, could lead a physical, rather than sacramental, understanding of the Eucharist. This understanding would actually be \u201cheretical.\u201d<\/p>\n

Irwin concludes: \u201cPerhaps it would be better for the bishops during their Nov. 15-18 meeting to decide to hire a new team of writers, with the hope of having a different draft of this text to review by next spring.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read Msgr. Irwin’s entire commentary here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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