{"id":60606,"date":"2022-08-29T01:15:17","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T06:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=60606"},"modified":"2022-09-05T01:49:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T06:49:00","slug":"one-flock-walking-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/29\/one-flock-walking-together\/","title":{"rendered":"One Flock, Walking Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his fine book <em>Singular Vessel of Devotion: The Sacramental Body at Prayer<\/em>, Paul Janowiak offers comments on liturgical processions. Quoting Antonio Donghi, he writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The liturgical celebration involves processional gestures, for the procession of the people of God and the ministers parallels our continuous walk toward the eternal pastures of the kingdom.\u00a0 In this gesture, we proclaim that we have here no fixed home, that we do not depend on any stability, since we know that life in all its meaning and relationships moves ever forward, that life is always in motion.*<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-60610 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Palm_Sunday_procession_in_Tskhinvali_3-600x400.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"331\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Palm_Sunday_procession_in_Tskhinvali_3-600x400.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Palm_Sunday_procession_in_Tskhinvali_3-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Palm_Sunday_procession_in_Tskhinvali_3-768x513.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Palm_Sunday_procession_in_Tskhinvali_3-420x280.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Palm_Sunday_procession_in_Tskhinvali_3.jpeg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 331px) 100vw, 331px\" \/>Janowiak provides examples of processions: with palms on Palm Sunday, bringing the Blessed Sacrament to an altar of repose on Holy Thursday evening, entering the church building behind the Paschal Candle at the start of the Easter Vigil, and coming forward for communion at that Vigil and indeed every Mass. He then observes, \u201cProcessing in a contemporary Western culture with its sense of individuality is not easy.\u201d**<\/p>\n<p>In 1935, long before the appearance of Janowiak\u2019s book, Virgil Michel lamented individualism in liturgical life:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When we receive Communion we may be inclined to think of it as Christ coming into our hearts and becoming our own exclusive possession, and we think <span style=\"font-size: 1.125rem;\">with gratitude of the infinite Christ confining Himself within the limits of our small heart. When twenty persons receive Communion at Mass and go back to their separate pews, this would almost imply that there were now twenty Christs among the pews.***<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-60607 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/PrayTell-83-image-A-600x390.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/PrayTell-83-image-A-600x390.jpg 600w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/PrayTell-83-image-A-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/PrayTell-83-image-A.jpg 749w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 328px) 100vw, 328px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Michel immediately adds: \u201cWe know, of course, that this is not the Catholic doctrine. When twenty or more individuals receive Communion they have all been intimately united to one and the same sacramental Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Benedict XVI makes a similar point in his Encyclical Letter <em>Deus Caritas Est<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Union with Christ is also union with all those to whom he gives himself. I cannot possess Christ just for myself; I can belong to him only in union with all those who have become, or who will become, his own. Communion draws me out of myself towards him, and thus also towards unity with all Christians. We become \u201cone body,\u201d <em><strong>completely joined in a single existence<\/strong><\/em>. Love of God and love of neighbor are now truly united: God incarnate draws us all to himself.***<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In light of these reflections, I wonder. When I join a communion procession, do I engage in this action as though I were a customer in line at a supermarket or an amusement park? Is it simply a matter of waiting for my turn behind people who are so inconveniently ahead of me? Do I take seriously the idea that the pilgrim church is a pilgrim <em>church<\/em> (see Eucharistic Prayer III) and not a mere aggregate of individual pilgrims?<\/p>\n<p>Janowiak turns to an address given by Pope Francis in 2013:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I think this is truly the most wonderful experience we can have: to belong to a people walking, journeying through history together with their Lord who walks among us! We are not alone, we do not walk alone. We are part of the one flock of Christ that walks together.*****<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Would that I could keep Francis\u2019s words in mind when I am processing. The opening words of Eucharistic Prayer for Various Needs I also bear mentioning:<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">You are indeed Holy and to be glorified, O God,<br \/>\nwho love the human race<br \/>\nand who always walk with us on the journey of life.<\/h3>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>* Antonio Donghi, <em>Words and Gestures in the Liturgy<\/em> [Ital. ed., Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1991] (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2009) 52 quoted in Paul Janowiak, <em>Singular Vessel of Devotion: The Sacramental Body at Prayer<\/em> (New York: Paulist Press, 2021), 65.<\/p>\n<p>** Paul Janowiak, <em>Singular Vessel of Devotion<\/em>, 66.<\/p>\n<p>*** Virgil Michel, \u201cThe Liturgy: The Basis of Social Regeneration,\u201d <em>Orate Fratres<\/em> 9 (1935): 536-45 at 542<\/p>\n<p>****<em> Deus Caritas Est<\/em> 14, emphasis added.<\/p>\n<p>***** Address of Pope Francis, Cathedral of San Rufino, Assisi, Friday, 4 October 2013 quoted in Janowiak, <em>Singular Vessel of Devotion<\/em>, 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