As priest, my starting point for anyone who asks Communion of me is that they do so with a pure heart.
Archive for July 9th, 2012
The post on the interview with Cardinal Burke has garnered something like a bazillion comments, and I don’t want to stop that discussion, but I did want to have a slightly more focused discussion on one of his specific suggestions: restoring/inserting the “prayers at the foot of the altar.”
I submit that it is high time to think through these liturgical practices at a deeper level than by simply claiming that online liturgies are not really “liturgy” because people are not bodily present to each other.