This second installment aims at providing yet more background from the Council of Trent about communion under both signs. Future installments will then focus on my proposals for answers to the chief question I am posing: What are the most likely meanings of receiving the whole Christ under the sign of wine?
Archive for category Sacramental Theology
Thanks to Brian Duffy’s post and reference on Pray Tell, I have delved into the debates at the 21st session of the Council of Trent, particularly the work of William Edward Scudamore.
I’ve been wondering what Pope Saint Pius X might say to his brother bishops in Phoenix and Madison about their sacramental theology. All of us who are caught up in the controversy over restricting access to the chalice might do well to revisit the entire text of Pius’s immensely liberating document, Sacra Tridentina.
Bishop Olmsted of Phoenix Diocese is withdrawing permission for Communion under both forms at nearly all Masses.
Symbolic loss
Aug 5
I found my wedding ring today about noon.
The National Catholic Register has interviewed Bishop Aquila to shed some light on the topic of “restored order” for the sacraments of initiation.
Clearly it was a parish where some thought had been put into the liturgy and how to make it more “traditional.” The question is, have they been thinking about the right things?
With all that baptism promises, why wouldn’t one want it to be a party?
Robert Nugent argues that for teens to appreciate the value of sacramental confession, we need to clearly ritualize its connection to the larger community and engage their sense of sin as injuring relationships, rather that disobeying individual (often half-understood) laws.
For those that are dying to know where I stand. . .