Without over-stating the obvious: we live in a period of our collective human history all at once odd, strange, anxious, confusing, stressful, and strikingly electric.
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Tag: Liturgical Assembly
Eucharist in a time of Coronavirus
From Good Friday until the Easter Vigil there is a “Real Absence” of Jesus Christ.
Read moreAre you willing to help?
All in attendance have a stake in the past, present, and future of God’s history with those to whom the church directs its sacramental ministry.
Read moreKinda Incensed Over Incense
I felt reduced to a mere spectator, watching the priest dignify the objects of bread and wine and candle–symbols of the risen crucified one, indeed–but seemingly blind to the dignity of the baptized assembled for the great offering of praise and thanksgiving.
Read moreCommunity as Communio?
“Community is not formed by fellowship, familiar faces, and coffee and doughnuts after Mass; community is formed when all of the congregation lifts up our hearts and voices in praise of God. That is the deep and timeless fellowship that the Mass offers to each of its participants. Through the action of the Mass, the strangers and saints gathered together at Mass become a community.” — Renee Roden
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