Creeping clericalism which transforms the Eucharist into an almost magical phenomenon.
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Tag: Eucharist
Question about a Roman Rite liturgical practice
The priest uses his own private chalice, and his own paten and host??
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Baptism, Eucharist, and Artistic Tokens of New Heavens and a New Earth
Now in its second decade on the stages of Nashville’s storied Ryman Auditorium and Lipscomb University, the Tokens Show presents lively entertainment as an ongoing “cultural experiment” pulling together Americana, folk, and contemporary music wherein music-making, song-singing, and conversations help imagine a world of beauty and wonder, justice and mercy, peace and graciousness.
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Celebrating the Mass
How do we best welcome and energize people about our Catholic identity and mission without scaring them or watering the whole thing down?
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Book Review: The Wedding Feast of the Lamb
“Nothing is more destructive for the meaning of the liturgy than the mode of bracketing it off, or abstracting it from time–making it belong to no time and certainly not to the continuous present of our ordinary daily lives.”
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What To Do When There is No Mass?
Some options with their pros and cons.
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Things I Like About Eastern Christianity (Part 2)
The Christian East has never known a priestly “private Mass.ˮ
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Review: Speaking With Aquinas, by David Turnbloom
David Turnbloom’s impressive study of how Thomas Aquinas understands the Eucharist to produce it’s effects, and what those effects are, is both an important new work of sacramental theology and an important investigation of how differing theologies can profitably dialogue.
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Seeing Snowfall, Beholding the Mass
Like how the snow loses its beauty to my Midwestern friends, I don’t always see the liturgy as the mysterium tremendum et fascinans.
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Unnecessary Impoverishments: The Psalter/Part 3 (The Communion Procession)
“When we objectify human persons, we limit them unnecessarily, and we also impoverish our own opportunities to come to know them more deeply, thoroughly, and wholly […] how much more is this true when we are speaking of the Word-made-Flesh, made truly and substantially present again in the sacrament?”
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