I felt somewhat glad on behalf of the various Roman Catholics I’d encountered (in person or on social media) who had absolutely no idea that this eucharistic revival was underway, much less what it was, who may have endured similar situations.
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Celebration of the Eucharist. Devotion to the Eucharist. Which is better? What were we doing right now?!?
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Eating and drinking eucharistically, without concern for the lived experience of the most vulnerable calls into question the directive to “Go in peace, glorifying the Lord by your life.”
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Liturgical hopefulness does not look for some other world to which we can “fly away” as this one burns
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Can you think of a social issue which hasn’t been trussed into silence by strangles of red and blue?
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People, what are we doing? Whom are we kidding? The Body of Christ is real, but so is the Coronavirus.
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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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From Good Friday until the Easter Vigil there is a “Real Absence” of Jesus Christ.
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Creeping clericalism which transforms the Eucharist into an almost magical phenomenon.
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The priest uses his own private chalice, and his own paten and host??
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