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April 2023

April 13, 2023

“Drink the Cup” – Liturgy Teaches Us Eucharistic Vocabulary

My parish makes a big deal out of what to call the two forms under...

March 2023

March 14, 2023

Holy Thursday Theology and the Scientific Quest for Jesus in History

And some thoughts for Eucharistic Revival Two books by William R. Herzog II have been...

April 2022

April 11, 2022

Kneeling Through the Communion Rite: Now I Get It

Why do we kneel during the Communion Rite? A small change in liturgical procedure...

May 2020

May 09, 2020

Economic Scarcity and Eucharistic Abundance: Two Stories about the World

Part 7 on Being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire Economy, says William T. Cavanaugh in...

April 2020

April 27, 2020

Thin Places, McDonald’s World, and the Difference the Eucharist Makes

Part 6 on Being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire A few years back a Presbyterian...

April 16, 2020

Father J. P. Grayland on Clerics’ Eucharistic Fast during Pandemic

A New Zealand parish priest has an interesting take on the Church’s liturgical response to...

March 2020

March 02, 2020

Consumer Culture Forms us Morally and Spiritually. So does Eucharist.

Consumer Culture engages powerfully in our moral and spiritual formation. That formation, William T. Cavanaugh...

February 2020

February 10, 2020

The Catholic Altar Call: Communion and Liturgical Wishes

Altar call: A tradition in some evangelical Christian churches in which those who wish to...

January 2020

January 31, 2020

At the Consecration: To Elevate or to Show? Liturgical Wishes, Part 2

In recent years I have seen some priests taking a step backwards to my childhood...

January 26, 2020

Liturgical Wishes, or Things I would Change if I Could: The Tabernacle

I have just completed in several posts a journey through the Mass, getting help from...

December 2019

December 28, 2019

The Communion Rite, the Dangerous Work of the Liturgy

Communion is the most important part of the Mass. I believe that now, but I...

November 2019

November 04, 2019

Liturgical Reform and This Series amid Contrary Views

You can tell from these posts on the Mass that I view the liturgical reform...

August 2019

August 02, 2019

Real Presence, or When is Jesus’ Presence Ever Not Real?

Celebrations of Grace: The Sacraments of the Catholic Church, Part 10 I was walking through...

May 2019

May 22, 2019

The Eucharistic Imagination – Too Big for a Private Space

In Chile, Cavanaugh says, “It should come as no surprise that reception of the Eucharist...

May 20, 2019

Performing the Body of Christ against Torture in Chile

The Church in Chile had confined itself to matters of the soul and the spirit...

May 15, 2019

The Mystical Body and the True Body of Christ

One of my favorite images of the Church, from before the Second Vatican Council, is...

May 13, 2019

A New Christendom Fails to Challenge the State

My last post on Chapter Three of Torture and Eucharist saw William Cavanaugh’s exposition and critique of...

April 2019

April 29, 2019

Torture and Society in Pinochet’s Chile

Chapter One, Part One of Torture and Eucharist by William T. Cavanaugh Torture in Pinochet's Chile did...

April 26, 2019

Torture and Eucharist: Theology, Politics and the Body of Christ, Introduction

It has occurred to me to wonder about Jesus’ suffering during his trial and execution....

April 24, 2019

William T. Cavanaugh, Catholic Theologian, Places Church Firmly in World

Introduction to the Theologian and his Book Torture and Eucharist William T. Cavanaugh is a Catholic...

October 2018

October 03, 2018

Civil Disobedience and the Puzzle that was Thursday: Why did Jesus Turn Himself In?

Jesus enters Jerusalem knowing authorities there wanted to kill him. For about four days he...

October 01, 2018

The Sacrament of Touch: We Touch Jesus’ Body and the Discipleship Story, Though Bruised and Broken, Carries On

Some people are auditory learners, some visual. Some, like me, relate to the world primarily...

August 2018

August 17, 2018

Kneeling, Sitting, Standing, Walking – We Use our Bodies in Catholic Liturgy

A Japanese foreign exchange student went to Sunday Mass with us and gave me most...

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