Eucharist
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Eucharist is a verb before it’s a noun
Celebration, not just consecration, sits at the center of this theologian’s rethinking of what happens at Mass. A priest’s authority to act “in the person of Christ” is inseparable from acting in the person of the whole Church.
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The real presence that walks out the church doors
Encountering Christ at the altar is meant to send believers toward the poor and marginalised in daily life.
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What’s a Cathedral for?
Understanding a cathedral without grasping worship is like admiring an airport without understanding flight or its purpose.
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Theological literacy – more than a digital download
Christian theology means trained reflection on faith and practice, not memorized facts, and that skill belongs to more than clergy alone.
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The Tabernacle is the message
Faithful should receive hosts from the same Mass — yet it rarely happens anymore.
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Kneelers to circles: Berlin reimagines the liturgy
“Recent editions of Flashes have discussed the virtues of standing rather than kneeling during the liturgy. We’ve had ‘Restoring kneelers!’ (23 June), ‘When kneeling divides rather than unites’ (30 June), and ‘Standing to pray: sign of a priestly people’ (7 July). The authors all want us to stand before God.”
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Synodality’s promise meets hierarchical pushback
A church in crisis responds saying no to a genuine need and recommends more kneeling.
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Standing to pray: sign of a priestly people
Vatican II’s actuosa participatio means the entire gathering celebrates, a priestly people with a presbyter presiding rather than a priest set apart from a people.
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When kneeling divides rather than unites
“Let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker!” The title of the pastoral letter by Sydney’s Archbishop Anthony Fisher, taken from Psalm 95, already hints at its content: the cleric wants to promote the importance of kneeling once again in his archdiocese. The Innsbruck liturgical scholar Liborius Olaf Lumma studies bodily postures in the liturgy.…
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Restoring kneelers!
Sydney clergy must now restore kneelers everywhere, treating contested history as fact and recasting decades of reverent standing as a deficiency.
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