Eucharist
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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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Sacramentality of sharing meals
Food is far more than fuel for survival — it is central to how we celebrate, connect and flourish together. Yet millions of people, including children, still go to bed hungry every night despite decades of global commitments. The Pope’s May 2026 prayer intention lays bare this scandal and calls on all believers to move…
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Fake symbols lead to fake worship?
Bread is baked. Wafer is boiled. No one would serve a communion host alongside soup at a dinner table. The gap between what we call ‘bread’ and what we actually use reveals how far convenience has drifted from the gospel’s original gesture.
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Catholics and other Christians thanking God together: has the time come to change our practice?
When Pope Francis visited Rome’s Lutheran church in 2015, he reframed the Eucharist not as a doctrinal reward but as sustenance for a pilgrim people. That shift in language was small but significant, opening theological space that had been closed for decades under two conservative popes.
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