August 25, 2020
Our mystagogical journey through the ‘Liturgy of the Eucharist’ has taken many weeks. Taking time is good. It gives us space to reflect more deeply on our focus question: Do we participate in the celebration of Eucharist as celebrants or consumers? Today our focus is Communion. Potentially, alas, the ultimate consumerist moment.
August 10, 2020
Last week I invited you to join in a conversation reflecting on our experience of liturgical disruption caused by COVID-19. This week, as an interlude before we move to Part 6 of our reflection on whether we celebrants or consumers, I invite you to listen to that conversation. It’s always good to listen widely.
August 04, 2020
You are invited to participate in an international conversation “Can you send an apple by email?” with Professor Thomas O’Loughlin, Emeritus Professor of Historical Theology at the University of Nottingham, UK.
July 28, 2020
Well we’ve made it to the Fraction Rite! We’ve taken bread and wine. We’ve blessed bread and wine. And now it is time for the bread to be broken and the wine poured out for the life of the world. What do we think we are doing when we celebrate ‘The Fraction Rite’? Are we celebrants or consumers? The answer matters.
July 14, 2020
Four weeks ago, prompted by our COVID 19 experience, we began to reflect on our understanding of what we think we are doing when we celebrate ‘The Liturgy of the Eucharist’ at Mass. Are we celebrants or consumers? The answer matters. Today we turn our attention to what the church refers to as ‘the centre and high point of the entire celebration, namely Eucharistic Prayer.’ (GIRM a. 78)
June 30, 2020
Today we continue our reflection on what we think we are doing in the ‘Liturgy of the Eucharist’. We are driven by the question emerging in our COVID-19 experience: are we celebrants or consumers? So gather in your reflections from the first and second articles in this series and let us proceed, focusing today on the first of the four-part eucharistic action: the preparation of the gifts.
