The Eucharist will live only if we find a way for it to live outside the Mass. (Main Forum)

by Ynot , Sunday, June 10, 2012, 17:43 (349 days ago) @ Francis

Thanks Francis. This opens up the field for reflection and imagination. In short, to find ways to have a eucharistic experience that is not trimmed and boxed as formal liturgy, but which is nevertheless recognisable as a celebration of life as eucharist. Yet the experience needs to be qualitatively distinct from the everyday... Hmmm.

Emily Jendzejec and Geoff Gusoff participate in a vigil to support women religious on May 8 outside the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston. In short, we must find ways for the Eucharist to exist outside the Mass.

Vine Deloria Jr., the late Native American scholar, wrote that “institutions and beliefs are rapidly eroding” in our world and “the religions that depend on the articulation of doctrinal propositions to maintain themselves are doomed to disappear beneath their own silliness. Those religious traditions that depend primarily upon invoking some kind of experience that is qualitatively distinct from everyday feelings will become the vehicles for religious expression in the future.”

In these words, I believe, you have a hint as to where Catholicism could shift if Catholics choose. The religious communities of sisters would be natural leaders in this.

'TonyL
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