Category: eucharist
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Becoming God’s Friends
The writer recounts his experience at St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church, sharing his deep devotion to the Eucharist and the transformative impact it had on his vocational walk. He reflects on the significance of giving communion by name, consuming remainders, and baking bread, emphasizing his belief in the Real Presence of Christ.
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Unfolding in Time
The Assignment: this is my final for Eucharistic Theology with Fr Dennis McManus. We were given a set of questions, from which pick one. The selected the option is take an image of the Eucharist in the pre-Incarnation scriptures and show how it was fulfilled in the Life of Jesus. We were required to use…
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Lifting Holy Hands
The Hebrew word לֵהוֹדוֹת (leh-hoh-doht) simultaneously conveys the concepts of “to thank” and “to confess.” In a Christian context, this suggests a profound link between confessing sins and thanking God during the Liturgy.
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Source : Summit :: Author : Finisher?
WE USE A VERBAL IMAGE describing the liturgy as “heaven striking earth”. It usually gets used in discussions of “beauty” in Church, sometimes in defense of liturgical practices like incense or vestments. The first time Ukrainians came to Constantinople from Kyiv, they visited a liturgy at Hagia Sophia and reported they “did not know whether…
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Emanentizing the Eschaton
ALTHOUGH WE IN this world experience time as a progression of moments God’s eternity is such that all moments are present in an eternal now. Although philosophers and theologians try to discern how it is that we humans will experience eternity, it seems that for the Divine Eternity there is a way in which one’s…
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A Month of Typica
OUR Byzantine Catholic Parish has one priest assigned plus three others who help out from time to time. By an untimely coincidence of schedules, we are in the midst of 3 weeks without a priest to serve the Divine Liturgy. This week, in fact, we had no Deacon as well. There’s a conference in Vienna.…
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Yes: Time. Again.
EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE my WordPress stats will indicate a very old post (today, from 2015) and I’ll discover that I’m not thinking anything new to me – but rather that I’ve been chewing on the same cud for most of the last 25 years. The whole recent string starting with mists and ending…
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The Echo Here is Amazing
YOUR HOST HAS NOTED elsewhere that in studying Hebrew at CitizenCafe Tel Aviv, he gets exposed to a lot of Israeli pop culture. Listening to modern, secular folks discuss Hebrew – or speak or sing in Hebrew – carries with it these echoes of the Tanakh. It cannot but just as much modern English carries…
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Whose Side Are You On?
YOU HAVE TO ADMIT THAT life seems to be polarizing right now: socially, politically, and religiously. Everyone needs to be on a side and you’d better be on the right side as well. Generally, of course, the right side is my side. We are seeing this in all areas: if you don’t agree with me,…
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From Before Time
When next you approach Our Lord in the Holy Eucharist, drawing near to the chalice in faith and love, kneeling at the rail, or coming to the front of line; when you receive from the Priest, Deacon, or Eucharistic Minister the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of the God-Man, Jesus, born of Mary and descended…
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Undivided
JMJ We are often told that we should not do so, yet we often think of communion as a series of discrete incidents through the course of our lives. We think of this time I take communion. We think of that particle on the spoon from the sacred chalice, or of that host and this…
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