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...This is the basic structure of the Eucharist . . . None of the devotional exercises which seem such an important part of our service were there. The congregation and priests of those days were perfectly ordinary people-they weren't picturesque-who slipped in secret through the streets in the early morning. Each brought a piece of bread and some wine...
...Corpus Christi Day last week, 3,000 people assembled before Budapest's venerable old Coronation Church for the traditional procession in which Joseph Peteri, bishop of Vacz, was to carry the Eucharist. But there proved to be some obstacles...
...impressive all right; but ... it seems more like a social club." There are many such rich parishes, writes Bell, in which Christ is genteelly revered and His upsetting utterances muffled. "The vulgarity of the Gospels is concealed by the quaintness of the King James version; the dynamite of the Eucharist is replaced by the easier formalities of morning prayer; the sermons are not disturbing of complacency-the vestries see to that-and few are the clergy who even wish to rebel; the benevolences are set to remedial rather than reformative good works...
...Catholics who frequent St. Benedict's Center, or who in any way take part in or assist its activities forfeit the right to receive the sacraments of penance and Holy Eucharist...
Held under the auspices of Episcopalianism's conservative American Church Union, the ceremony highlighted the first of nine eucharistic congresses being held this week throughout the U.S. (The oth ers: in Cleveland, Evanston, 111., Fond du Lac, Wis., Milwaukee, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle.) In the U.S. for the eucharistic congresses were five of Britain's top divines the Primus of Scotland, Ireland's Bishop of Derry and Raphoe, and the Bishops of London, Oxford, and Bath & Wells. At St. John's Solemn Eucharist of Thanks giving last week there were 19 other Epis...