Word: euchariste
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...beyond the rote recitation of childhood formulas: veteran confessors recall adults as old as 65 who still confessed to disobeying their parents, even after the parents were dead. Even those who grew into a healthier understanding of the sacrament often consciously tied it to the sacrament of the Eucharist, feeling unworthy to receive Communion without confession (which is required only once a year, for those in serious sin). Explains the chancellor of a California diocese: "It was a case of too much, too soon...
...number of bishops in the U.S. and Canada adopted the innovation during the late 1960s. First Communion continued to be given at about the age of seven, or even earlier, when the child could understand the difference between ordinary bread and the sacred bread of the Eucharist. Confession, on the other hand, was introduced later, with more extended preparation; most children involved in such experimental programs did not make their first confession before the age of nine. The practice was well established in 1971 when U.S. bishops asked for, and got, Vatican approval for a two-year experiment...
...Augsburg Publishing House and Paulist Press in September, is a part of an eight-year-old, officially sanctioned dialogue between Lutherans and Roman Catholics over issues that divide the two communions. The talks have already produced documents on Lutheran and Roman Catholic approaches to the Nicene Creed, baptism, the Eucharist and priestly ministry, all of which show remarkable basic agreement. The study on Peter, along with an examination of the development of the papacy in early church history, will provide background for the next major document, on the primacy and authority of the Pope...
...first it seemed ghoulish to me, sitting there in a hole in the ground eating a dead man's Almond Kisses. But none of Doc's buddies thought of it that way. For them the cellophane-wrapped candy was a Eucharist. It was Doc. And in a way, he was Still with them...
...certain that the men on the mountainside had sinned by eating the flesh of their dead companions. By and large, Roman Catholic moral theologians agreed that the act was justified under the circumstances. A few perhaps extravagantly, even likened the situation to the central act of the Eucharist, where the faithful consume the body and blood of Christ under the species of bread and wine...