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...EUCHARIST. In recent years, some Catholic thinkers-primarily the Dutch -have questioned their church's difficult doctrine of transubstantiation- that the wafer and wine of the Mass are mystically changed into Christ's true body and blood. They have suggested, instead, a doctrine of "transignification," which argues that the change does not take place in the substance of the bread and wine but in the meaning. Pope Paul reaffirmed the literal interpretation, concluding: "In the reality itself, independently of our mind, the bread and wine have ceased to exist after the consecration, so that they are the adorable...
Important for both Christian and Jewish history, however, is the similarity between the Essene rights and early Christian rituals. The Essenes had a sacramental meal which included the eating of the "feast of leviathan" and closely parallels the Lord's supper and the Eucharist rite. Even the symbol of the rite--a fish--is the same for both groups. Essenes and Christians both called themselves the "People of the New Covenant," thus the scrolls not only explain the Old Testament, but provide insight into...
Simple and sincere, the informal Eucharist was identical to countless others celebrated by the Christian Layman's Experimental Organization, a group of thoughtful Roman Catholics in New Jer sey, who gather regularly to study, pray and worship. How long they will remain Catholics in good standing is now problematical: this month Bishop George W. Ahr of Trenton stripped the organization's priest-adviser, Father George Hafner, of his right to say Mass and hear confessions, and threatened him with excommunication for conducting illegal worship services. Hafner has vowed to carry on as spiritual guide to CLEO. Says Hafner...
Despite all such talk, little real advance has been made on such basic doctrinal differences as baptism, mixed marriage or the Eucharist. Still, says Dr. Blake, "the important thing is that both sides have gotten over the fear of discussing the issue of formal ties with the Vatican...
...collective guilt in which each human being participates. The catechism adds, "We need not attach particular significance to a 'first sin' since the fact that man sins today is more important." In addition, the conservatives say that the new catechism contravenes official church teaching on the Eucharist, birth control, man's soul, and the existence of angels...