Word: euchariste
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...Eucharist Rally (Sun. 3:30 p.m., CBS-TV). Francis Cardinal Spellman presiding...
...Roman Catholic Church is perfectly correct in making immortality its central doctrine, as the primary reason for Our Lord's Incarnation, and in centering its worship upon the Eucharist, the "medicine of immortality." That is the correct Catholic instinct, fulfilling what, from my psychological studies, I have concluded is the primary instinct of man-the desire for immortality, that hope which is behind all the myths...
More than 30 persons--a number of them Harvard students--gathered last night at the St. Benedict (Catholic) Conter on Arrow Street despite Archbishop Richard J. Cushing's day-old decree with-drawing the Sacraments of Penance and Holy Eucharist from "any Catholics who frequent" the Center or who". . . in any way take part in or assist its activities...
...Heave It Higher." In his scholarly study of the Eucharist, The Shape of the Liturgy (Dacre Press, London, 1945), Liturgist Dom Gregory Dix writes of a trend that came after the 4th Century. Multiplication of churches began to spread the clergy thin, and led to the short, popular "low Mass" performed by one priest alone, in which the congregation took little part. A notion also arose that the Communion was only for those whose lives were almost sinless. As a result of these and other factors, says Dix, the Communion came to be looked upon more & more as a rite...
According to Anglican Dix, this attitude carried over into Protestantism. When the Reformers set up their own forms of the Eucharist, he says, they "took as their model . . . not the primitive corporate action with its movement and singing, but the medieval Western development of low Mass-the 'simple said service' performed by a single minister, at which the people had only to look and listen and silently pray...