Word: euchariste
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...take exception to Sullivan's hopelessness for the inclusion of Catholic females in the modern church. I have a fulfilling high-profile job, and I also have a rewarding role in the church. I speak to our parish from the pulpit; I assist each week in serving the Holy Eucharist. Much precious energy is wasted by women fighting to become a priest. They could, instead, use that same energy to do most of the things that a priest does. What is wrong with a few positions in the world belonging exclusively to one sex? Only women give birth to children...
...razor-sharp curiosity might have carried her into a career in journalism. Or perhaps as a spruiker for L'Osservatore Romano. "Are you familiar with that?" she asks. "Oh, it's a great mag. The Holy Father's just put out an encyclical on the Eucharist...
According to his father, he was also a very committed Christian and a lay Eucharist minister in the Catholic Church...
...altar boy, into the sacristy where the priest vested himself. I felt as if I were entering the most sacred place on Earth. The smell of incense, the touch of candle wax, the overly starched cotton of my surplice as I knelt before the sacred mystery of the Eucharist: in the words of the poet Philip Larkin, "a serious house on serious earth" this was, a refuge and a beacon, a rebuke to the chatter and trivia and destabilizing noise of the world outside and beyond. And the knowledge that these rituals, these words, these miracles, had been going...
...experiment that is gaining popularity among a range of Catholic communities, some schools and parishes have established corporations to give themselves complete independence, even from their regional diocese. In 1997, for instance, a group of Dominican nuns founded the Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist convent in Ann Arbor, Mich., which has expanded to include four local schools and two in Honduras. Sisters of Mary is incorporated and run by a lay board of directors. Its financial affairs are directed by a Virginia-based private investment group that primarily focuses its efforts on sustaining small nonprofit organizations. "You have...