Word: eucharistic
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These concessions to Catholicism are only part of Gorbachev's religious liberalization. Television is broadcasting worship services, and religious art is openly displayed. Last month the Orthodox Eucharist was celebrated in the 15th century Assumption Cathedral, inside the Kremlin, for the first time since...
Lest we, as the "youth" he addresses, assume that Professor Blumenthal has emerged from the perfectly passionate, if otherwise imperfect 1960s with a ready quotation and an even readier generalization, or that Professor Blumenthal stands ready to receive the eucharist of a "devoted, consuming,...human" love, I suggest we understand what his argument represents...
...Thomas Aquinas kneels in prayer, is like a visual gloss on his own syllogisms. An educated Sienese would have known that Aquinas had the habit of praying before he wrote. In another panel Sassetta showed Aquinas asking Christ what he thought of his book on the nature of the Eucharist, and receiving the approval of the Supreme Editor. The Sienese sophisticate would also have connected the well visible in the courtyard with the sacrament of baptism, and the cloister itself with the Earthly Paradise. For a modern viewer it is the exquisitely ordered space that counts, those intricacies of dull...
...great organ thundered beneath the medieval arches of England's Canterbury Cathedral, 525 bishops last week joined in a sung Eucharist to conclude the Lambeth Conference, the once-a-decade meeting of the international Anglican hierarchy. The bishops' matching robes of red, white and black gave a superficial impression of unity, as did the compromise measures they had enacted. "Some thought this conference was impossible. Reason and experience suggested we would fall apart. But by keeping our eyes on the Lord, we have not sunk," said a relieved Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie, the Anglicans' spiritual leader...
...bishops do prod the church on some matters, notably the diaconate. Married or single men ordained as "permanent deacons" are now able to perform most of the tasks of a priest except for consecrating the Eucharist and hearing confessions. The bishops' draft all but advocates that women be ordained as deacons and urges that a church-wide study of the matter be completed "soon." The paper also recommends that women and girls be regularly assigned to read the Scriptures and assist at the altar. Though this is already routine in many U.S. parishes, Vatican rules state that women should perform...