[NYer]

Ping!

[Mr. K]

Isn’t there anything important they could have on their monds?

[frogjerk]

We are blessed to have Perpetual Eucharist Adoration @ our Parish.

[frogjerk]

said the Rev. Richard P. McBrien, a noted theologian at the University of Notre Dame.

Cough, cough,...excuse me.

[StonyMan451]

Poor Fr. McBrien. Once again he illustrates that he just doesn’t understand what he’s talking about.

[marshmallow]

"It distorts the meaning of the Eucharist," McBrien said. "It erodes the communal aspect, and it erodes the fact that the Eucharist is a meal. Holy Communion is something to be eaten, not to be adored."

Since when are the two mutually exclusive?

I'm just back from lunch at "Fat Man's" and I adored my club sandwich before I ate it.

This guy is a theologian?

[frogjerk]

"No one eat this flesh, if he has not adored it before; for we sin if we do not adore," Benedict said, quoting St. Augustine, in a 2009 speech at the Vatican.

"It distorts the meaning of the Eucharist," McBrien said. "It erodes the communal aspect, and it erodes the fact that the Eucharist is a meal. Holy Communion is something to be eaten, not to be adored." For that reason, McBrien said, the practice should be "tolerated but not encouraged."

Hmmm...which to choose...St. Augustine, probably the Greatest Doctor of Holy Mother Church or Rev Richard O'Brien, heretic....

[papertyger]

"It distorts the meaning of the Eucharist," McBrien said. "It erodes the communal aspect, and it erodes the fact that the Eucharist is a meal. Holy Communion is something to be eaten, not to be adored."

Next he'll be telling us Mary is the mother of Jesus, but not of God.

[Brian Kopp DPM]

Our prior bishop felt much the same way about Adoration as the heretic McBrien. So when a local pastor decided to open a Perpetual Adoration chapel here in Johnstown, I asked him how he was going to get the bishop’s approval. Canonically, one must have the bishop’s approval for Perpetual Adoration. The pastor’s answer? “We just won’t do it Saturday night.” He got around the bishop by having it 24 hours a day, from Sunday evenings till Saturday mornings, then closing the chapel from Saturday morning til Sunday evening. He didn’t need to ask permission because technically, it wasn’t “Perpetual.”

Where there’s a will, there’s a way.

[Ransomed]

“For that reason, McBrien said, the practice should be “tolerated but not encouraged.”

It’s a Catholic thing...you wouldn’t understand.

Freegards

[frogjerk]

In the days when priests celebrated Mass in Latin with minimal participation by the congregation, the hymns and prayers associated with adoration gave lay Catholics an opportunity for public worship, Irwin said

This non-active participation stuff is a bunch of hogwash. Is not the laity supposed to be praying, meditating and preparing themselves for what is to happen in mere moments in the Mass. Sacred Silence should be celebrated and not condemned as "I'm bored and get nothing out of it, duh..."

[ottbmare]

We have 24-7 Adoration in our parish. It has been a vast blessing.

[lastchance]

“the Rev. Richard P. McBrien, a noted theologian at the University of Notre Dame”

Oh yeah he is a reliable source./sarc.

[lastchance]

The article is so very slanted I suspect it’s source to be less than in agreement with Catholic doctrine.

[Shark24]

At one of the parishes I volunteer with here in So Cal the Confirmation team (mostly 17-25 year old) routinely participate in 24 hour Adoration in conjunction with their retreats and Catechist activities. Warms my heart!

[annalex]

step back into the Middle Ages

Not a moment too soon.

[narses]

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[Tax-chick]

I was healed of a non-threatening but quite distressing phyical problem during prayer before the Blessed Sacrament on the Vigil of Pentecost. I just knew then that "the power of God was on Him to heal," and receiving Communion the next morning was the kicker.

No recurrence in five days - and it's been a tough week! - after having this problem every day since early May.

[Melian]

I often reflect at Mass that if we really focus on what we are receiving when we are in the line to receive the Eucharist, most of us would crawl forward on our bellies, overcome with awe.

[Barnacle]

This weekend at my parish.