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Doctrine, Dissent, and the Eucharist
On the Readings for Sunday, August 26, 2018 […]
John 6
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The New Manna is supernatural food given for supernatural life
Readings: • Dt 8:2-3, 14b-16a • Psa 147:12-13, 14-15, 19-20 • 1 Cor 10:16-17 • Jn 6:51-58 In my late teens I began to have questions about the beliefs and practices of the small Fundamentalist […]
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“My Flesh for the life of the world”: The Eucharist and Evangelization
The work of Jesus—His self-giving for the life of the world—is to become our work as well. […]
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You are Who you eat: “Let Christ be eaten…”
On the Readings for August 19, 2018 […]
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Recovering the fourfold sense of Scripture in John 6
The story recounted in John 6 is both miraculous and sacrificial, two things modernity rejects but to which the Church holds fast. […]
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The “sheer contradiction” of the miracle of the loaves and fishes
On the Readings for Sunday, July 29, 2018 […]