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The Eucharist: yesterday, today, and tomorrow
Our thanks to Thomas O’Loughlin for permission to publish his article on our website. It first appeared in ‘Liturgy, Volume 42, Issue 3,’ Catholic Diocese of Auckland. It is available on the website of the University of Nottingham. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/47628/8/Eucharist%20Yesterday%20and%20Tomorrow%20NZ.pdf
Analysing the Child Sex offender
Susie Orbach, psychotherapist and author, reviews the latest research into child sex offenses in this half-hour-long BBC Four radio programme
Young people and the Liturgy
I was never too happy with herding the entire school community into a church for a beginning of year or end of year liturgical extravaganza.
A youth liturgy group was set up; not a children’s liturgy group, by the way, as the members range in age from sixteen to the mid twenties. This group was given the responsibility of organizing liturgies on five or six occasions during the liturgical year.First Confession – a sort of Memoir
Seamus Ahearne reflects on current happenings and events and is inspired by them and the ocean’s currents.
“… the core of the Church message is to draw out the goodness and beauty of every person. We have to bring out the best in each other. We have to join as a collective and come ashore hand in hand – fully believing in this Communion. The false divisions of the past have to be cast aside. We need to be fearless in making big and new decisions. Francis is leading the way. Throw caution to the wind! How dare we fail as teachers, as ministers, as people of faith. We cannot settle for less than greatness.”Anonymous comments should not be posted here
This comment, about the problem of anonymous contributions to our website, has come in from Michael O’Brien. Since it is something the ACP leadership has been thinking about, it has been put up as a post. A comment from the moderators is added underneath.
Things Fall Apart
Chris McDonnell, in this week’s Catholic Times column, writes “We have seen a movement within the Church that, in some ways, reflects the line of Yeats. ‘Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold’, but not completely. For our centre, Christ incarnate, is secure and will always remain. What will change with each generation, and I would suggest, must change, is the manner in which we respond to this eternal experience of the loving God.”