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Tag: Eucharist
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Lesson 9: Eucharist as Ritual
Read MORE: Lesson 9: Eucharist as RitualThe most important challenge for a Eucharist liturgy is to express a community meal rather than an institutional ritual. The Church has not always done a very good job with this one. Too often, the service is regarded as fulfilling…
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Lesson 8: Eucharist as Thanksgiving
Read MORE: Lesson 8: Eucharist as ThanksgivingThe official title of the communion meal is the Eucharist, a Greek word meaning thanksgiving. By examining how this title applies we can learn a lot about the sacrament. First, thanksgiving is given a prominent place in the official account…
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Lesson 7: Eucharist as Remembering
Read MORE: Lesson 7: Eucharist as RememberingIn our technological society, we forget how important remembering the past is for keeping our balance in life. Faith, hope, and love have always been used to summarize how Christians make decisions. Faith primarily is trust in the story that…
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Lesson 6: Eucharist as Eating Together
Read MORE: Lesson 6: Eucharist as Eating TogetherThe sacraments taken together express the fullness of the Christian life. Baptism welcomes us into the community that shares meals with each other and God. Although this might appear to be nothing extraordinary to an outside observer, the Church proclaims…
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Lesson 10: Early Christian Meals
Read MORE: Lesson 10: Early Christian MealsIn the last lesson, I suggested conversing over fine food and drink might be the best way to promote friendship in our day. In this one, I’d like to support the thought by showing how important this is for Christianity.…
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Lesson 9: Promoting Friendship
Read MORE: Lesson 9: Promoting FriendshipSo how can we promote the important elements of traditional friendship? We obviously cannot force people to enlarge their circle of friends by preaching at them. Robert Putnam, famous for his book Bowling Alone, felt the answer was to develop…
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Lesson 8: I Am the Bread of Life
Read MORE: Lesson 8: I Am the Bread of LifeJohn 6 is built around Jesus’ proclamation, “I am the Bread of Life,” John’s working of the Feeding of the Multitude. His presentation of the Feeding almost parallels the reports of the other three gospels in which the mighty work…
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God Eats With His People: Proper 13
Read MORE: God Eats With His People: Proper 13For several years my parish trained first year field workers for the seminary. They usually sent us their most difficult students. One of those was Heikki Ausiku, a pastor from Namibia. You might remember South Africa controlled this Lutheran nation,…
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So forgiveness pre-requires understanding the mistakes of the past? here hear re this opposing this me-first, America-first, white-first, male-first approach>…
An extremely timely topic. Thanks, Fritz!