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26 Jun, 4 tweets, 1 min read
It has never been the case in Christian history that the Eucharist was a kind of universal meal. From the earliest decades of Christianity, the Church understood the Eucharist as an expression of communion, and admitted to Eucharist those who were fully in the Church’s communion.
In the early centuries of the Church, Christian initiation took years of formation. And so did penance for grave public sins. Penitents would enter the “order of penitents,” and live sometimes for years doing public penance for grave sins, to atone for wound to Church’s unity.
I would, no doubt, have spent most of my life in the “order of penitents.”

The idea was not punishment in order to shame or humiliate. The idea was to effect conversion, to take seriously the integrity of the Church’s unity and witness, and to take seriously God’s judgment.
The Eucharist is - no doubt - an unmerited gift - the real presence of Christ in the sacrifice of the Mass, for our eternal salvation.

It nourishes us to live in accord with God’s will. But it has always been the case that when we don’t, repentance precedes reception.

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24 Jun
Well, in my curiosity about “Free Britney,” I listened to Blackout and Britney Jean last night.

When I thought they were satiric social commentary I thought they were genius. When I realized they weren’t, my enthusiasm for the albums dampened.

But Britney should have justice.
None of us know the real situation of Britney Spears’ mental health. She should have a fair and free hearing.

But it does seem obvious how misogyny and media shading could have played a role in where she is now.

And no one should have a coercive IUD. That’s immoral and tragic.
When Dave Chappelle had a mental health situation and quit the Chappelle Show, he wasn’t judged through the “hysterical unbalanced starlet” lens that Britney seems to be saddled with.
Read 5 tweets
23 Jun
"giving back to the Church" is the sort of phrase that generally suggests an ecclesiology of institution rather than an ecclesiology of common baptismal mission.

It raises my antennae.
"Giving back to the Church" is the sort of phrase one uses when he is glad the Church gave his children a foundation for being perfectly nice and well-mannered people, and not when one realizes that Christ will fling him and his family into some mission of trust and abandonment
a prosaic phrase for a prosaic Christianity.
Read 4 tweets
19 Jun
There remains within some aspects of institutional Catholic culture a desire to be affirmed by the legacy legitimatizing institutions of American public life. The fantasy that if we obscure our weird little popish superstitions, the NY Times will think we're cool.
This is the residual gift of our immigrant past, and maybe the historical circumstances once made the aspiration of social normalcy understandable. But anyone can see the damage it has wrought to the Church, and it is time to stop caring that people will figure out who we are.
We do not let our yes be yes and our no be no, because too often we are trying to find some magical gnostic key to explaining the faith in a way that will cause no scandal. We are left causing scandal while failing to explain the faith.
Read 6 tweets
18 Jun
Hey Everybody:

In just a few minutes, day 3 of #USCCB21 will begin.

Stay tuned for live-tweets of the third day.
On the agenda today:
Results from voting on various issues, including the drafting of a document on the Eucharist, liturgical translations, the new pastoral framework on marriage, and the development of new pastoral documents on Native Americans and on youths.

#USCCB21
Here's a gif. Because "youths."
Read 129 tweets
17 Jun
At #USCCB21 bishops will now discuss:
+Rhodes is now explaining pathway of document in pre-recorded message. Says there has been much confusion and bad information.

As pastors, we are concerned about decline in belief in the Real Presence. Then the pandemic didn't help that.

#USCCB21
The pandemic has however led to a greater appreciation of the Eucharist for some. But we worry that many Catholics may not come back to Mass. As St. Paul reminded the Corinthians:
Read 132 tweets
17 Jun
Ok friends, we'll be returning to Day 2 #USCCB21 in just a moment.

First, discussion of a national framework for youth and young adults, presented by +Burns of Dallas.
And we are back.

+Gomez says there are some "questions" regarding the approval of amendments on "Called to the Joy of Love, and we'll discuss it again.
But for now +Burns discusses the development of a pastoral framework based upon Christus vivit, the post-synodal apostolic exhortation that came after the "youth synod."
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