VIRTUAL DIVINE OFFICE

  SUNDAY EVENING PRAYER I SEVENTEENTH WEEK OF ORDINARY TIME  JULY 29 PSALTER WEEK I _______________________________________________________ VIRTUAL RESOURCES Virtual resources provide more than the dry bones of the liturgical text. They celebrate the Hours with sounds and images. Most importantly they provide community, both community with those who produced the sounds and images, and community with those who celebrate the Hours with the same sounds and images at various times and places.    There are two posts per day. one for Morning Prayer and one for Evening Prayer. Each includes: Both a recitation-in-common YouTube site and a completely sung YouTube site having complete texts. Two additional YouTube alternatives for the beginning Hymn. YouTube alternatives for each of two psalms for each Hour. Links to Longer Readings Options instead of the Short Reading. YouTube versions of both the Gospel Canticle and Lord's Prayer. Breviaries which provide the liturgical text...

  Theological Foundations of Eucharistic Beliefs One of the reasons evoked for the USCCB’s Eucharistic Revival is the data from the 2019 Pew Research Center survey around Catholic faith in the Eucharist. The poll, according to Pew, has found that 69% of Catholics believe bread and wine are symbols, while only 31% of Catholics believe the Church’s teaching around transubstantiation.  This poll has been done several times before, and each publication leads to headlines about decline in Eucharistic belief among ordinary Catholics. The pastoral implication seems clear from all of this: Catholics do not go to Mass because they do not believe in the doctrines of the real presence and transubstantiation. The problem with the Pew Report is that it does not quite reveal what it claims to, namely, what the belief of ordinary Catholics around the Eucharist is. The poll suffers from two major theological deficiencies (it should be noted that we leave the sociological fallacies to experts ...

  Eucharistic Revival and Synodality Synodality is about communion, participation and mission; so, too, is the Eucharist. Too bad the Eucharistic Revival is not.  When Pope Francis called for a worldwide consultation of lay Catholics about their concerns as part of the Synod on Synodality, U.S. bishops responded less than enthusiastically. Instead, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops put its time, effort and money into a national program called the Eucharistic Revival. It was not impossible to do both programs, but as any pastor will tell you, doing two major programs at once in a parish is very difficult. It is hard enough to do just one program while keeping all the other parish activities rolling along. With a little bit of effort, the two programs could have complemented each other instead of being in conflict. After all, synodality makes for a better Eucharist, and the Eucharist creates and nourishes synodality. Both are about communion, participation and mission. “In...

  CARA: Eucharistic Beliefs: A National Survey of Adult Catholics Theological Foundations of Eucharistic Beliefs   National Eucharistic Congress ends with Plans for Movement to Continue Organizers Hope for Spiritual Revival Eucharistic Revival and Synodality