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“In the middle, the hidden coming”
We know that the coming of the Lord is threefold: the third coming is between the other two and it is not visible in the way they are. At his first coming the Lord was seen on earth and lived among...
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Like the dewfall
I have many favourite moments in the Mass, but one of my favouritest is when we pray the epiclesis. Epiclesis means invocation, or “sending down from on High”. After the priest blesses the gifts of...
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“The one great thing to love on earth”
”Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament… There you will find romance, glory, honour, fidelity, and the true...
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I’m giving up bad liturgy for Lent
That’s it. It’s a late Lenten resolution but this Lent, I am giving up bad liturgies. I’ve had enough of it. All of it. The ad-libbed Eucharistic Prayers, the casual sauntering around the Altar, the...
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“On this holiest of nights”
Night falls in Jerusalem. Jesus washes our feet. Ford Madox Brown, Jesus Washing Peter’s Feet, 1876 (City of Manchester Art Galleries, Manchester) Jesus offers thanks and blesses the bread and wine....
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Council of Trent on the Eucharist: A Summary
I’m currently writing an essay on the Protestant theologies of the Eucharist at the time of the Reformation and the Council of Trent’s response to them, along with contemporary approaches to these same...
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Why Doesn’t Bread Talk? The Troubling Silence of the Eucharist
A little over a year ago, I made a remarkable discovery. Like all truly great discoveries, it was one that countless others have made before me. I came to believe that the Catholic doctrine of the...
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Council of Trent on the Sacrifice of the Mass: A Summary
1. In the Old Covenant, God ordained that sacrifices be offered but these were but signs, and so God ordained that “another priest should arise, according to the order of Melchisedech, our Lord Jesus...
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How St Joseph Was Added to the Canon
A week or so ago, Pope Francis announced that the name of St Joseph would be added to the Intercessions in the Eucharistic Prayers. After the consecration, we will now hear “…with the Blessed Virgin...
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Transubstantiation? (Answering ‘Nothing In My Hand I Bring’)
Have you read this book? It’s by Anglican pastor Ray Galea and the go-to anti-Catholic book, at least here in Sydney. (By “anti”, I don’t mean it’s hateful or anything, just that it argues against...
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Sacrifice of the Mass? (Answering ‘Nothing in my Hand I Bring’)
I wrote a post critiquing Ray Galea’s book on Catholicism. What I didn’t tell you was that Transubstantiation was simply one section in one chapter on the Mass in what is actually quite a small book....
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“In the middle, the hidden coming”
We know that the coming of the Lord is threefold: the third coming is between the other two and it is not visible in the way they are. At his first coming the Lord was seen on earth and lived among...
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Like the dewfall
I have many favourite moments in the Mass, but one of my favouritest is when we pray the epiclesis. Epiclesis means invocation, or “sending down from on High”. After the priest blesses the gifts of...
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How Jane Austen Got Me into the Latin Mass
A couple of months ago, I started going to the Traditional Latin Mass. From the get-go, I was intrigued. I found it both incredibly appealing but also deeply unsettling, and I didn’t know what to make...
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Catholics and Baby Food
Can I be honest? Horribly, brutally and probably quite untactfully honest? The hardest thing about becoming Catholic isn’t the opposition from Protestants, the weakening of friendships, the moving...
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Gatecrashing the Trinity: Don Miller & Why Catholics Go to Mass
Don Miller is a prominent Christian writer, the voice of a new generation of Evangelicals. And he doesn’t go to church much… at all. But wait, I hear you saying, don’t all Christians go to church?...
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Catholics and Baby Food
Can I be honest? Horribly, brutally and probably quite untactfully honest? The hardest thing about becoming Catholic isn’t the opposition from Protestants, the weakening of friendships, the moving...
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Bless This Chocolate: How M&Ms & the Eucharist Got Me Saying Grace
I’ve never been very good at saying grace. Scrap that, I’ve always been dreadful at praying grace before meals, particularly with my family. They aren’t practicing Christians so we never did it. When...
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Is the Eucharist Your Deal-Breaker for Dating?
Last year, I took part in the Not Alone Series, a blog link-up for young, single Christian women like yours truly. I’ve been meaning to get back into to and I decided this week I would — whatever the...
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