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The Bishops and Eucharistic Coherence
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March 17, 2021
Coherence is the logical way of presenting the facts. It is another word for consistency. Since the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has decided to address Eucharistic coherence, we can presume that they have deemed it a matter of concern and something they need to talk about in an official way.
But a look back at history in recent decades forces us to wonder why they need to do this.
In 2005, Cardinal Alfonso Trujillo, the Vatican prelate who led the Pontifical Council for the Family for many years, referred to a previous synod as he taught in
, Pope St. John Paul II invited Catholics to “rekindle” our sense of “Eucharistic amazement,” for “the Church draws her life from the Eucharist,” which “recapitulates the heart of the mystery of the Church” Christ’s glorified, abiding presence with, in, and through his people, fulfilling his promise to remain with us “to the close of the age” (Matthew 28:20). In the Eucharist, the Church meets her Lord “with unique intensity.” Thus the celebration of the Eucharist is not just something the Church does; the celebration of the Eucharist singularly embodies what the Church is.
That profound sense of Eucharistic amazement is why the Latin American bishops, in their 2007 Aparecida Document, insisted on “Eucharistic coherence” in their Catholic communities. And according to those bishops (whose number included the man who would become pope six years later), the Church’s Eucharistic coherence required that holy communion not be distributed to those Catholi
In his encyclical,
Ecclesia de Eucharistia, Pope St. John Paul II invited Catholics to “rekindle” our sense of “Eucharistic amazement,” for “the Church draws her life from the Eucharist,” which “recapitulates the heart of the mystery of the Church” – Christ’s glorified, abiding presence with, in, and through his people, fulfilling his promise to remain with us “to the close of the age” (Matthew 28:20). In the Eucharist, the Church meets her Lord “with unique intensity.” Thus the celebration of the Eucharist is not just something the Church
does; the celebration of the Eucharist singularly embodies what the Church
is.
That profound sense of Eucharistic amazement is why the Latin American bishops, in their 2007 Aparecida Document, insisted on “Eucharistic coherence” in their Catholic communities. And according to those bishops (whose number included the man who would become pope six years later), the Church’s Eucharistic coherence required that
In his encyclical, Ecclesia de Eucharistia, Pope St. John Paul II invited Catholics to rekindle our sense of Eucharistic amazement, for the Church draws her life from the Eucharist, which recapitulates the heart of the mystery of the Church Christ s glorified, abiding presence with, in, and through his people, fulfilling his promise to remain with us to the close of the age (Matthew 28:20). In the Eucharist, the Church meets her Lord with unique intensity. Thus, the celebration of the Eucharist is not just something the Church does; the celebration of the Eucharist singularly embodies what the Church is.
That profound sense of Eucharistic amazement is why the Latin American bishops, in their 2007 Aparecida Document, insisted on Eucharistic coherence in their Catholic communities. And according to those bishops (whose number included the man who would become pope six years later), the Church s Eucharistic coherence required that holy communion not be distributed to