{"id":109670,"date":"2014-06-21T07:17:07","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T05:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vincentians.com\/?p=109670"},"modified":"2016-07-12T10:50:25","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T08:50:25","slug":"most-holy-body-and-blood-of-christ-jose-antonio-pagola-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vincentians.com\/en\/most-holy-body-and-blood-of-christ-jose-antonio-pagola-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Jos\u00e9 Antonio Pagola)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stagnant<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Pope Francis<\/strong> keeps repeating that fears, doubts, lack of boldness \u2026 can radically hinder the impetus toward the renewal the Church needs today. In his Apostolic Exhortation, \u201dThe Joy of the Gospel,\u201d he goes so far as to say that, if we stay paralyzed by fear, once again we can end up being \u201cmere onlookers as the Church gradually stagnates.\u201d<\/p>\n

His words are thought-provoking. What can we see taking place among us? Are we mobilizing so as to rekindle the faith in our Christian communities, or do we remain settled in this \u201cinfertile stagnation\u201d<\/strong> that Francis talks about? Where do we find strength to react?<\/p>\n

One of the great contributions of the Second Vatican Council was the impetus given to move from \u201cMass,\u201d understood as private obligation to fulfill a sacred precept, to the \u201cEucharist,\u201d lived out as a joyful celebration of the whole community to nourish its faith, grow in solidarity and to fan the flames of our hope in Christ<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Over these years, we have undoubtedly taken important steps. Far from us now are those Masses celebrated in Latin, in which the priest \u201csaid\u201d Mass and the Christian people came to \u201chear\u201d Mass or \u201cassist at\u201d the celebration. But are we not celebrating the Eucharist in a routine and boring manner?<\/p>\n

There is one undeniable fact. The people are unstoppably drifting away the Sunday practice because they do not find in our celebrations the climate, the clear word, the expressive rite<\/strong>, the exciting welcome they need in order to nourish their weak and faltering faith.<\/p>\n

Without doubt, all of us, pastors and believers, have to ask ourselves what we have been doing so that the Eucharist may really be, as the Council desires, the \u201ccenter and summit of the whole life of the Christian community.\u201d But is the good will of parishes or the isolated creativity of some people enough, without further criteria for renewal?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Supper of the Lord is way too important to let it get \u201clost\u201d as we become \u201cmere onlookers as the Church gradually stagnates.\u201d Is not the Eucharist the center of Christian life? How can the hierarchy remain so silent and still? Why do we believers not show our concern and our pain more forcefully? <\/strong><\/p>\n

The problem is serious. Should we go on being \u201cstuck\u201d in a way of celebrating the Eucharist that has so little attraction for today\u2019s men and women?<\/strong> Is this liturgy that we have been repeating since centuries ago the best that can help us to make present today that memorable supper of Jesus, in which the core of our faith is admirably condensed like some sort of concentrate?<\/p>\n

J<\/strong>os\u00e9 Antonio Pagola<\/strong><\/p>\n

June 22, 2014
\nBody and Blood of Christ (A)
\nJohn 6, 51-58<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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