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- Eucharist and Receptive Ecumenism
- Eucharist and Receptive Ecumenism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The Call of Unity
- 2 Diversity Is the Tradition
- 3 A Phenomenology of Giving Thanks
- 4 Eucharistia and Revelation
- 5 Ambrose’s Words and the Roman Canon
- 6 Augustine and the Assembly’s Destiny
- 7 Consecrating and Offering the Ordinary
- 8 The Eschatological Exception
- 9 Outdo One Another in Showing Honor
- 10 Into the Heart of God
- Bibliography
- Index
8 - The Eschatological Exception
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 October 2020
- Eucharist and Receptive Ecumenism
- Eucharist and Receptive Ecumenism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The Call of Unity
- 2 Diversity Is the Tradition
- 3 A Phenomenology of Giving Thanks
- 4 Eucharistia and Revelation
- 5 Ambrose’s Words and the Roman Canon
- 6 Augustine and the Assembly’s Destiny
- 7 Consecrating and Offering the Ordinary
- 8 The Eschatological Exception
- 9 Outdo One Another in Showing Honor
- 10 Into the Heart of God
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
In Chapter 7, working toward a new understanding of communion, I explored the significance of the ordinary performance of the Roman Rite Eucharist. Nonordinary practice, however, in some ways provides a separate pole for interpretation. A regular Sunday eucharistic liturgy proposes a steady and repeatable world for the assembly to enter into; a funeral liturgy, viaticum for the dying, or the Paschal Triduum, on the other hand, is still a eucharistic liturgy, but each takes on a different emotional character and will normally be remembered much longer. The meaning of liturgy is constructed by and for Christians over long periods of time by means of the dynamic interaction between ordinary and exceptional practice.1 A first glance at these examples is enough to suggest that exceptional liturgies tend to carry a stronger eschatological character than the ordinary liturgies, or better, that ordinary liturgies tend to speak eschatologically by resonating with these less common rites, breaking people out of their mundane assumptions.
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- Eucharist and Receptive EcumenismFrom Thanksgiving to Communion, pp. 168 - 184Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020