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.