The Church has always been conscious of the respectful care of consecrated Eucharist and in providing for a place where the Eucharist can be kept at the conclusion of Mass. This place is now commonly known as the Tabernacle. The Latin word is tabernaculum, a hut or tent and conveys the idea of a structure at which or in which to dwell or to rest. Continue reading
This coming Sunday is the 2nd Sunday in Lent. The scholar Pheme Perkins (632) provides a good final reflection for our Sunday gospel:
Despite providing the most dramatic evidence of Jesus’ relationship to God of any epiphany scene in the Gospel, the transfiguration cannot override the necessity of Jesus’ suffering and death. It does sharpen the paradox of the cross. Although God spared Moses and Elijah from the normal processes of death, not only does God’s own beloved Son die, but also his death is at the hands of his enemies. Even the affirmations of exaltation and entry into the glory of his Father (8:38) cannot nullify the scandal of the cross. God’s command to heed the word of Jesus gives his teaching the authority of divine revelation. Continue reading
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