Words from Louis-Marie Chauvet in support of Fritz Bauerschmidt’s post
“Are the Words of the Liturgy Worn Out? What Diagnosis? What Pastoral Approach?” is the title of Louis-Marie Chauvet’s 2009 Godfrey Diekmann, O.S.B., Award Response to the members of the North American...
View ArticleLooking for Christ in all the wrong places: the lesson of the empty tomb
Here’s one of my favorite passages from Louis-Marie Chauvet’s The Sacraments: The Word of God at the Mercy of the Body: You cannot arrive at the recognition of the risen Jesus unless you renounce...
View ArticleSymbolic loss
I found my wedding ring today about noon. It’s been missing for 10 days. I only ever take it off when I’m putting something slippery or sticky all over my hands. In this case it was shampoo to wash my...
View ArticleChauvet Newly Translated in German
Nearly thirty years since its original publication in France (June 1987) and twenty years after its English translation (December 1994), Louis-Marie Chauvet’s Symbole et Sacrement has just been...
View ArticleDoubt and Bodies
Teaching a first-year course at Seton Hill entitled, Faith, Religion, & Society, it’s always interesting when students volunteer the opposite of “faith.” Almost always they say “doubt.” Of course,...
View ArticleThe Alarming Consequences of Communion
Without over-stating the obvious: we live in a period of our collective human history all at once odd, strange, anxious, confusing, stressful, and strikingly electric. First, a virulent microbe...
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