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September 2010
Volume 37 Number 7

Communion and mystery
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ON THE COVER: St. Francis of Assisi Church, Bend, Ore. Robert G. Becker, AIA, Becker Architects, Bellevue, Wash. (rgb@beckerarch.com)
From Inside ML:

God’s church, the holy people called God’s own, may be described in many ways and defined by a few. Throughout this year in ML we have pondered many dimensions of what it means to be church. One of the more challenging models of church is that of “mystical communion.” It incorporates elements of other models, connects faith with mission and touches on vocation. Beyond all of that, it connects all those who are one in Christ throughout time, calling on the sense that faith provides in order to understand that which our ordinary perception fails to discern. It offers an equality disturbing to some but is surely a reflection of what we are all called to be for one another. It demands that we be one. Of all the ways we can think about church, approaching it as “mystical communion” holds deep hope in a time when so much in the world is unsettled. Avery Dulles, SJ, in reflecting on this, notes that “many of the Church Fathers, including Augustine, develop the image of the Body of Christ with particular stress on the mystical and invisible communion that binds together all those who are enlivened by the grace of Christ” (Models of the Church [Doubleday, 1987], 50–51). (More)

FEATURES

Welcoming the (illegal) stranger
Kathi Scarpace
Immigration and conscience

Seven lessons from the Camino
William C. Graham
God of the journey

Anam cara: Church rooted in mystical communion
Jean Marie DuHamel
Soul friends
 

Those who are a part of me
Leisa Anslinger
A spirituality of communion

DEPARTMENTS

Inside ML Communion and mystery / Donna M. Cole

Bulletin Inserts / Paul Turner
For Us Men
The Sins of the World

Worship Times Bad behavior department; New Grail psalms approved; and more / Todd Flowerday

Liturgical Spirituality 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Christ the King 2010 / Kay Murdy

Ritual Formation Receiving communion: Rubrics, space, posture / Darren M. Henson

Keeping the Faith Enhancing our union through contemporary media / Leisa Anslinger

The Word Alive Your image of God affects your reading / Anne Louise Bannon

Bridge Work Preference for pink, and perseverance / Ron Raab

Moving Rite Along Is God cool? Devotions and unconditional love / Ada Simpson

Sacred Space When good things pass away: Combining churches / Mary Patricia Storms

Sung Prayer Can you hear me? Can I hear you? The sound of our song / David Haas

At the Table of the Word Going out on a limb for Jesus / Bruce Janiga

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