How did Eucharistic devotion wither to such a degree that a national Revival and Congress are called for? Are we being asked to refill the leaky bucket without inquiring about the locations and causes of the leaks?Įucharistic Revival. Will the Philadelphia parish that sang the Eagles fight song at Mass on Super Bowl Sunday readily conform? Will the parishes that use Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion even when such aren’t needed, readily conform? The parishes singing the heretical “Mary Did You Know?” at Christmas every year “because people really like it”-will they readily conform? Do you believe that they will do so because of the small print regarding liturgical fidelity that can be found in the Leader’s Playbook?Ī small digression from your text: Tim, this points to a larger problem that I’ve not found in the materials for the Revival/Congress-Why did a revival become necessary? Something needs to be revived only when it’s been killed or allowed to die. It’s true that the Leader’s Playbook calls for “fidelity to the texts and rubrics of the Church.” Tim, what’s your basis for thinking that even “Parish Leaders” could name what those texts and rubrics are? What’s your basis for thinking that parishes on “liturgical autopilot” for decades will conform to liturgical law just because the Leader’s Playbook suggests it? In other words, in terms of the evaluation of your argument, your reference to this video undermines rather than supports your cause. A whole list of “coulds” were listed as options-confession was not referred to as a necessity. A parish “could” offer extra opportunities for confession.

Notice the conditional language in the video.

I had already looked at the video you referred to (second introductory video for the Parish Year). Glemkowski to find his way back to his corner. If he had the stronger argument, he wouldn’t focus on “tone.” I note that your first principal concern was about “tone.”įr McT defends his having actually read the relevant site and materials and having done a word search for “confession”, which one might rather naturally do, but for which he was criticized. Glemkowski.īriefly, regarding form: I taught my rhetoric students that when an interlocutor begins his response expressing concerns about “tone,” keep your eye on his substance-because that’s where the weaknesses are most likely to be found. I debated getting into that piece here, with some “zisking”, but … the efforts for “Eucharistic Revival”, though perhaps a bit narrow, are nevertheless worthy and I didn’t think embarrassing this fellow was up to the mark. (I’m not making that up), Tim Glemkowski, responded to Fr. Right after, on 7 November, the CEO of the National Eucharistic Congress, Inc. It makes sense, no? What sort of revival would it be were the number of sacrilegious Communion to increase even beyond what the horrifying numbers are now? McTeigue pointed out a serious difficulty in advancing a “Eucharistic Revival” without also striving to revive the Sacrament of Penance, confession. Robert McTeigue, SJ, which commented on the “Eucharistic Revival” which is underway under the impulse of the bench of bishops. A couple weeks ago, I brought to your attention a 4 November piece at Catholic World Report by Fr.

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