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Monday, June 7, 2010

Eucharistic Adoration?

As many Catholics, Anglicans, and some of the Lutherans (whom I know) are aware yesterday was the Corpus Christi Feast (see Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_Christi_(feast) . As many know it is a day which people pay tribute to the Host (Christ Body), and so in the spirit of such a day I ask the Sunday school teacher a question I've been meaning to ask the my pastor:
"I've read that some Lutherans churches (even in the LCMS) practice Eucharistic Adoration (see Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucharistic_adoration#Lutheran_belief ) so why does our, my ELCA friend's church does so why not ours?"
Her response:
" It seems like the more liberal the church the quicker to practice Eucharistic Adoration, and besides the Host is something to be received not worshipped."
Then I started thing "It seems the high church is the quicker it is to practice Eucharistic Adoration...it doesn't seem to have anything to do the being liberal or not", but I didn't say that aloud. Then I started think about the second part of her answer and I thought to myself "I see your point however I kinda disagree. I mean yes we should worship God alone, but the Host ,according to the Bible and the Catechism, is Christ body...so in itself Christ."
When I told this to my Anglican friend she told me that I sould ask my Pastor but I'm always afaird of asking question, because I'm afraid of either waisting his time or asking a stupid question. Those kinds of questions are for the internet.

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