WON'T HE EVER GO AWAY?
In the National Catholic Reporter, McBrien writes of his disdain for the growing re-appreciation of Eucharistic Adoration. Read the article here. He ends his op-ed with this revealing statement:
Now that most Catholics are literate and even well-educated, the Mass is in the language of the people (i.e, the vernacular), and its rituals are relatively easy to understand and follow, there is little or no need for extraneous eucharistic devotions. The Mass itself provides all that a Catholic needs sacramentally and spiritually. Eucharistic adoration, perpetual or not, is a doctrinal, theological, and spiritual step backward, not forward.
What's with this man? If he doesn't like to spend time with Our Lord privately in Church in Adoration, fine, but dissing the rest of us and diminishing the reality of the Sacrament is petty at best and sacriligeous at worst. Interestingly, the comments beneath this article have many folks, who normally like McBrien's iconoclastic take on things, castigating the priest for his irreverent views.
In a world that recognizes the presence of God less and less, Eucharistic Adoration fulfills its original purpose--to proclaim to the world that Jesus is really, truly with us. During this Year of the Priest, Fr. McBrien again betrays his own vocation. So sorry, Fr. McBrien, that in the ivory tower of academe, oh yes, at that really Catholic institution of Notre Dame, you appear to have lost your soul.
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