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The Body of Christ in the Tomb of Christ

By Molly Jane Layton The phone read 4:15 a.m. as my alarm roused me from a light sleep. My worry about not hearing it was...

The Flesh of the Mystical Body (Part 2)

By Paul (H. Matthew Lee) What I have written about the fleshiness of the Mystical Body in the first half of this essay implies that...

Virtual Communion and the Call to Discern the Body

What would a practice of virtual Communion show us about the nature of Christ’s real presence in the consecrated elements?

Very Members Incorporate

Cranmer’s traditionalism comes through in his emphasis on the mutual indwelling of the believer and Christ, and the incorporation of believers into Christ.

The Dead, Divided Church of Holy Saturday

Our hopes for the Church do not rest on human perfection but on divine grace.

The adoration of a body snatcher

Every host Sam would receive in the future could be for him a kind of touchable Sanctus.

From the Garden

“I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its produce.”

Glorious apparel

Mightier than the sound of many waters, mightier than the breakers of the sea, mightier is the LORD who dwells on high.

Fraternal language and the body of Christ

Calling someone “brother” or "sister" in the Church shapes how we perceive each other.

Helicopter pastoring

The work of the Church must belong to the body of Christ, which is much, much more than the bodies of the priested.

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