The ritual we are going to see in just a couple of minutes I would say that most Catholics have never seen in their lifetimes. I can say that with some confidence because we only see this ritual on Holy Thursday, when we read John’s gospel of the last supper, the only gospel where we hear about Christ washing the disciples’ feet. And so the only people who get to see this are you, who are among the elite who have figured out that this next three days, no offense meant to anything else, but this three days are really the best thing the Catholic Church has to offer all…
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Maybe you saw the study recently in the New York Times about what Catholics believe about the eucharist. Like many surveys of Catholics, it disturbed a great many people. It reported that more than 60% of Catholics said that Jesus was not really present in the eucharist as the body of Christ, but that the bread and wine were really more like a symbolic reminder of him and his life. Many people saw this and wondered what it is that’s wrong with people in the church, with the way we teach people, or maybe about how we do liturgy, that accounts for the fact that people no longer believe that…