Underground Cathedrals Glenstal Abbey Chocolates The Eucharist is more than

The Eucharist is more than just a rite performed by a presiding priest in the presence of a congregation

In both cases we are taken outside our own element in order to experience a miracle: 'a music you never would have thought to listen for' (Heaney in 'The Rain Stick')

especially in the Introduction and in the use of The Message

and finding a language to express it

Eugene Peterson's influence runs through this prayer book

Underground Cathedrals Glenstal Abbey Chocolates The Eucharist is more thanMark Patrick Hederman OSB 'My proposal is that, at this time, the Holy Spirit is unearthing an underground cathedral in Ireland which could help to replace the pretentious, over elaborate Irish Catholic architecture of the twentieth century. An underground cathedral is a metaphor which describes an alternative place and time of worship. At this time, the secret work of the Holy Spirit is not being done, in most countries of Western Europe, by