Cup or Chalise
Below is an article from Commonweal Magazine that discusses a bit more about the new translation, I am really glad we are not just letting this go. We need to be the voice in the church, we need to stand up and stop just letting things happen without any interest about what it means to our identity or most importantly, the mission of Jesus. Part of our baptismal call is to serve the church, how do we do that if we simply sit by and let others make all the decisions and essentially drag us back a millennium. We all need to take this seriously.http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/cup-or-chaliceThe point that has been bothering me all along is mentioned in here. “Chalices are for priests; cups for laypeople. This suggests a return to the understanding of a priest as a sacral person separated from the community rather than offering the Eucharist as a member of “the Body of Christ.” If we do not believe Paul in that we are the Body of Christ, blessed and broken, than what are we?? What, in the end, will it mean to be “church.”
