A RESPONSE CONCERNING THE HOLY EUCHARIST
Fr. Duncan Richards Communing the Faithful at St. Mitrophan and Alopen’s Cathedral Parish in the Missionary Diocese of East and Southeast Asia Most Reverend Father E, Grace and peace to you in Our Lord Jesus Christ. I pray you have a blessed and peaceful Lenten season! Thank you for your thoughtful and fraternal inquiry. We are grateful for your careful reading of our materials and for raising so central a question that needs to be addressed. If anything must be made explicit in our confession, it is the Eucharistic Mystery, our Church is born from the Altar, and lives from the Chalice. Just as we do not film the Consecration and Epiclesis in our liturgies, preserving the mystery of our faith from outside intrusion, behind curtains in the Ancient Liturgy of St. James; so on our website, we do not go too deeply into the mysteries that only our baptized initiates should know. I have talked very clearly about the Eucharist in catechetical sessions, and also have a whole section...
