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First Communion - Ritual, Church and Popular Religious Identity (Hardcover, New Ed)
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First Communion - Ritual, Church and Popular Religious Identity (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Liturgy, Worship and Society Series
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One of the most carefully prepared liturgies of any Roman Catholic
parish's year is the celebration of 'First Communion'. This is the
ritual by which seven- or eight -year-old children are admitted to
the Eucharist for the first time. It attracts the largest
congregations of any parish liturgy, and yet is frequently marked
by tension and dissent within the parish community. The same ritual
holds very different meanings for the various parties involved -
clergy, parish schools, regularly communicating parishioners, and
the first communicants and their families. The tensions arise from
dissonance between the parties on such key issues as expected
patterns of Church attendance, Catholic identity, dress and
expenditure, and family formation. The relationships and
discontinuities between popular and 'official' religion is at the
heart of these tensions. They touch upon deep-seated anxieties
concerning the future viability of the very structures and patterns
of parish life during the current period of falling Church
attendance and parish closures. For those within the Church who are
concerned to understand and address the issues in its structural
decline, this book will make sometimes uncomfortable but always
stimulating reading. Peter McGrail examines the relationship
between Church structures and popular religious identity, viewed
through the lens of the first communion event. Drawing out hitherto
unrecognised connections and significances for the future of the
Catholic Church at local level, the insights into the decline of
the parish as an institution present challenges to all with an
interest in and concern for the future of the Church in the
English-speaking world. Bringing to the fore the relationship and
tensions between liturgy and Church structures, both historically
and at the present time, this book offers academics and students
alike extensive material for reflection and future development..
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