The Divine Lamp

From a catholicculture.org e-mail:

Pope Benedict Releases Sacrament of Love

Pope Benedict XVI today released Sacramentum Caritatis (Sacrament of Love), his apostolic exhortation on the Eucharist following up the work of the 2005 Synod of Bishops. What this important document covers can be roughly outlined by the titles of its three main parts:

1. The Eucharist, A Mystery to Be Believed
2. The Eucharist, A Mystery to Be Celebrated
3. The Eucharist, A Mystery to Be Lived

The document is available on CatholicCulture.org: Sacramentum Caritatis—Sacrament of Love.

The structure of this document is interesting in that it is clearly designed to assist busy bishops, priests and laity who may not be prone to take the time to read a lengthy academic treatise. Sacramentum Caritatis is broken into numerous subheads, each of which addresses a key point in a succinct paragraph or two. Because of the organization of the document, anyone can scan over it quickly to learn what the Pope wants to emphasize on virtually any Eucharistic topic.

Striking a Blow for Us Oldsters

Speaking of the Eucharist, it is also the source of wisdom. Christ is the Wisdom of God, and so the Eucharist is both Wisdom and its source. Nonetheless, most of us progress toward wisdom very slowly through a combination of grace and hard experience. In other words, the young generally just don’t have it. I address this benefit of age in my current column: Wisdom: The Fruit of Maturity.

The document can be accessed on their site.