Inside Look at the Neo-Catechumenal Way

This is a lengthy article by Mark Alessio on the Neo-Catechumenal Way (to which I made reference in my last post), but it's worth slogging through.

Some of the most salient points:

Carmen says "the sacrament is not only the bread and wine but also the assembly, the whole Church which proclaims the Eucharist." Ahem. "Without this assembly proclaiming the Eucharist there can be no Eucharist."

!!!

Kiko says, "Nor do we have priests in the sense of people whom we pick out from among men so that in our name they may get in contact with the Godhead. Because our priest, who intercedes for us, is Christ. And since we are His Body we are all priests."

Thank you, Martin Luther.

Of course, liturgical abuses are the norm for the NCW. Cardinal Arinze had to issue a letter of rebuke to the group a few months ago, insisting - among other things - that:

1) The homily must be reserved to the priest

2) The NCW has two years to make the transition from their peculiar style of communion ("seated, with a cloth-covered table placed at the center of the church instead of the dedicated altar in the sanctuary") - which is a lot like the Baptist version of the Lord's Supper - to the method used by the rest of the Church

3) The NCW needs to stop using Eucharistic Prayer II exclusively

We'll see what comes of it.