Adoration with no end: 24-hour Eucharistic ritual returns to Boston
It's funny, but the words used in this article give the sense of either lazy reporting or subtle prejudice, and I can't decide which. Calling Perpetual Adoration an 'unusual ritual' (which is akin to calling any type of meditation, Buddhist, Catholic or Transcendental unusual no matter how commonplace), and the references to the Host as 'wafer' and the monstrance as 'wafer-holder', sound jarring and off-putting. It sounds like someone didn't take time to learn the terminology or doesn't like the Church or the practice. Just my feeling. It could just be my crade-Catholicity...
This is so true:
"You can get cigarettes 24/7, you can buy milk, and you can’t have a church open?"
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