The Sacrament Reserved

Author : W. H. Freestone
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333956400
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (564 download)

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Download or read book The Sacrament Reserved written by W. H. Freestone and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-16 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Sacrament Reserved: A Survey of the Practice of Reserving the Eucharist, With Special Reference to the Communion of the Sick, During the First Twelve Centuries AS no attempt seems to have been made of late to gather material for a history of the practice of reserving the Eucharist, the collection published in the following pages may have some value, in spite of the fact that the author is a novice in ecclesiology. The chief aim, indeed, of the book has been to present in convenient and systematic form passages from readily accessible sources that refer more or less directly to reservation; but as the material has accumulated and fallen into order, certain deductions have become clear and need to be stated. Some criticism will doubtless be disarmed if attention be called here to the limitations and deficiencies of the work. It seemed, in the first place, inadvisable to pursue the subject beyond a date at which the custom of the Western Church had become generally fixed and uniform. By setting a term to the period surveyed, it was possible to confine the attention mainly to the conditions under which reservation was practiced for the sick, without digressing into the discussion of other purposes for which the reserved Eucharist was later employed. A landmark is obviously reached in the Fourth Lateran Council where the most important conclusion about eucharistic doctrine arrived at in the previous era was definitely adopted, and, under the term transubstantiation, became the accepted teaching of the Western Church. It might naturally be asked why, in a history of clinical communion, where the practical question arises as to the advisability or the reverse of employing both species of the sacrament, the survey is not carried down to the date at which concomitance was enunciated as de fide. The answer to this will be found, so the writer believes, in the text of the book itself. The implication of what was afterwards defined as concomitance is here shown to be a constant feature of customs associated with the reserved Eucharist in primitive as well as in later times; and the practice of administering the single species of Bread to the whole and to the sick had become universal in the West long before the specific reassertion at Trent of the doctrine implied. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.