<\/p>\nTo be sure, there are sabbatarians and other evangelicals who have a quite different understanding of the imperative of communal worship on the Lord\u2019s Day. For the informed Catholic, the proposal of Faith in Action will be simply incomprehensible. The Church\u2019s understanding of Sunday, from the apostolic era to the present, is comprehensively set forth in John Paul II\u2019s 1998 apostolic letter Dies Domini (the Lord\u2019s Day). It is precisely in the community gathered for worship, and most expressly in the Eucharist, that the Church \u201cputs its faith into action,\u201d \u201cfocuses on Christ\u2019s teaching,\u201d including the command to \u201cdo this\u201d in remembrance of him, and offers its chief service (Greek: leitourgia) to God and to the world. The Eucharist is, in the words of the Second Vatican Council, \u201cthe source and summit\u201d of the Church\u2019s life. The observance of Dies Domini is not optional but constitutive. It is the supreme expression of \u201cfaith in action,\u201d as is Christ\u2019s presence with the gathered community the source of all other faithful actions.<\/p>\n
I expect the misguided proposal of Faith in Action will have relatively few takers among evangelicals. But the fact that it is even proposed lends a measure of credibility to some people\u2019s claim that evangelical and Catholic are two radically different and incompatible ways of being Christian.<\/font><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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