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Tokyo (Fides Service) - Japanese Catholics are living the Year of the Eucharist proclaimed by the late Pope John Paul II with great intensity. Early this year the standing committee of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Japan sent each diocese a digest of a document related to the Year of the Eucharist published by the Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. The excerpts, selected by the members of the Bishops’ Liturgy Committee, offer suggestions about how to celebrate the year. The committee selected and introduced ‘specific proposals that seemed practical for use in Japan’.
The suggestions fall into three categories: basics, liturgy and pastoral care. The first category deals with catechesis regarding the Eucharist and spirituality, the Mass and the relationship between the Eucharist and the lives of May and the saints.
The second focuses on Sunday, Holy Thursday, the Easter Vigil, the feast of Corpus Christi, adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and the Prayer of the Church.
The third category provide suggestions for diocese, parishes, religious houses, seminaries and houses of formation. As conditions in these carious places differ, the digest recommends that they choose whatever may be most apt to their situation.
(PA)(Agenzia Fides 12/5/2005 righe 24 parole 238)
