The Presence of Christ in the Gathered Assembly

The Dogmatic Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy of  Vatican II reiterates the church's traditional teaching on the manifold presence of Christ in his church, especially in liturgical celebrations: in the priest, the consecrated bread and wine, the sacraments, and when the gathered church prays and sings. Nevertheless, there continues to exist in both scholarly writing and popular piety an almost exclusive focus on  the presence of Christ in the eucharistic species. The purpose of this book is to…