The Sacrament of Desire. Brief Contribution to Think about Access to the Sacraments in Times of Social, Preventive and Mandatory Isolation by COVID-19

Authors

  • Agustín Podestá Universidad del Salvador

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46553/teo.57.132.2020.p109-126

Keywords:

Spiritual Communion, Baptism of Desire, Sacrament of Desire, COVID-19, Masses.

Abstract

Due to the Preventive and Mandatory Social Isolation, because of COVID-19, the temples had to close their doors and many priests began to celebrate masses online and, with them, the practice of “spiritual communion” reappeared. In this text we propose to briefly review this category to replace it with another more present in the early Church and in the first Christians: “the sacrament of desire”. The explanation will be from documents of the Magisterium of the Church, especially conciliar, valuing both texts and contexts, which allow us to delve into history and experience rather than in rigid formulations.

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Author Biography

Agustín Podestá, Universidad del Salvador

El autor, que ha realizado su Maestría en Teología con una investigación sobre El catecismo de Sarmiento, en la Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina, es profesor e investigador en la
Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

References

Documentos

Agustín de Hipona, De Civitate Dei. Disponible online https://www.augustinus.it /spagnolo/cdd/index2.htm [consulta: 6 de mayo de 2020]

Catecismo de la Iglesia Católica. Disponible online http://www.vatican.va/archive/ catechism_sp/index_sp.html [consulta: 6 de mayo de 2020]

Denzinger, Heinrich; Hunerman, Peter (comps.), El Magisterio de la Iglesia. Enchiridion symbolorum definitionum et declarationum de rebus fidei et morum. Barcelona: Ed. Herder, 2006.

Juan Pablo II, Ecclesia de Eucharistia. Disponible online https:// www.vatican.va/ holy_father/special_features/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_20030417_ecclesia_eucharistia_sp.html [consulta: 6 de mayo de 2020]

Artículos

Bertolini, Alejandro, De misas y pantallas. La vida eucarística en tiempos de aislamiento. http://sociedadargentinateologia.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/De-misas-y-pantallas-IIBertolini-.pdf [consulta: 6 de mayo de 2020]

Luciani, Rafael. Es la hora de ayunar del Pan y aprender a comulgar con la Palabra. https://www.religiondigital.org/opinion/Rafael-Luciani-Pan-aprender-Palabra-Iglesia-religion-coronavirusmisas_0_2215878417.html [consulta: 6 de mayo de 2020]

Published

08/24/2020

How to Cite

Podestá, A. (2020). The Sacrament of Desire. Brief Contribution to Think about Access to the Sacraments in Times of Social, Preventive and Mandatory Isolation by COVID-19. Teología, 57(132), 109–126. https://doi.org/10.46553/teo.57.132.2020.p109-126

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