The first celebrant
National Catholic Reporter, June 6, 2003 by Frannie Schafer
* John L. Allen in "Encyclical reflects on Eucharist" (NCR, April 25) quotes the pope's image of Mary as "in some way a tabernacle, the first tabernacle in history." What the pope has missed and the church has always overlooked is that in an essential way, Mary is the first celebrant of the Eucharist. She was the first to change bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ and she did it through her body's natural processes.
Undoubtedly at its heart the Eucharist is a maternal miracle.
FRANNIE SCHAFER
Brooklyn, N.Y.
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