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Revista Eucarística is a Roman Catholic periodical devoted to Eucharistic theology, liturgical practice, and devotional life. Founded in the late 19th century, the journal has engaged clerical, monastic, academic, and lay audiences across Europe and Latin America, interacting with figures and institutions from the First Vatican Council era through the Second Vatican Council and into contemporary debates associated with Pope Francis, Pope Benedict XVI, and Pope John Paul II. Its pages have intersected with developments linked to Gregorian chant, Dominican Order, Jesuits, Benedictines, Franciscans, and diocesan initiatives in cities such as Rome, Lyon, Barcelona, Lisbon, and Buenos Aires.
The journal originated amid Catholic revival movements connected to the Oxford Movement, Ultramontanism, and Catholic social teaching debates influenced by the Rerum Novarum encyclical of Pope Leo XIII. Early editors corresponded with architects of liturgical renewal including Dom Prosper Guéranger, Dom Lambert Beauduin, and scholars in the milieu of Université catholique de Louvain, Pontifical Gregorian University, and Pontifical Biblical Institute. During the upheavals of the World War I era and the Spanish Civil War, contributors referenced events in Paris, Madrid, Vienna, and Warsaw while engaging with theological currents from Cardinal Merry del Val to Cardinal Mercier. In the mid-20th century the journal responded to preparatory discussions for the Second Vatican Council, citing liturgists associated with Pope Pius XII, Annibale Bugnini, Dom Jean Daniélou, and scholars from Institut Catholique de Paris. Post-conciliar decades saw interaction with episcopal conferences such as those in Argentina, Brazil, Portugal, Spain, and Poland as debates over liturgical translation and inculturation involved voices linked to CELAM, USCCB, and the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.
Editorial direction combined doctrinal exposition, pastoral guidance, historical scholarship, and liturgical instruction, engaging with sources like the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the Roman Missal, and patristic corpora including works by St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. John Chrysostom, Origen, and St. Gregory of Nazianzus. The journal regularly reviewed monographs from publishers such as Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Paulist Press, and university faculties at Harvard Divinity School, Yale Divinity School, Regensburg, and Gregorian University. It published comparative analyses referencing theologians and liturgists including Karl Rahner, Joseph Ratzinger, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Henri de Lubac, and Yves Congar. Pastoral notes connected sacramental theology to parish practice in dioceses overseen by prelates like Cardinal Ratzinger, Cardinal Kasper, Cardinal Sarah, and bishops affiliated with Opus Dei and missionary societies such as the Society of Jesus and PIME.
Contributors ranged from monastics like Dom Jean Leclercq and Dom Alcuin Reid to scriptural scholars at École Biblique, Biblical Commission members, and historians affiliated with Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Vatican Library. Notable articles debated Eucharistic presence citing Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologica, medieval treatises by St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Anselm, and modern commentaries by Gustavo Gutiérrez, Karl Barth, Stanley Hauerwas, Elizabeth A. Johnson, and N.T. Wright. The journal published liturgical music studies referencing Palestrina, Gregorian chant, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, J.S. Bach in comparative liturgy essays, and hymnology notes referencing Hymns Ancient and Modern and Taizé. Ecumenical dialogues in its pages referenced World Council of Churches, Anglican Communion, Lutheran World Federation, and dialogues involving Eastern Orthodox theologians like Metropolitan Kallistos Ware.
Distribution networks connected to publishers and ecclesiastical distributors in Milan, Barcelona, Porto, Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, Mexico City, and Quebec City. Subscriptions were held by seminaries such as St. John Vianney Seminary, Pontifical North American College, and theological faculties at University of Navarra and Universidad Católica Argentina. Libraries and archives including the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, British Library, Bibliothèque nationale de France, and the Library of Congress acquired runs for research. The journal’s reach extended to parish libraries in dioceses attended by pilgrims to shrines like Lourdes, Fátima, Santiago de Compostela, Rome’s Basilica of Saint John Lateran, and St. Peter's Basilica.
Scholars in liturgical studies and sacramental theology at institutions such as Notre Dame (University of Notre Dame), Catholic University of America, KU Leuven, Boston College, Gregorian University, and University of Fribourg cited the journal in debates over eucharistic doctrine and pastoral practice. Bishops, cardinals, and curial officials referenced its positions in synods and conferences tied to Synod of Bishops, World Youth Day, and regional councils like those convened by CELAM and the Portuguese Episcopal Conference. The periodical influenced hymnody and rites discussed in commissions overseen by Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments and ecumenical statements negotiated with representatives of Anglicanism, Lutheranism, Orthodoxy, and Methodism.
Critics from conservative and progressive circles invoked disputes involving liturgical reformers such as Annibale Bugnini, theologians like Karl Rahner and Yves Congar, and figures in curial debates including Cardinal Ratzinger and Cardinal Ottaviani. Controversies touched on reception of Liturgy of the Hours revisions, translation controversies similar to debates over the New International Version in biblical translation debates, and tensions linked to liturgical inculturation in contexts involving Liberation Theology, Pentecostalism, and indigenous rites in Amazonas pastoral projects. Academic reviewers in journals from Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, and Brill critiqued methodological approaches, while episcopal statements in dioceses from Lisbon to Buenos Aires contested pastoral recommendations.
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