--- title: Blog Posts – Church Life Journal | Laura Taylor description: Laura Taylor, M.T.S., is House Director of the Teach Bhríde (House of Brigid) postgraduate service program in Wexford, Ireland. She will be enrolling in the Ph.D. program in Liturgical Studies at the University of Notre Dame this fall. --- Search [![churchlife](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/hubfs/Churchlife_Aug2016_Theme/Images/church-life-journal-white-horizontal-1.png)](http://churchlife.nd.edu/) - [Essays](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays) - [Articles](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/articles) - [Blog](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/blog-post) - [Contributors](http://churchlife.nd.edu/contributors/) All posts filed under: BLOG POSTS ## Laura Taylor ![](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/hubfs/Author_images/McGrath%20Logo%20Stamp.png) Laura Taylor, M.T.S., is House Director of the Teach Bhríde (House of Brigid) postgraduate service program in Wexford, Ireland. She will be enrolling in the Ph.D. program in Liturgical Studies at the University of Notre Dame this fall. ### Recent Posts [![](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/04-DSC09091-MassMobs-Noelle.jpg)](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/blog-post/2016/04/27/the-mass-for-millennials-communion-rite) ## [The Mass for Millennials: Communion Rite](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/blog-post/2016/04/27/the-mass-for-millennials-communion-rite) Published by [Laura Taylor](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/blog-post/author/laura-taylor) The first time I attended Mass while studying abroad in Italy six years ago, I was nearly trampled in the sudden surge forward at Holy Communion. The nice, familiar, genteel, orderly lines cultivated through years of practice back home in the States? Totally abandoned. At first, I thought it was just an Italian thing, like the frenetic and bewildering rush for one’s daily *cappuccino e cornetto* in ... 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