Posted on 04/04/2015 1:59:27 PM PDT by Steelfish
The Resurrection & The Eucharist by Fr. Rodney Kissinger S.J. (Former Missouri Synod Lutheran) http://www.frksj.org/homily_ressurection_and_the_eucharist.htm There is an important connection between the Resurrection and the Eucharist. The Eucharist IS the Risen Jesus.
Therefore, the Eucharist makes the Resurrection present and active in our lives and enables us to experience the joy and the power of the Resurrection. The Resurrection is the reason for the observance of Sunday instead of the Sabbath. According to the Gospel it was early in the morning on the first day of the week that the Risen Jesus appeared to Mary Magdalene.
It was also on the evening of that first day of the week that the Risen Jesus appeared to the Apostles when Thomas was not present. Then a week later, on the first day of the week, he appeared again when Thomas was present.
So the Apostles began to celebrate the first day of the week, Sunday, as the beginning of the re-creation of the world just as they had celebrated the Sabbath as the end of the creation of the world. Originally the Liturgical Year was simply fifty-two Sundays, fifty-two celebrations of the Eucharist, fifty-two celebrations of the Resurrection. Today the Eucharist is still the principal way of celebrating the Resurrection and proclaiming the Mystery of Faith: “Christ has died, Christ is risen, Christ will come again.”
As we have seen the joy and the power of the Resurrection is not found in the empty tomb or in the witness of some one else it is found only in a personal encounter with the Risen Jesus. The Eucharist, the Risen Jesus, gives us an opportunity for this personal encounter. Will all who receive the Eucharist have a personal encounter with the Risen Jesus? Yes they will. Unfortunately, not all will recognize the Risen Jesus. Mary Magdalene had a personal encounter with the Risen Jesus but did not recognize him. She thought it was the gardener. It was not until she recognized Jesus that she experienced the joy and the power of the Resurrection. The two disciples on the road to Emmaus had a personal encounter with the Risen Jesus and thought that it was a stranger. It was not until they recognized him in the “breaking of the bread” that they experienced the joy and the power of the Resurrection.
The Eucharist is also a pledge of our own resurrection. “I am the living bread come down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.” The Eucharist tells us that in death life is changed not ended. It is not so much life after death but life through death. Death is the door to life. This takes away the fear of death and gives us consolation at the death of a loved one.
The Eucharist also continues the two fold effect of the Resurrection which is to confirm the faith of the Apostles and to create the Christian Community. These are two sides of the same coin. To believe is to belong. Community was an integral part of the life of the first Christians. They were of one mind and one heart. When the Apostles asked the Lord to teach them how to pray, he taught them the “OUR Father.” In the Creed we say, “WE believe.” It is a personal commitment made in the community of believers.
The Eucharist also confirms the faith of the recipient and is the principle of unity and community. Without the Christian Community we lose our roots and our identity and our ability to survive in our culture which is diametrically opposed to Christ.
Through the Eucharist the Risen Jesus continues his two fold mission of proclaiming the Good News and healing the sick. Every celebration of the Eucharist proclaims the Good News and heals the sick. The Liturgy of the Word proclaims the Good News and the Liturgy of the Eucharist heals the sick. If people were healed simply by touching the hem of His garment how much more healing must come from receiving His Body and Blood?
How ridiculous it is then when people ask, “Do I have an obligation to go to Mass on Sunday?” If obligation is going to determine whether or not you go to Mass forget the obligation. You have a greater problem than that. Your problem is faith, you don’t believe. You don’t believe that the Eucharist IS the Risen Christ.
You just don’t realize the connection between the Resurrection and the Eucharist. In just a few moments we will receive the Eucharist and once again have an opportunity for a personal encounter with the Risen Jesus.
Let us ask for the faith to recognize him in the “breaking of the bread” so that we are able to say with Thomas, “My Lord and my God,” and in so doing experience the joy and the power of the Resurrection.
Bingo
In your mind, yes... truth and accuracy would be thought relative, as you have proven by your stunted grasp of anything outside of your shoes.
Dodge, deek, change your story. How about picking one and sticking to it.
Pot meet kettle.
The law has never saved anyone..do you understand the purpose of the law?
Or was the last response a doge and weave ?
Romans 8:2
because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.
True.
We will now 'debate' as to whether the guilty BOMBER should receive a death sentence; but it is a FACT that about 0ne MILLION innocents will die this year; because their 'mothers' did not want to be inconvenienced.
I think you Catholkics started thowing things out first.The Septuagint had around 15 books; yet you guys tossed over half of them out.
Why?
Some books that are set apart in the Masoretic text are grouped together. For example the Books of Samuel and the Books of Kings are in the LXX one book in four parts called Βασιλειῶν ("Of Reigns"). In LXX, the Books of Chronicles supplement Reigns and it is called Paraleipoménon (Παραλειπομένων—things left out). The Septuagint organizes the minor prophets as twelve parts of one Book of Twelve.[10]
Some scripture of ancient origin are found in the Septuagint but are not present in the Hebrew. These additional books are Tobit, Judith, Wisdom of Solomon, Wisdom of Jesus son of Sirach, Baruch, Letter of Jeremiah (which later became chapter 6 of Baruch in the Vulgate), additions to Daniel (The Prayer of Azarias, the Song of the Three Children, Susanna and Bel and the Dragon), additions to Esther, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees, 3 Maccabees, 4 Maccabees, 1 Esdras, Odes, including the Prayer of Manasseh, the Psalms of Solomon, and Psalm 151.
The canonical acceptance of these books varies among different Christian traditions, and there are canonical books not derived from the Septuagint. For more information regarding these books, see the articles Biblical apocrypha, Biblical canon, Books of the Bible, and Deuterocanonical books.
If ever there’s a post that demonstrates a total ignorance of what the new covenant is, yours is it.
God never abolished the Law and its requirements.
However, He did change the way He deals with sin and relates to men.
Perhaps if you really came to understand that, you too could be set free from the bondage of a religion of works and into the freedom that Christ gives us.
I’ll be praying for you.
In the OT, the ceremonies and rituals looked ahead to fulfillment.
In the NT, baptism and communion look both back and forward representing in terms that humans can understand, spiritual realities that have occurred in the lives of the believers.
More than likely, yes, but she ended up with a multi year long headache. Joseph must have been frustrated.
:-)
(By the way, ealgeone, how do you pronounce that name? I find myself saying it EEL-gee-own --- as in "God bless EEL-gee-own"--- but I thought I'd better check it out with you.)
The best understanding of "What is the unforgivable sin?" can be gotten by looking for interpretive context throughout the rest of Scripture. As we all know, the governing context for any line of Scripture, is all the rest of Scripture: necessarily so, because it's all inspired, and cannot be internally contradictory. “God is not the Author of confusion” (1 Cor. 14:33).
We know from the rest of Scripture that:
Jesus speaks of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit in the context of exorcism in all of the synoptic gospels: in Mark 3, Matthew 12 and in Luke 12. In all three Gospels He is angered because the Pharisees are saying he casts out demons by the power of Beelzebul. Thus this "speaking against the Holy Spirit" necessarily means identifying goodness as evil (the Pharisees were attributing God's work to the Prince of Demons) and thus shutting out the possibility of receiving the goodness--- in this case, liberation from evil --- which God could have given them through the Holy Spirit.
It's similar to the sin described in Isaiah 5:20: "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that count darkness as light, and light as darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!"
They are calling the work of the Holy Spirit, the work of Beelzebub!
The key here is that Jesus says (in both Matthew and Luke), Therefore -- well, read it all:
Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but blasphemy against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven. And whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven; but He who speaks a word against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this life or in the age to come.Mark emphasized, "He said this because they were saying He had an unclean spirit."
In this case, the sin is the hardening of the sinner's heart against grace, which makes a man refuse to seek pardon. Such a sinner certainly is not forgiven, for he will not ask. This is consistent with ALL the scriptural statements. St. Paul says to Titus, "God's grace has been revealed, and has made salvation possible for the whole human race. (Titus 2). In other words, the blockage is not on God's side ---God has made salvation possible --- , but the blockage is in the stubborn impenitence and hardness of heart of the sinner, insulting the Holy Spirit and rejecting goodness and mercy, right to end.
This is the sin "unto death," which is, even at death's door, final impenitence.
Metmom post 193: God never abolished the Law and its requirements.
Putting these two thoughts together: We are not under a law and it's requirements that were never abolished.
Lucys, Youse got some splainin to do (Desi Arnez accent)
i never said that God abolished the law.. I said the saved are not under it.. BIG DIFFERENCE
Putting these two thoughts together: We are not under a law and it's requirements that were never abolished. Lucys, Youse got some splainin to do (Desi Arnez accent)
Galatians 3:1-29 will clarify this. It's only 29 verses...won't take to long to read.
Would these be the same Jews that demanded Christ be crucified after turning Him over to the Romans? The same Jews that deny the validity of The covenant established by the Blood of Christ? The same Jews that ignore the entire New Testament?
Well it is a good thing I am not asking them and am asking someone that claims to be a Christian.
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