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To: Claud
But we're not worshiping matter. We've said over and over: the Host is Christ. The bread is gone. Disappeared. Vanished. Annihilated. Only Christ is there. So we are worshiping only Christ. You can argue we're deluded about that, but you cannot say we are guilty of the sin of idolatry because we are not worshiping anything other than what we really and truly believe to be the One True God.

A prominent Catholic once said the following:

"Eucharistic devotion such as is noted in the silent visit by the devout in church must not be thought of as a conversation with God. This would assume that God was present there locally and in a confined way. To justify such an assertion shows a lack of understanding of the Christological mysteries of the very concept of God. This is repugnant to the serious thinking of the man who knows about the omnipresence of God. To go to church on the ground that one can visit God who is present there is a senseless act which modern man rightfully rejects.”
244 posted on 02/22/2008 5:03:29 AM PST by armydoc
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To: armydoc
A prominent Catholic once said the following:

Prominent heretic, it sounds like.

246 posted on 02/22/2008 5:12:13 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: armydoc
A prominent Catholic once said the following:

"Eucharistic devotion such as is noted in the silent visit by the devout in church must not be thought of as a conversation with God. This would assume that God was present there locally and in a confined way. To justify such an assertion shows a lack of understanding of the Christological mysteries of the very concept of God. This is repugnant to the serious thinking of the man who knows about the omnipresence of God. To go to church on the ground that one can visit God who is present there is a senseless act which modern man rightfully rejects.”

What prominent Catholic said that? It smacks of manifest heresy to me, absolutely repugnant to the thinking of the Church. That is God in the tabernacle, it doesn't matter one fig what "modern man" thinks about it.

271 posted on 02/22/2008 7:45:30 AM PST by Claud
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