On the other hand, it could be that none of that is “baggage” after all...
If the True Presence is correct, you might just need to reexamine a lot of preconceived notions ;-)
You guys are tearing me up- had to quit politics for a while
1 COR 11: 24 “And when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.”
Remembrance is symbolic, not actual. Did you actually die with Christ? Spritually, yes. Physically, no. Not yet.
Don’t need a priest to interceed ( the veil of the Temple was rent). Mary was a normal woman, chosen by God to bear the Savior- not the Mother of God, immaculately conceived.
God has managed to carry forward His Truth; but perhaps we should all be ready to shed our non-Scriptural dogma.
Flame suit on- gotta go to work- catch you later, FRiends.
My thoughts exactly.
If one believes the words of Jesus and believes the Eucharist is found in the Church, then why is it difficult to accept the teachings of the Immaculate Conception, Perpetual Virginity and other such doctrines.
Some would say that I am brainwashed or not thinking for myself, but they would be wrong.
My belief in the True Presence comes straight from reading Scripture which then led me to the Church.