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To: Mrs. Don-o
That's right. I always point out to my RCIA students that the Holy Eucharist is the only Sacrament which comes to us not only with a blessing but with an explicit curse.

I would argue that baptism also has a curse motif associated with it. The NT points to Noah through the flood, and Israel through the Red Sea as OT baptisms -- safe passage through the waters of judgement.

A discussion for another time.

59 posted on 02/01/2014 8:01:35 AM PST by Lee N. Field ("You keep using that verse, but I do not think it means what you think it means.")
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To: Lee N. Field

Thank you. A comment that will make me think.


67 posted on 02/01/2014 8:42:50 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Sanity is the adequate response of the mind to the real thing: adaequatio mentis ad rem.)
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