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To: Tao Yin

Well, it is true now, but at the start of the Reformation there were priests who were still properly ordained (and could still confect the Eucharist). Over time, however, those priests died and the Old Rite was changed so that it was no longer a Catholic Rite. As a result, the New Rite became invalid and did not ordain true Catholic priests that can confect the Eucharist.


18 posted on 01/22/2016 3:48:16 PM PST by piusv (The Spirit of Christ hasn't refrained from using separated churches as means of salvation:VII heresy)
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To: piusv

Didn’t bishops leave the Catholic Church as well, and couldn’t they ordain more priests & bishops (as Archbishop Lefebvre did)?


24 posted on 01/22/2016 4:03:23 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: piusv

“Confect”? Do you mean that the priest himself brings about the consecration as if by magic? This would make your priests fundamentally different from ours. As I recall, one of the elements of the Liturgy the medieval Latin Church did away with was the epiklesis. Is that because Rome thought the HS had nothing to do with the sacrament?

BTW, while we can apparently receive the Eucharist at one of your liturgies (but don’t, properly), we do not return the gesture.


26 posted on 01/22/2016 4:24:39 PM PST by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen and you, O death, are annihilated!)
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