Posted on 01/02/2017 4:25:11 AM PST by BlessedBeGod
...If the Church were to change its rules on shared Eucharistic Communion it would go against Revelation and the Magisterium, leading Christians to commit blasphemy and sacrilege, an Italian theologian has warned.
Drawing on the Churchs teaching based on Sacred Scripture and Tradition, Msgr. Nicola Bux, a former consulter to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, stressed that non-Catholic Christians must have undertaken baptism and confirmation in the Catholic Church, and repented of grave sin through sacramental confession, in order to be able to receive Jesus in the Eucharist.
Msgr. Bux was responding to the Register about concerns that elements of the current pontificate might be sympathetic of a form of open Communion proposed by the German Protestant theologian, Jürgen Moltmann.
The concerns have arisen primarily due to the Holy Fathers own comments on Holy Communion and Lutherans, his apparent support for some remarried divorcees to receive Holy Communion, and how others have used his frequently repeated maxim about the Eucharist: that it is not a prize for the perfect, but a powerful medicine and nourishment for the weak.
The debate specifically over intercommunion with Christian denominations follows recent remarks by Cardinal Walter Kasper who, in a Dec. 10 interview with Avvenire, said he hopes Pope Francis next declaration will open the way for intercommunion with other denominations in special cases.
The German theologian said shared Eucharistic communion is just a matter of time, and that the Popes recent participation in the Reformation commemoration in Lund has given a new thrust to the ecumenical process.
Pope Francis has often expressed his admiration for Cardinal Kaspers theology whose thinking has significantly influenced the priorities of this pontificate, particularly on the Eucharist.
For Moltmann, Holy Communion is the Lord's supper, not something organized by a church or a denomination...
(Excerpt) Read more at ncregister.com ...
Except this Francis fellow; of course.
Huh?
Where'd this 'earth' thing come from??
Matthew recorded:
For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
I think that the 2 or 3 are 'worshiping in SPIRIT and truth'.
What does it take? Two or Three?
An entire COUNTER Reformation perhaps??
“Heretic!”
Careful not to devolve to the liberal tactic of name-calling when having no other argument.
You know exactly what I mean. Jesus clarified and changed how we approached the rules in the OT, and you know it.
The point is: throwing out the Torah to tear down the Eucharist does not work. Read Jesus’ response in John 6.
It is. The EXACT same thing.
They are joining the ranks of Luther in protesting the direction the church is going, just as he did in his day.
The teaching violates God’s clear command to NOT eat blood, that the blood is for atonement, NOT consumption.
To start with.
Sounds familiar, doesn't it?
What part of OT Law did He change that lessened the impact of the Law?
Go back and reread my post. It’s more than an interpretation of John 6.
No.
ealgeone is helping me.
So are 2 millennium of Christians of history which is denied, ignored, and rewritten by heretics and schismatics.
The protestants are all about fighting their own battles and so will lose sorely.
Repent and believe.
FYI some of those listed are in total communion (at least prior to 1958) while others are Catholic in name only.
Regarding the first you are like someone who accuses a family of being divided because some are girls, others boys, some have black hair, others red, some are tall, others short.
Catholic means universal and you here demonstrate why you are not one. Protestant in one sense means narrow-minded as relates my illustration and as relates to fear of supporting scripture with tradition.
Where’s your protestant list? Or do protestants only study “catholics”?
No - that is why Jesus’ followers left him in John 6. And He let them go.
Isaiah 42:8
“I am the LORD; that is my name! I will not give my glory to anyone else, nor share my praise with carved idols.
Using statues and paintings to help us pray and worship the Lord our God is not sharing his praise with carved idols. You poor protestants are like the Jansenists who thought every physical thing is bad, and even condemned licit copulation in marriage.
There is much history on the hatred of sacred art:
The origin of the movement against the worship (for the use of this word see VENERATION OF IMAGES) of images has been much discussed. It has been represented as an effect of Moslem influence. To Moslems, any kind of picture, statue, or representation of the human form is an abominable idol.
Read more at:
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07620a.htm
Be free of your mental bondage, that your faith may grow strong.
I was referring to the “in remembrance” interpretation.
Jesus poured out His blood for our sins.
The wine is symbolic of His blood.
It does not "change" into blood as some catholics believe.
“A blog is sufficient proof?
Thats pushing it a bit.
Besides, which article is it in.”
http://novusordowatch.org/start-here/
(Re. : “...the 1983 Code of Canon Law is not a Catholic document. That is because it was authored by heretics and apostates, not the true Catholic Church...”)
“The so-called Vatican II was a council sadly held by apostates.”
“So judgemental!
Why do you think GOD allowed such a thing to happen??”
You’ve probably read the account written by Saint John on “the great apostasy”.
See:
http://novusordowatch.org/2016/04/sanborn-conference-audios/
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