Posted on 07/25/2021 11:13:33 AM PDT by MurphsLaw
Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
John 6:1-15
Friends, our Gospel today focuses on St. John’s intense meditation on the meaning of the Eucharist. The tone is set with the familiar story of the feeding of the five thousand, the only miracle story mentioned in each of the four Gospels. This scene deeply affected the first Christians.
Jesus instructs the crowd to recline on the grass. Taking the barley loaves and dried fish, Jesus makes a meal that satisfies the enormous crowd. They are hungry, tired, and worn out from their exertions, and Jesus gives them sustenance for the day.
For Thomas Aquinas, the great metaphor for the Eucharist is sustenance, food for the journey. Baptism defines us, making us sons and daughters of God; Confirmation confirms and deepens this identity; Marriage and Holy Orders seal us in our life’s vocation. These are sacraments offered once at key moments in one’s life.
Then there is the Eucharist, which is daily food, nourishment to get us through the day-to-day. How effective would we be if we never ate, or ate only on special occasions and in a festive environment? Not very. So, in the spiritual life, we must eat and drink or we will not have the strength.
So TV masses are nice to supplement your faith, but if possible go to the real thing.
God help us!
Is it "ruthless" to expose Cdl. Blase Cupich's support for active homosexuals receiving sacrilegious Holy Communion?
These things — which are grave sins — are outrageous, and they cry to heaven for vengeance (a vengeance Almighty God will extract one way or another). But to describe revelations of these very public sins as "ruthless" is immature and childish on Barron's part. Barron has had his knickers in a bunch over Church Militant ever since we went after his grave error of suggesting that "we have a reasonable hope that all men are saved."
His entire Church of Nice structure is built on that ridiculous foundation — on an over-emphasis on God's mercy to the utter rejection of divine justice. As long as Barron gets to sit back and paint himself as the reasonable middle, he gets to skate. We called his bluff.
You were doing so good....
They all think they're the ones in charge. We can't sit back and allow that to happen, can we?
Remember, Murph, it's Church Militant; not Church Milquetoast.
So who is the queen bee?
I’m not surprised you had to ask.
Thanks for admitting both Bergoglio and Barron are heretics.
Secondly, you don't seem too busy at all; just waiting around for Barron's once-a-day emails to hit your inbox.
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