Posted on 04/30/2002 10:45:13 PM PDT by oremus
‘But I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself.‘ (John 12:32)
"When Peter saw that his master was about to be arrested, he drew his sword, but Jesus stopped him. This was the second time in the course of Jesus' career, that Peter had acted rashly against the spirit and intention of Jesus. Earlier he had remonstrated with Jesus who had announced that he would go to Jerusalem, and there be rejected and killed. Jesus had turned to Peter and rebuked him saying, "Get behind me, Satan." Jesus was intent on a mission in which he would be 'lifted up from the earth." Peter did not accept nor understand this."
"It would be well for us to remember that all the good that we have embraced in our lives, came to us via the sacrificial spirit. Our higher qualities were not pressed or flogged into us by force. We were drawn to them by the appeal of gentler things. The love of mother and father; the fellowship of fine people; the attraction of things good and right."
"The futility of force is seen in its capacity to scatter and sow evil, even in its effort to eliminate it. Those who go to war, often find themselves committing the same barbarities they are seeking to root out. Armies and navies can win battles, but they cannot win the peace. We problems of the human race will never be solved by violence. To expect otherwise is like expecting a cure for aids to arise from fornication."
"One day when Abraham Lincoln was with company in the White House, he made a hopeful and conciliatory remark about the South. A woman heard him, and was angry. "How can you speak like that about your enemies, when you should be seeking their destruction?" Lincoln replied: "What madam? And do I not destroy them when I make them my friends?"
"May the love that was willing to be... 'lifted up from the earth'---find its way into my life."
And indeed it is plain we are to keep that memorial untill He comes again...Just as the Jews were told of the Passover Exd 13:10 Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in his season from year to year.
Like the passover the Lords supper is a memorial to be kept for all time...
Jesus gave His covenant a meal of remembrance
What were the final words of Jesus on the cross???
NO your own doctrine calls it "the unbloody sacrifice" of Calvery...now you have incorporated the memorial meal as ordained by Christ into the mass..but Christ did not at any time say you were to have an unbloody sacrifice. Salvation is in the shedding of blood..
That cup will be drunk at the marriage supper of the Lamb...
"‘Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes has eternal life. I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. This is bread which comes down from heaven, that a man may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if any one eats of this bread, he will live for ever; and the bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh.’ The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, ‘How can this man give us his flesh to eat?’ So Jesus said to them, ‘Truly truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you; he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed’" (John 6:47-55).
I think He makes His point very clear. He had plenty of opportunity to "clarify" His meaning, and I believe that He did.
We actually are not that far apart. The hold up is simply I have faith that Jesus Christ is Really Present in the Holy Eucharist. I believe that in partaking of communion, I welcome Jesus Christ into my body and my soul. The Catholic Mass is about solely about Jesus Christ and his death for our salvation.
God bless you and you family.
Eucharistic BTTT!
Since Christ Himself has said, "This is My Body" who shall dare to doubt that It is His Body?
-- St Cyril of Jerusalem
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