[Cronos]

"There was no new covenant in the time frame covered by the gospels "

Come on now -- Jesus came to give the new covenant! The Gospels are the core teachings of Christ -- and that is why they were what was preached in the first generation of Christians and that is why they are the source on which +Paul comments.

Now, Do you agree that the Gospels and the Beatitudes are the most important part of the New Covenant?

The Church lives and breathes scripture and Tradition -- neither contradicting each other. At Mass each Sunday we read from the Old Testament, the Gospels, the Epistles and the rest of the New Testament, we sing psalms, we teach, we learn, we preach, we listen, we experience a personal relationship with Christ in the Eucharist, we remember with awe and trembling His sacrifice, we celebrate His life, we mourn His death and we rejoice at His resurrection and ascension into Heaven, we repeat our words of belief in God the Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit, the Triune God, God from God, light from light, True God from True God. This is The Church of Christ in His fullness, THIS is the One Holy Apostolic and Catholic Church, Christ's Church, protected by the Holy Spirit and keeping the faith as taught by Christ through His Apostles and their disciples and their disciples disciples.

[RnMomof7]

Please show me where jesus teaches that the apostles have the right or authority to pass on the gifts and position He gave to them.. The belief in apostolic succession is made up out of whole cloth

[Iscool]

we experience a personal relationship with Christ in the Eucharist

No you don't...A personal relationship with Jesus comes from the heart, not the stomach...Jesus is no more in your crackers than God is in a black rock in Mecca...

Jesus has died...He is NOT dying...He is risen...

Preach the Gospel of the risen Lord, the Gospel of Grace...