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"We don’t need someone to stand in or be “another Christ”."

You must have been listening to a crackpot fake doctor who used to rant about this on these threads. I thought this was put to bed along time ago.

“Through Him, with Him, and in Him, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, all honor and glory is yours, Almighty Father, forever and ever.” Echoing Romans 11:36 this is more than a simple doxology. With these words, the Priest humbly prepares to pronounce the Words of Institution, in persona Christi, clearly stating that it is Christ, not he the priest, presiding over the miracle of the Eucharist.

For the one moment that the Eucharist is consecrated and transubstantiated the priest succeeds in becoming a perfect Imitation of Christ.

Remember, the call to be transformed and imitate Jesus is not reserved only to priests. We are all called in Scripture to imitate Christ. It is God’s desire that each of us “be conformed to the likeness of his Son” (Romans 8:29). Whenever a Christian sacrifices out of love for another, he is acting “in persona Christi”, in the person of Christ, or as an “alter Christus”. Scriptural commands are plentiful; (Matthew 16:24; Luke 6:40; 1 John 2:6; John 13:15; 1 Corinthians 11:1; 2 Corinthians 3:18, Ephesians 4:13, Galatians 4:19 and 1 Peter 2:21,22.) Yet some who claim that all of the revealed Word of God is contained in Scripture ignore and ridicule and insult Catholic priests for heeding this call.

Contrary to the disinformation, misinformation and outright lies presented like some kind of touchdown celebration on these threads, the priest does not become “another Christ”. Those assertions are either ignorant or malicious. Nowhere does the Church use the term “Alter Jesu” as some suggest or imply.

As we observe too frequentlt, rhe literal translation of Catholic dogma, written in Vulgate Latin, into modern English is a fool’s errand and there is no shortage of fools prowling the Religion Forum.

For those with no formal education in Catholic dogma, doctrine and history and no fluency in Latin non-eisegesistic translation is an impossible task. Their “Googlesterium” is at best a joke and too often it is a tool of evil and of those intent on doing evil. The attempts posted repeatedly in the Religion Forum are embarrassingly and painfully flawed. With so much disinformation, misinformation and outright lies it is important that the truth be told.