Posted on 04/04/2015 1:59:27 PM PDT by Steelfish
The Resurrection & The Eucharist by Fr. Rodney Kissinger S.J. (Former Missouri Synod Lutheran) http://www.frksj.org/homily_ressurection_and_the_eucharist.htm There is an important connection between the Resurrection and the Eucharist. The Eucharist IS the Risen Jesus.
Therefore, the Eucharist makes the Resurrection present and active in our lives and enables us to experience the joy and the power of the Resurrection. The Resurrection is the reason for the observance of Sunday instead of the Sabbath. According to the Gospel it was early in the morning on the first day of the week that the Risen Jesus appeared to Mary Magdalene.
It was also on the evening of that first day of the week that the Risen Jesus appeared to the Apostles when Thomas was not present. Then a week later, on the first day of the week, he appeared again when Thomas was present.
So the Apostles began to celebrate the first day of the week, Sunday, as the beginning of the re-creation of the world just as they had celebrated the Sabbath as the end of the creation of the world. Originally the Liturgical Year was simply fifty-two Sundays, fifty-two celebrations of the Eucharist, fifty-two celebrations of the Resurrection. Today the Eucharist is still the principal way of celebrating the Resurrection and proclaiming the Mystery of Faith: Christ has died, Christ is risen, Christ will come again.
As we have seen the joy and the power of the Resurrection is not found in the empty tomb or in the witness of some one else it is found only in a personal encounter with the Risen Jesus. The Eucharist, the Risen Jesus, gives us an opportunity for this personal encounter. Will all who receive the Eucharist have a personal encounter with the Risen Jesus? Yes they will. Unfortunately, not all will recognize the Risen Jesus. Mary Magdalene had a personal encounter with the Risen Jesus but did not recognize him. She thought it was the gardener. It was not until she recognized Jesus that she experienced the joy and the power of the Resurrection. The two disciples on the road to Emmaus had a personal encounter with the Risen Jesus and thought that it was a stranger. It was not until they recognized him in the breaking of the bread that they experienced the joy and the power of the Resurrection.
The Eucharist is also a pledge of our own resurrection. I am the living bread come down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world. The Eucharist tells us that in death life is changed not ended. It is not so much life after death but life through death. Death is the door to life. This takes away the fear of death and gives us consolation at the death of a loved one.
The Eucharist also continues the two fold effect of the Resurrection which is to confirm the faith of the Apostles and to create the Christian Community. These are two sides of the same coin. To believe is to belong. Community was an integral part of the life of the first Christians. They were of one mind and one heart. When the Apostles asked the Lord to teach them how to pray, he taught them the OUR Father. In the Creed we say, WE believe. It is a personal commitment made in the community of believers.
The Eucharist also confirms the faith of the recipient and is the principle of unity and community. Without the Christian Community we lose our roots and our identity and our ability to survive in our culture which is diametrically opposed to Christ.
Through the Eucharist the Risen Jesus continues his two fold mission of proclaiming the Good News and healing the sick. Every celebration of the Eucharist proclaims the Good News and heals the sick. The Liturgy of the Word proclaims the Good News and the Liturgy of the Eucharist heals the sick. If people were healed simply by touching the hem of His garment how much more healing must come from receiving His Body and Blood?
How ridiculous it is then when people ask, Do I have an obligation to go to Mass on Sunday? If obligation is going to determine whether or not you go to Mass forget the obligation. You have a greater problem than that. Your problem is faith, you dont believe. You dont believe that the Eucharist IS the Risen Christ.
You just dont realize the connection between the Resurrection and the Eucharist. In just a few moments we will receive the Eucharist and once again have an opportunity for a personal encounter with the Risen Jesus.
Let us ask for the faith to recognize him in the breaking of the bread so that we are able to say with Thomas, My Lord and my God, and in so doing experience the joy and the power of the Resurrection.
**No, what it denies is your interpretation of those scriptures.**
No, they are denying the words of Jesus Christ: “..Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape”. Jn 5:37.
They are denying the words of John: “No man hath seen God at any time”. Jn 1:18; 1Jn 4:12
They are denying the words of Paul, who said that Jesus Christ is “the image of the invisible God”. Col. 1:15
They are denying the words of the writer of Hebrews, speaking of Moses: “for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible”. Heb. 11:27
All of those quotes are from testamonies WRITTEN well AFTER Stephen witnessed seeing Jesus Christ “standing on the right hand of God”.
The ‘right hand’ is symbolic of the power of God. Jesus Christ said that ALL POWER is GIVEN him “in heaven and in earth” (Matt. 28:18). Think that that is my private interpretation?....read the ‘right hand’ usage in the OT; the same OT scriptures that Stephen AND the Pharisees were VERY familiar with:
“thy right hand, O Lord, is become glorious in power: the right hand, O Lord, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.” Ex. 15:6
“Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them.” Ex 15:12
“Shew thy marvelous loving kindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them.’ Ps. 17:7 (there are a lot of ‘right hand’ passages in Psalms).
“That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm...”. Isa. 63:12
**The Father and Son are one in purpose.**
Read this reeeeeelly slow: “Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been SO LONG WITH YOU, and yet HAST THOU NOT KNOWN ME, Philip? he that hath seen me HATH seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father? Believest thou NOT that I am IN the Father, and the Father IN me? the words I speak unto you I speak NOT of myself: but the Father that DWELLETH IN ME, HE doeth the works.” Jn 14:8-10
**Mark 15:34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
This alone is undeniable proof that the Father and Son are two different and separate people. If not, how could one forsake the other?**
God the Father (a Spirit. see Jn 4:24. defined by the ONE who would know better than Joseph Smith EVER could), dwelled in Jesus Christ, took his power from him so that he WOULD die.
Otherwise, the same Spirit that multiplied the loaves and fishes, and turned water into wine, could have kept an endless supply of blood flowing through his body, and tissues reparing themselves endlessly as well. Do you believe that God could have done that if he had so desired?
**Stephen looked into heaven and saw God sitting on His throne and Jesus standing at His right hand.**
You added: “sitting on his throne”. That helps your interpretation, in an inaccurate fashion.
**God showed Himself to Joseph Smith in order to clear up these false concepts of God that have come from the imaginations of men. Therefore we don’t have to debate the subject. God has a body, Joseph saw it.**
Joseph Smith was a false prophet, and saw no such thing. Yes, that my opinion. But, the whole of the scriptures tell the facts.
Thanks for the reply, though!
;^)
And that's why all nations call her blessed.
All nations are NOT told to call her anything else; but Rome has evidently decided differently.
Because THIS pours continually from the mouths of Catholics:
Hail Mary; Mother of GOD...
and not...
Hail Jesus; Son of GOD...
Your comments highlighted there at the top of the page.
Those are mutually exclusive.
One simply cannot give birth from realm of spirit -- unless they are
and have god-like powers of being able to reproduce as it were, in realms of spirit.
Or else if you see Kolob, tell him hie.
(Elsie would get that joke)
Then there is the thing about prayers to departed saints being (near entirely?) absent from historical records prior to near the 4th century. Way back at #642
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/3275781/posts?page=642#642
Meanwhile, which Roman Catholic is it that has moderator privileges and keeps reads comments while those are still in review, and then tipping off select FRomans about what may be coming down the pike?
Batting a thousand means 100% success at an endeavor. Even better! ;o)
I know my church is twue!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkUnyXkT5FQ
Good question; but the one that SHOULD have been asked is:
If the LDS religion is TRUE; why does it contain so much error?
Perhaps you can use it in Sunday School class some time...
Oh?
Who is showing whom here??
Better than that; he has actual historical data to post!!
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
in Missouri
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Today, William W. Phelps is probably best-known for his legacy of LDS hymns, many of which appear in the current edition of the LDS Hymnal.[6]
A scribe to Joseph Smith Jr., for some time, in late 1838 Phelps was one of several who bore witness against Smith and other leaders, aiding in their imprisonment in Missouri until April 1839. In June 1840, Phelps plead for forgiveness in a letter to Smith. Smith replied with an offer of full fellowship, and ended with the famous couplet, "'Come on, dear brother, since the war is past, For friends at first are friends again at last.'"[4]
It was decided that Phelps, along with Frederick G. Williams, could be ordained as elders and serve missions abroad. Phelps served a brief mission in the eastern United States in 1841. Phelps moved to Nauvoo, Illinois where on August 27, 1841, he replaced Robert B. Thompson (who had died) as Joseph Smith's clerk. Beginning in February 1843, Phelps became the ghostwriter of many of Smith's important written works of the Nauvoo period, including General Joseph Smith's Appeal to the Green Mountain Boys of November 1843, Smith's theodemocratic presidential platform of January 1844, and The Voice of Innocence which was presented to and unanimously approved by the Relief Society in February 1844 to rebut claims of polygamy in Nauvoo arising out of Orsimus Bostwick's lawsuit accusing Hyrum Smith of polygamy and other sexual misconduct with the women of Nauvoo.[5]
Phelps was endowed on December 9, 1843, received his "second anointing" promising him godhood on February 2, 1844, and was also made a member of the Council of Fifty. In Nauvoo, Phelps spoke out in favor of the destruction of an opposition newspaper, the Nauvoo Expositor. He believed that the city charter gave the church leaders power to declare the newspaper a nuisance. Shortly afterwards, the press and type were carried into the street and destroyed. Phelps was summoned to be tried for treason with Joseph Smith at Carthage, Illinois.
During the Mormon Succession Crisis in 1844, Phelps sided with Brigham Young and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. He was again excommunicated on December 9, 1848 for entering into an unauthorized polygamous marriage, but was rebaptized two days later.[citation needed] He took part in the Mormon Exodus across the Great Plains and settled in Salt Lake City in 1849. He served a mission in southern Utah Territory (as counselor to Parley P. Pratt) from November 1849 to February 1850. There he served in the Utah territorial legislature and on the board of regents for the University of Deseret (now the University of Utah). Phelps died on March 7, 1872 in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory. He was buried at Salt Lake City Cemetery.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._W._Phelps_(Mormon)
Oh??
6 Jesus saith to him: I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father, but by me.
7 If you had known me, you would without doubt have known my Father also: and from henceforth you shall know him, and you have seen him.
8 Philip saith to him: Lord, shew us the Father, and it is enough for us.
9 Jesus saith to him: Have I been so long a time with you; and have you not known me? Philip, he that seeth me seeth the Father also. How sayest thou, shew us the Father?
10 Do you not believe, that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I speak to you, I speak not of myself. But the Father who abideth in me, he doth the works.
11 Believe you not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me?
There be some sneaky Trinitarian doctrine in the above verses!
1 Let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe also in me.
2 In my Father's house there are many mansions. If not, I would have told you: because I go to prepare a place for you.
3 And if I shall go, and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will take you to myself; that where I am, you also may be.
4 And whither I go you know, and the way you know.
Folks; do you realize that Mormonism's own data shows that very few Mormons will ever get to reside with the Father in Heaven?
Yeah! About 15% is the figure that has not been disputed.
HEAVEN-The Mormon church teaches there are three levels of heaven (three "degrees of glory"):
Oh??
More Mormon logic?
What church? It's scripture that has the truth not some earthly organization formed by man.
Yes, but you did accept her answer but gainsaid her simple reply, with what is, it seems to me, an uninspired series of questions.
Yes, but you did not accept her answer but gainsaid her simple reply, with what is, it seems to me, an uninspired series of questions.
RM, would you care to deal with this public question questioning the authority and integrity of the Religion Moderator. or should Jim Robinson be pinged in defense of the RM ? I don't mind pinging him when there isa public accusation of this nastier couched in a question.
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