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I may not understand everything MORMON, but, by golly, I sure BELIEVE it!)
I may not understand everything MORMON, but, by golly, I sure BELIEVE it!)
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 don’t believe. You don’t believe that the Eucharist IS the Risen Christ.
You just don’t 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.
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I may not understand everything MORMON, but, by golly, I sure BELIEVE it!)
**Well, consider this: When Christ was crucified, where was the Church? For the most part, the “Church” — all of Jesus’ select men, His right-hand men —— had high-tailed it and headed for the tall grass. Everyone had betrayed, denied, or abandoned Jesus in His hour of need.
Th tiny remnant-— the faithful Church -— consisted of those at the foot of the Cross.**
NOT ONE, NOT MARY, NOT JOHN, NONE of them was SIDE BY SIDE with Jesus Christ as he was led from the garden, and into the interrogations from Annas, Caiaphas, Pilate, Herod, then Pilate again, and whipped and beaten, and mocked, and crowned with thorns, and given the cross to bear.
THEY...were...not...beside him......until his death was assured.
They weren’t heroic. They were just weak in the flesh, fulfilling the prophecy as well.
**The mothering relationship is reiterated very strongly in Revelation 12, when the Lady of the Sign, the Great Sign in the Heavens, is revealed to be none other than the Mother of the Savior (v.5) and the Mother of the Church (v.17):**
STILL skipping verse 6.
**The catholic idolatry of Mary seems to cloud every verse the catholic reads.**
Not only that, they see her clearly in grilled cheese sandwiches, salt stained viaduct supports, etc. If that ain’t programming I don’t know what is.
Pssssst this may have been a Catholic thread started by a Catholic, about Catholic teaching but it was posted as an OPEN thread inviting others to discuss whether or not that so-called "Catholic" teaching was really catholic (of the whole/universal). As has been shown, it wasn't. Y'all should stick to Caucus threads if you can't take the opposition.
Again, I stand by my comments regarding the unbiblical position of the rcc on Mary. As an example of Rome's false teachings.....
"Mary is the intermediary through whom is distributed unto us this immense treasure of mercies gathered by God, for mercy and truth were created by Jesus Christ. Thus as no man goeth to the Father but by the Son, so no man goeth to Christ but by His Mother." (OCTOBRI MENSE ENCYCLICAL OF POPE LEO XIII ON THE ROSARY http://w2.vatican.va/content/leo-Xiii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_22091891_octobri-mense.html)1.
Now...compare to Scripture.
1 Tim. 2:5, "For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus."
“Imitate her [Mary], holy mothers, who in her only dearly beloved Son set forth so great an example of maternal virtue; for neither have you sweeter children [than Jesus], nor did the Virgin seek the consolation of being able to bear another son” (Letters 63:111 [A.D. 388]).
If Ambrose were on this board the RM would caution him on reading minds.
Pssst I was being ironic and showing you the hypocrisy of your own comment.
Once again me being ironic.
**Zuriel’s analysis is a riot. First it was about lack of belief by Catholics in the literal six day creation**
I haven’t been involved in the creation debate for a year or so.
**then it was because the devil allows large churches and basilicas to be built, forgetting how the monumental Temple of Solomon was built to house the Ark of the Convent**
I didn’t forget, I just didn’t include it in a list of places of worship inspired by the devil.
Still no answers from you, though, on what lines you think the devil WON”T cross.
**Now Zuriel is onto another riddle. She wants to know whether the Eucharist “wears out”? Is this the level of serious inquiry or what?**
Your church claims it to be necessary for eternal life. Does one dose get the job done? 10? 100? 1,000?, 1,000,000?
If one doesn’t get the job done,....then....why...not?
You claim you are eating God, then why the need to repeat? How much eating of God is sufficient for eternal life?
How about REALLY answering for a change, instead of acting like a (biased) debate observer?
**Now Zuriel is onto another riddle. She wants**
Just how hard do you work at research? A simple look at my home page will tell you I’m a ‘he’. I have no clue about you.
LOL!
So, posting a complete passage of Scripture rather than a snippet to prove ones point is "twisting it to be unrecognizable"? Getta grip! Mrs. D, bless her soul, is quoting the typical RC appealing-to-Scripture propaganda that only works as long as nobody keeps on reading. When they do, it's plain to see the patchwork, kidnap ransom-letter style of quoting God's word is false.
I am praying that God comes into your mind and opens it to the truth and softens your heart as well.
CB's heart and mind HAVE been opened and softened to receive the truth from Almighty God. It's how he is able to continue to clarify the gospel in the midst of a perverted and accursed on.
>>I haven’t been involved in the creation debate for a year or so.<<
I think that was me you're discussing. According to the ccc catholics view the Genesis account as "symbolic"....not a literal creation.
If you don't get the beginning right, you're bound to get a lot of the rest wrong.
Is this the newest pejorative being used against fellow Christians who believe the Bible is the primary authority for the rule of the Christian faith or is it your own "witty" creation?
Sorry, if I said that stuff to my husband, he’d come over and check my forehead to see if I was running a fever...and I love him to pieces.
Well, you will need to forgive me, as I'm a goo-goo-eyed romantic only just married. It's only been 31 years and so I still get that woozy feeling when I think of my wife.
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