Posted on 05/25/2010 11:49:50 AM PDT by Pyro7480
Stating that “Catholics can become fanatical about one form of the Body of Christ in the bread of the Eucharist as the REAL presence of Christ,” Father Michael Kelly, the Jesuit CEO of the Asian Catholic news agency UCA News, criticized the doctrine of transubstantiation in a May 24 column.
In his column-- a critique of the new, more accurate liturgical translations that reflect the content and dignity of the original Latin-- Father Kelly writes:
Regrettably, all too frequently, the only Presence focused on is Christ’s presence in the elements of bread and wine. Inadequately described as the change of the “substance” (not the “accidents”) of bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ, the mystery of the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist carries the intellectual baggage of a physics no one accepts. Aristotelian physics makes such nice, however implausible and now unintelligible, distinctions. They are meaningless in the post-Newtonian world of quantum physics, which is the scientific context we live in today.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church, on the other hand, teaches:
The Council of Trent summarizes the Catholic faith by declaring: "Because Christ our Redeemer said that it was truly his body that he was offering under the species of bread, it has always been the conviction of the Church of God, and this holy Council now declares again, that by the consecration of the bread and wine there takes place a change of the whole substance of the bread into the substance of the body of Christ our Lord and of the whole substance of the wine into the substance of his blood. This change the holy Catholic Church has fittingly and properly called transubstantiation." (no. 1376)
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They used to excommunicate people for this, but too many in the hierarchy has been reluctant to exercise their legitimate power, save for the occasional excommunication of the women simulating ordination.
Another focus is important?
There is a shortage of beeswax.
It is pretty much the case that EVERY eucharistic miracle has occurred in situations where Faith in the true presence was lacking. And in every case it is heart muscle, from the region where the sinus node originates, blood type AB.
But for those of us who believe, it tastes like bread and wine. It was His desire that we be united in this way, who are we to disobey a direct order by the Saviour?
Having children in a Catholic school doesn’t mean what it used to. For the last 40 years there has been no guarantee that the Faith has been taught in any logical fashion.
In the case of the Eucharist, it is the blessing placed on the bread and wine that is ingested and becomes a part of your body through the miracle of FAITH. The words of blessing and thanksgiving are placed on the species and become a part of the faithful. It isn't just an “oh, remember when” moment. It is the blessing Christ pronounced over the bread and wine that became the bread of life. His words satisfied all hunger and longing for knowledge of God. It is the substance He chose to use as the sacred covenant between Himself and us (which, by the way, had He chosen liver and onions, I'd have choked it down). It is the visible touchstone with the Divine and made a part of us. It is totally dependent on being in complete charity with God the Father and the faith in the Lord Jesus, Christ.
We can bang on about whether it is or isn't necessary to think the substance of the bread and wine changes, but God's DNA is in everything and thereby (through one bread and one body and the cup of blessing which we bless) that He becomes united with our own DNA. Baptism of the Lord wasn't about cleansing Him of sin, it was about baptising the water which all flows into one sea and throughout the world. It waters the grain and the grapes and through our FAITH returns to us and we to our Maker.
That's what I think it is all about. Being one in the body of Christ through FAITH.
It took me well into adulthood to realize that authority can be abused as badly by corrupt, cowardly/slack under-exercise as by rigid, ham-handed over-exercise. But one would think a bishop, of all people, would know that.
Perhaps it is because the relevant bishops, whose job is such excommunication haven't the guts to do it.
I believe that noodle-spined, yellow-bellied bishops have been a problem in the East as well as the West.
Thank you both for your replies.
When you see Jesuit, Jesuit, Jesuit on the label, label, label.
You know there will be heresy, heresy, heresy on the table, table, table.
These goons are no longer cutting edge, they are boors.
I thought they were under the authority of their Superior General and not of the local Bishop.
Who have been excommunicated in the past 1900 or so years. As thngs are done today, the likes of Martin Luther and Cyril Lucaris would have continued in their errors unopposed and uncensured.
Who's to know? But do they still receive the Communion?
They can still go up and receive Communion,but every time they do so they commit another grave sin.
BS
why is a guy named Kelley heading an Asian news service?
They couldn’t find any Asians?
Often foreigners lack an ear for the cultures they live in (and I say that despite living in Asia).
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