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.
Well, you know what they say, "smell ain't everything".
However, it just may help keep one safe from the cannibals.
Did you hear the one about the cannibal who passed his brother on the trail? 'oe-kAy, that's the end of that one...
This is true; but I want to hope for the best.
So far, verga. So far...
Remember the vineyard parable.
I know this does not sound Christian, But I God has made a very special place to punish these sickos, beyond the normal Hell.
You'll have to ask yourself:
How much time do I spend talking to a dead person?
Mary is NOT referenced in Genesis 3:15. The "she" that is being referenced in every instance is Eve and her offspring. Trying to inject Mary into those verses is simply a Catholic construct in an attempt to bolster a false teaching. The "big picture" show Catholicism to be a false religion and another gospel.
Interesting.
Here's to hoping she'll have a Helen Keller sort of breakthrough, illuminating intervention experience (that will cause a figuratively blind & deaf person to be able to inwardly, both see & hear) which changes everything that can be changed (toward the positive, that is...).
One cannot undo the past, yet the Lord can smooth out some of the after-effects of the damages suffered, instead of just a papering over those things as we are often left to do ourselves, when all we've got is ourselves --- no one being able to reach us.
Hmmm.
And now it seems as if you've left out "hope".
Yet uh, I sort-a tend to think that the uh, 'normal' hell would suffice...
I did say "spiritual" mother, and you might say "What's the difference?" But there is a difference, a big one.
I googled "Spirit Mother" and, as I suspected, the top hits by far were all about goddesses, shamans, embodied forces of nature, dream-totems, Shakti, Mormonism, pre-existence of souls, reincarnation, sexual consorts of gods, etc. This is repellent to me, and does not at all convey the Christian meaning.
If I could take a little bottle-brush and some pine-sol, I would want to scrub those images clean out of your mind and mine as well.
So what does "spiritual mother" mean? I'd start off by saying, "Read Revelation 12." I did learn something here, which is: don't assume that people will automatically understand what you say in the context of Jesus Christ Our Lord.
Selling indulgences, eating meat on Friday, and the list goes on.
Catholics, all Catholics. By very fact that she is given the title "queen of heaven".
Somehow, I knew you missed it!
Doesn't that become clearer when you read in Revelation 12 that the Serpent is still at war with the Woman and the son she bore? And isn't the Woman identified as the mother of the Messiah?
Isn't she portrayed as the mother of many other offspring, namely "those who keep God’s commandments and bear witness to Jesus"?
This is one of the grandest examples of the epic coherence and continuity of Sacred Scripture from beginning to end. The continuity of Scripture from Genesis to Revelation strikes me as astonishing, an aspect of the Genius of God, miraculous.
17 year old mother so stoned she did not hear the screams of her 2 year old daughter as the doberman bit the toes off the child.
7 year old boy whose mother thought a good form of punishment was taking the hot curling iron to his mouth. Parents that had 7 year old selling drugs, because if he got caught it was Juvie, for them it was Attica or Sing Sing. (This young man ended up in Juvie after he attempted to kill some older dealers by blowing up their car when they beat him up trying to take his territory.)
Yeah I am jaded but I really have a thing against people that harm innocent children or dumb animals for no good reason. And I have seen too much of both over the years.
Matthew 1:1 The book (biblos) of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
Philippians 4:3 And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book (biblos) of life.
Greek - biblos - a written book
"early 14c., from Anglo-Latin biblia, Old French bible (13c.) "the Bible," also any large book generally, from Medieval and Late Latin biblia (neuter plural interpreted as feminine singular), in phrase biblia sacra "holy books," a translation of Greek ta biblia to hagia "the holy books," from Greek biblion "paper, scroll," the ordinary word for "book," originally a diminutive of byblos "Egyptian papyrus," possibly so called from Byblos (modern Jebeil, Lebanon), the name of the Phoenician port [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Bible]
The Holy Spirit used the word throughout scripture. You didn't show anything other than a possibility. I'll go with the Holy Spirit. K?
I won’t succumb to the entrapment of your word games.
The woman is identified as Zion NOT Mary.
We humans like to RANK sins: some more heinous than others.
Jesus said if you break the LEAST of them...
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