Again? Trying to tell us (Catholics) what we believe and why we believe it?
Note the origin:
Midwestern Seminary ·
Sigh, it gets old.
The reason the Eucharist is performed repeatedly...
The Eucharist is not a repetition of an earlier event. It is as if we are at that original event. Christ's sacrifice transcends time and space.
Where is it wrong ??
Look, y'all have made it clear, over and over again, what you believe in, because you keep saying it over and over and over again.
And we keep throwing the life-line out to you over and over and over again, through compassion for the lost.
Y'all keep throwing back your faith in your "church," the traditions of ante-Nicene "patristcs," and reliance on the literalness of the Eucharist, and how to earn enough penance-karma for Peter to give you a pass from Purgatory to Heaven.
Back in 1888, the preacher, evangelist, and song-writer Edward Ufford challenged those who would broadcast the True Gospel to misled and Hell-bent religionists:
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Throw out the Life-Line across the dark wave,
There is a brother whom some one should save;
Somebody's brother! oh, who then will dare
To throw out the Life-Line, his peril to share?
Throw out the Life-Line!
Throw out the Life-Line!
Some-one is drifting away;
Throw out the Life-Line!
Throw out the Life-Line!
Some one is sinking today.
Throw out the Life-Line with hand quick and strong:
Why do you tarry. why linger so long?
See! he is sinking; oh, hasten today--
And out with the Life-Boat! away, then, away!
Throw out the Life-Line to danger-fraught men,
Sinking in anguish where you've never been:
Winds of temptation and billows of woe
Will soon hurl them out where the dark waters flow.
Soon will the season of rescue be o'er
Soon will they drift to eternity's shore,
Haste then, my brother, no time for delay,
But throw out the Life-Line and save them today.
Jesus is able! To you who are driv’n
Farther and farther from God and from Heav’n,
Helpless and hopeless, o’erwhelmed by the wave,
We throw out the lifeline—’tis, "Jesus can save."
This is the lifeline, oh, grasp it today!
See, you are recklessly drifting away;
Voices in warning, shout over the wave,
Oh, grasp the strong lifeline, for Jesus can save.
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Here's the Life-Line, as heralded by Peter, the spiritual failure in his own efforts no man to lead or save, when gotten right in his final grasp of his Master's simple doctrine:
"Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you."
After six denials of rejecting knowledge of, or fellowship with Jesus the Nazarene, Peter most certainly knew that only Jesus saves. And that is what we are trying to tell you; we, who now have utter confidence through personal experience in our places at the Remembrance Table, and in in our daily walk with the Lord, personally enjoying His voice teaching us from His Word, incomparably far above the voices of of men long dead who misunderstood the Macedonian jailer's call:
"Come Jesus, and save me, by your promise, both now and forever, from trying to earn my way into your favor!"
Or are you, like many of the vaunted patristics, too proud to respond so humbly and helpless?
With ISIS killing Christians, wouldn’t one think that Christians could stop attacking other Christians? This boggles the mind. What a waste.