The Faith theology of what happens in the change of
bread and wine at Mass into Christ's own Body and Blood involves a quite different philosophical framework from that of St Thomas Aquinas: Faith draws on a modern view of the co-relativity of all matter; Aquinas depends more on an Aristotelian system of form and matter.
Though not seen face to face, this God is yet encountered with a striking immediacy in the larvae Dei — the created marvels of God's hand,
the bread and wine at mass, even the mystery of one's own self as created being.
They honestly believe they consume the actual flesh and blood of Jesus because a priest performs some hocus - pocus over grocery store
bread and wine at one point during the service.
In Catholic theology a valid sacrament requires the right matter, for example
bread and wine at the Eucharist, and the right intention.
There are perhaps parallels with the devotion shown by some Christians to the consecrated
bread and wine at the Mass..
At Ettal, Bonhoeffer could go to Mass and share in the prayers and readings, but, as he was not a member of the Catholic Church, he could not partake of
the bread and wine at communion.
Pope Francis says that divorced and remarried people are «not excommunicated» and should not feel «discriminated against» — he stops short of directly saying they are welcome to take
the bread and wine at Eucharist, but then adds in a footnote: «I would also point out that the Eucharist «is not a prize for the perfect, but a powerful medicine and nourishment for the weak.
Not exact matches
For example, last year for Lent I gave up
bread and wine so the only time I had these things was
at communion.
In the final frame the menorah becomes a smoldering cross,
and in a nearby cave (an empty tomb),
bread and wine are set
at a table with the words «Do this in remembrance of me.»
She sees the elements served
at all tables to be moldy
bread and poisoned
wine.
Yet Jesus
at the last supper; when he instituted this sacrament, did not refuse Judas the
bread and the
wine, despite the fact that he knew Judas was his betrayer.
Again,
at the beginning, we have that mysterious figure Melchizedek, King of Salem, «priest of God Most High», with his offerings of
bread and wine.
As for the Lord's Supper, it began so simply that
at first every meal where disciples ate together was a sacred communion,
and their ordinary
bread and wine were memorials of their Lord's sacrifice.
Instead of the twelve cakes, there are twelve disciples, there is the
bread and wine,
and the new
and everlasting covenant offered by Jesus our Priest,
and eaten not
at the golden table, but
at Jesus» Table in the Kingdom of His Father (Luke 22:30).
When I talk to my good friend who is a very conservative Catholic who views taking communion as sacred
and every crumb is representative of Christ's body
and not one crumb will drop... then compare it to how we do it
at church... everyone ripping
bread from the same loaf, crumbs everywhere, kids spilling the «
wine»... does it really matter... is one more right than the other... one upholds church law on how communion will be performed versus our laid back version.
Normally in reading that passage Christians focus either on the elements of
bread and wine or on the presiding minister
at the Eucharist.
You likely deny evolution
and global warming for no other reason than it makes you uncomfortable
and hold science to the impossibly high standard of having to explain every conceivable mystery about the natural World before you will accept it, but some moron
at a pulpit doing magic hand signals of a Sundaymorning is enough to convince you he is communicating with some sky - god
and turning grocery store
bread and wine into flesh
and blood.
Yet,
at this same meal, Jesus took
bread and wine and distributed them to his errant, defecting disciples.
You all fight for first place
at a table that eats
bread and wine, but it doesn't give you carte blanche to pass judgement on others.
This could become a burning issue today if the «strong» were to maintain that all kinds of food
and drink may be eaten
and drunk
at the Lord's Supper while the «weak» declared that only a little consecrated
bread and wine may be taken.
Here's a list of things we should test... 1) Worldwide floods 2) Seas parting
at the command of a person 3) talking snakes, donkeys,
and bushes 4) People spontaneously turning into pillars of salt 5) a few loaves of
bread and some
wine feeding thousands 6) instantaneous healing of disease 7) worlds forming in 6 days 8) words forming on stone tablets without the assistance of a living creature 9) people walking on water 10) resurrection on command
When I was
at uni, our Friday night contemplative prayer group would have a meal together before the praying
and we'd have the
bread and wine (or grape juice) as part of the meal.
11:24 - 25), or only that they continued Jesus» practice of a fellowship - meal with his disciples, is much disputed, but the testimony of Paul (I Cor.11: 23) taken in conjunction with the firm tradition that Jesus had given to
bread and wine a new significance
at the Last Supper, support the view that from the very earliest days Christians repeated the substance of that rite.
I feel a need to rub elbows with fellow Christians, kneel
at a communion rail, taste the
bread and wine.
Advent bears good tidings that this is the One who comes as body
and blood,
bread and wine, to hungry mouths
at the Eucharist feast,
and who comes back to us through compassionate acts of filling the hungry with good things.
I don't need a seat
at their table — in Christ, really, there is only one table, laid out with the
bread and the
wine, there is room for me there.
In some churches, some of the
bread and wine is «reserved» or kept after a Communion service
and taken
at a later time to those who are ill.
And that reality is indelibly associated with the bread and wine which are used according to Christ's own action at the Last Supper, so that in receiving them we may say, as the Church has always said, that we receive «the spiritual food of the body and blood of Christ,» and that we receive this «to our great and endless comfort,» or strengtheni
And that reality is indelibly associated with the
bread and wine which are used according to Christ's own action at the Last Supper, so that in receiving them we may say, as the Church has always said, that we receive «the spiritual food of the body and blood of Christ,» and that we receive this «to our great and endless comfort,» or strengtheni
and wine which are used according to Christ's own action
at the Last Supper, so that in receiving them we may say, as the Church has always said, that we receive «the spiritual food of the body
and blood of Christ,» and that we receive this «to our great and endless comfort,» or strengtheni
and blood of Christ,»
and that we receive this «to our great and endless comfort,» or strengtheni
and that we receive this «to our great
and endless comfort,» or strengtheni
and endless comfort,» or strengthening.
We see the same thing
at the Last Supper, as Jesus gives the
bread and wine to all who are there — even to Peter, who Jesus said would deny him,
and to Judas, who would betray him.
Jesus in the
bread and wine — shared
at the table among sinners.
Presiding
at the altar of Immaculate Conception on Fourteenth St.
and First Ave., with hundreds
and hundreds of ordinary Americans, I am consistently impressed by the intensity of the response to the particularity of Bible story, of
bread and wine, of body
and blood, of confession
and absolution, of lively interaction with Mary
and all the saints,
and, yes, of miracles»
and all this concentrated as concentrated can be on Jesus Christ incarnate, present, helping, judging, forgiving,
and coming again.
Some manuscripts state only that
at the Last Supper, Jesus took a cup, blessed it,
and passed it to his disciples with an oath not to drink
wine again until the coming of the kingdom; then he took
bread, blessed it,
and gave it to them, saying, «This is my body.»
And so Old Adam still will have his day As celebrant at feasts some people keep For flesh and blood that never wake from sleep, This bread and wine of human show and pl
And so Old Adam still will have his day As celebrant
at feasts some people keep For flesh
and blood that never wake from sleep, This bread and wine of human show and pl
and blood that never wake from sleep, This
bread and wine of human show and pl
and wine of human show
and pl
and play.
He recalled how his fellow priests had in many cases become very casual,
and how in Rome «I heard, among other clever
and coarse anecdotes
at mealtimes, members of the papal curia laugh
and boast about how some said Mass
and with reference to the
bread and wine spoke these words: ««Panis es, panis manebis; vinum es, vinum manebis» — «
Bread you are
and bread you shall remain;
wine you are,
and wine you shall remain» —
and with these words they elevated the host
and the
wine in the usual way.
At the moment when the words of consecration were correctly completed, the substances of
bread and wine were «transubstantiated» into the body
and blood of Jesus.
A narrative of a Lenten meditation in poetic form written from the standpoint of the apostle Thomas:
And if it were not for his love, his grace that sought me out behind locked doors, called me to touch and then believe, I would not be here at your humble table ready now with you, to break the bread and pour the wine as he did years a
And if it were not for his love, his grace that sought me out behind locked doors, called me to touch
and then believe, I would not be here at your humble table ready now with you, to break the bread and pour the wine as he did years a
and then believe, I would not be here
at your humble table ready now with you, to break the
bread and pour the wine as he did years a
and pour the
wine as he did years ago.
At the Last Supper, Jesus served the disciples the
bread and wine which they themselves had prepared for the meal.
Sometimes we hear people referring to receiving the «
bread and wine»
at Mass..
Now the change
at Mass of
bread and wine into the Body
and Blood of Christ occurs immediately
at the words of consecration
and remains as long as the appearances of
bread and wine remain.
And if it were not for his love, his grace that sought me out behind locked doors, called me to touch and then believe, I would not be here at your humble table ready now with you, to break the bread and pour the wine as he did years a
And if it were not for his love, his grace that sought me out behind locked doors, called me to touch
and then believe, I would not be here at your humble table ready now with you, to break the bread and pour the wine as he did years a
and then believe, I would not be here
at your humble table ready now with you, to break the
bread and pour the wine as he did years a
and pour the
wine as he did years ago.
It seemed to me as if, in all he did that evening
at the table, he too was finding meaning
and enlightenment, as if, in breaking
bread and pouring
wine, our Lord himself was being led — as we were through him — into a new
and richer comprehension, into a full
and final revelation that this, of course, was why it must be so — that only as a grain of wheat falls to the ground
and dies can it arise again
and bring forth ripe new grain to form the loaf that feeds a hungry world.
At one point they actually believe that grocery store
bread and wine changes into the flesh
and blood of Jesus because their priest performs some special ceremony over it.
It occurred
at the beginning of the «Canon» of the Mass, the long central prayer which recalls the «Last Supper»
and includes the consecration of the
bread and the
wine.
Within a few months the hardships were beginning to bite as the winter came on
and there was heating nowhere except in one room where the brethren could go to warm up if the cold became too intense;
and with Advent
at the beginning of December the meals fell to one a day with only some dry
bread and wine in the evening.
If you took a step back
and looked
at what y» all do in an objective way, i.e. followed some book word for word written by over 100 people over a 900 year period, gather weekly in a building
and sing songs together
and eat
bread and drink
wine as if it were anything but what it is, list goes on.
So I suppose that on Ascension Day, I best quit standing here staring
at the bottoms of your feet, Jesus,
and instead get to work — feeding, fellowshipping, healing, teaching, loving, hosting, sharing, breaking
bread and pouring
wine.
Whether they fed on him by faith in their hearts with thanksgiving by eating the
bread and drinking the
wine with «him
at meal, or whether they gratefully permitted him to wash
and dry their feet before the meal in anticipation of being cleansed by his blood on the cross, the meaning of both symbols was the same: We are saved from sin
and transformed into new creatures in Christ Jesus only as we freely
and gladly receive from him the benefits of his passion
and death on the cross for our redemption.
So
at the Altar
at Mass (Holy Communion) Jesus took
bread and wine,
and said «This is my Body — this is my Blood»
and we can not change to a hamburger
and coke because that is the most popular food today.
Christ has offered his very real body
and blood so that
at the last supper he can set a new pattern
and say of
bread «this is my body»
and of
wine «this is my blood.»
Some lesser lights may illustrate concrete applications even better — Father Huntington who
at some moments seemed almost to make the Single Tax an article of the Creed, Father William, friar of the Society of the Divine Compassion, leading a demonstration of the unemployed of Plaistow in 1900, Basil Jellicoe describing his housing projects
and recreational activities in Somers Town as an extension of his priestly work of consecrating
bread and wine.