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KathleenGee
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I am getting back into work mode.
About the Mass, it is the form of worship the earliest Christians have followed, the Breaking of the Bread.
On the Road to Emmaus, a man appears to walk alongside some of the apostles and explains to them everything about Scripture and how their hearts were burning within them as they heard his words.
Then he came with them to eat. He said in this encounter to the apostles, 'You still don’t understand?" They spent 3.5 years with Him. They saw His words answered in actions in His ministry and responses.
When this man then broke bread, they then understood in their spirit the Lord’s teachings, realized it was Him, and He disappeared.
We need the Eucharist, the living Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity, the Lord’s actual presence within us to fully understand His Living Word to enter into communion with the Holy Trinity.
For people to objectively understand our worship, so greatly different than Bible and text oriented services, you must go back to ancient historical documents of worship.
A good and clear read is that of St. Justin the Martyr who described what happened at Mass in ancient Rome to the Roman Emperor around 154 AD. He described the Mass in how it was basically practiced throughout the ancient Christian world.
The parts of the Mass, the spirit and tone, the intent are the same now as they were then 2000 years ago. Text reflections of Scripture cannot replace the Mass. Jesus said we are to eat of His Body and Blood.
Recall those many followers of Jesus who left Him prior to the Last Supper when He said we will eat and drink of Him to have eternal life.
You go to Mass, you enter, you make the sign of the cross with holy water, a sacramental of Jesus Christ, to renew our baptism, to purify ourselves in grace to enter His sacred place, a dwelling most beautiful to hold the tabernacle and altar of Our Lord. Mass begins and we are no longer in this world but in God’s sacred presence, we enter into the eternal being in union with Him, and the wounded but triumphant Lord before the Heavenly Father nourishes through the Holy Spirit to transform ordinary bread and wine, the work of our hands, into the Divine Food, the counterpoint to the forbidden fruit Adam and Eve ate, to the Fruit born by the Tree of Life, the Church, He the Vine and we the branches at the sacred banquet table of the Mass.
The Mass is the link between earth and heaven.
The Mass is what the Daily Sacrifice is, where every hour of the day around the world, His Blood is poured out for us to consume and to live out, Our Lord’s Eucharist preceeded by the Word of both Old and New Testament, the Mass the atonement for sin committed around the world.
The Mass is the greatest power against evil.
Many are indoctrinated to think we worship Mary but likewise are blocked from false teachers to learn what the Mass is and does.
Shane Shaetzel has a blog, ‘Catholic in the Ozark’. He is a former evangelical. He now is a most devout Catholic and answers all the spins out there. I really think now the spins are the work of the evil one from preventing a Christian to fully participate in the divine life and the abundant graces in the Church.
People can point out Scripture but they are taken out of context simply because such cherry picking is done outside Christ’s instituted and visible Church. Without the Church, one cannot follow Scripture to the fullness God intended and only leads to dissension, protest and fragmentation among the Mystical Body of Christ.
Trinitarian Baptism is a Catholic rite. People who receive it are essentially baptized into the Catholic Church. If they go elsewhere for Church we still see them as separated brethren and we do not indoctrinate our people to protest the Protestants.
Ironically, I take a gentleman to a Lutheran service on Sundays and he wanted me to commune with him. The Lutherans believe Jesus is there among the bread and wine but they are not Christ’s Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity. I received in their intent. But I really did not want to be up there. It is a small church.
Then I read that only Lutherans are to receive and if one is not and is at the altar, to cross hands over their chest like what is requested of non-catholics. So I did that. I crossed my hands and after receiving before, they noticed this time I did not participate.
I began to feel like I was protesting being up there for everyone to see but refuse their communion. I told the pastor I did not like looking like I was dissenting…I now sit in the pew and the client goes up alone. We sit in the back now as well so people don’t see me sitting there alone. May be it is my Catholic upbringing but I don’t like to protest in sacred places, and I do experience Christ’s spirit and love there among the Lutherans, God bless them.
About the Mass, it is the form of worship the earliest Christians have followed, the Breaking of the Bread.
On the Road to Emmaus, a man appears to walk alongside some of the apostles and explains to them everything about Scripture and how their hearts were burning within them as they heard his words.
Then he came with them to eat. He said in this encounter to the apostles, 'You still don’t understand?" They spent 3.5 years with Him. They saw His words answered in actions in His ministry and responses.
When this man then broke bread, they then understood in their spirit the Lord’s teachings, realized it was Him, and He disappeared.
We need the Eucharist, the living Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity, the Lord’s actual presence within us to fully understand His Living Word to enter into communion with the Holy Trinity.
For people to objectively understand our worship, so greatly different than Bible and text oriented services, you must go back to ancient historical documents of worship.
A good and clear read is that of St. Justin the Martyr who described what happened at Mass in ancient Rome to the Roman Emperor around 154 AD. He described the Mass in how it was basically practiced throughout the ancient Christian world.
The parts of the Mass, the spirit and tone, the intent are the same now as they were then 2000 years ago. Text reflections of Scripture cannot replace the Mass. Jesus said we are to eat of His Body and Blood.
Recall those many followers of Jesus who left Him prior to the Last Supper when He said we will eat and drink of Him to have eternal life.
You go to Mass, you enter, you make the sign of the cross with holy water, a sacramental of Jesus Christ, to renew our baptism, to purify ourselves in grace to enter His sacred place, a dwelling most beautiful to hold the tabernacle and altar of Our Lord. Mass begins and we are no longer in this world but in God’s sacred presence, we enter into the eternal being in union with Him, and the wounded but triumphant Lord before the Heavenly Father nourishes through the Holy Spirit to transform ordinary bread and wine, the work of our hands, into the Divine Food, the counterpoint to the forbidden fruit Adam and Eve ate, to the Fruit born by the Tree of Life, the Church, He the Vine and we the branches at the sacred banquet table of the Mass.
The Mass is the link between earth and heaven.
The Mass is what the Daily Sacrifice is, where every hour of the day around the world, His Blood is poured out for us to consume and to live out, Our Lord’s Eucharist preceeded by the Word of both Old and New Testament, the Mass the atonement for sin committed around the world.
The Mass is the greatest power against evil.
Many are indoctrinated to think we worship Mary but likewise are blocked from false teachers to learn what the Mass is and does.
Shane Shaetzel has a blog, ‘Catholic in the Ozark’. He is a former evangelical. He now is a most devout Catholic and answers all the spins out there. I really think now the spins are the work of the evil one from preventing a Christian to fully participate in the divine life and the abundant graces in the Church.
People can point out Scripture but they are taken out of context simply because such cherry picking is done outside Christ’s instituted and visible Church. Without the Church, one cannot follow Scripture to the fullness God intended and only leads to dissension, protest and fragmentation among the Mystical Body of Christ.
Trinitarian Baptism is a Catholic rite. People who receive it are essentially baptized into the Catholic Church. If they go elsewhere for Church we still see them as separated brethren and we do not indoctrinate our people to protest the Protestants.
Ironically, I take a gentleman to a Lutheran service on Sundays and he wanted me to commune with him. The Lutherans believe Jesus is there among the bread and wine but they are not Christ’s Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity. I received in their intent. But I really did not want to be up there. It is a small church.
Then I read that only Lutherans are to receive and if one is not and is at the altar, to cross hands over their chest like what is requested of non-catholics. So I did that. I crossed my hands and after receiving before, they noticed this time I did not participate.
I began to feel like I was protesting being up there for everyone to see but refuse their communion. I told the pastor I did not like looking like I was dissenting…I now sit in the pew and the client goes up alone. We sit in the back now as well so people don’t see me sitting there alone. May be it is my Catholic upbringing but I don’t like to protest in sacred places, and I do experience Christ’s spirit and love there among the Lutherans, God bless them.
