Word on a par with Sacrament?

[DL82]

“The Sacred Scriptures contain the Word of God and, because they are inspired, they are truly the Word of God (DV 24)” CCC 135

If the Scriptures are “truly the Word of God”, how does that differ from the Blessed Sacrament, which is truly the Word made Flesh?

Should the Bible be treated in the same way as the Sacrament, as the literal presence of Jesus Christ our Lord?

As we are able not only to venerate but actually to worship the blessed Host as it truly is Christ our Lord and God, does the same hold true of the holy Bible?

If so, what does that mean for the way I treat my Bibles, e.g. my pocket Bible, which takes a bit of a battering at times on my travels.

 

[banjo]

“The Sacred Scriptures contain the Word of God and, because they are inspired, they are truly the Word of God (DV 24)” CCC 135

If the Scriptures are “truly the Word of God”, how does that differ from the Blessed Sacrament, which is truly the Word made Flesh?

Should the Bible be treated in the same way as the Sacrament, as the literal presence of Jesus Christ our Lord?

As we are able not only to venerate but actually to worship the blessed Host as it truly is Christ our Lord and God, does the same hold true of the holy Bible?

If so, what does that mean for the way I treat my Bibles, e.g. my pocket Bible, which takes a bit of a battering at times on my travels.

I believe this will provide an answer for you…

http://forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?p=2169344#post2169344

 

[DL82]

I believe this will provide an answer for you…

http://forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?p=2169344#post2169344

Thanks banjo. The question in this link is more about liturgical significance though.

I’m trying to get to the root of what the CCC means when it says the Scriptures are “truly the Word of God”.

Surely Word of God = God (John 1:1) = Jesus Christ (John 1:3)

So how does the presence of the Word of God in the Bible differ from His presence in the Eucharist?

 

[Brendan]

Christ is present in His Divinity throughout the entire Universe.

He makes this Divinity especially present in the Scripture and when “two or more are present” in His Name.

But the Eucharist is more. It is His Substantial presence.

Not just Divinity (which is present everywhere) but Body, Blood, Soul AND Divinity.

Christ is present in the Eucharist in the EXACT same way He is present on the throne in Heaven. His Divinity is an aspect of His Nature. His FULL and COMPLETE Nature is present in the Eucharist.

 

[davidv]

Thanks banjo. The question in this link is more about liturgical significance though.

I’m trying to get to the root of what the CCC means when it says the Scriptures are “truly the Word of God”.

Surely Word of God = God (John 1:1) = Jesus Christ (John 1:3)

So how does the presence of the Word of God in the Bible differ from His presence in the Eucharist?

It is a difference of form. I have heard a number of homilies that have explained that Jesus is present at Mass in four ways: 1) In the assembly of the congregation, 2) In the priest, 3) In the scriptures and 4) in the Eucharist.

 

[Evan]

The bible is a written form of some of the Word of God, He is not contained there. It can be transformed by a literate person to the Word of God in their mind. It is just marks on paper. To an illiterate person there is nothing there. The bible does not deserve the respect that the Euchrist calls for.

The Eucharist has the Real Presence of Christ. He is there even if I do not believe, or cannot read.

The bible is just a book. An not book contains anything until it can be read. It is not the bible that is important, it is the words. Words are formed in the mind of man. A bible on CD is no more the word of God than a printed bible. The CD needs a player to make the words present in the mind of one who can understand.

I know what I’m saying but I don’t know if I can communicate the vast difference between written information and the INFORMATION,

 

[dylanschrader]

From Mysterium Fidei:

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These various ways in which Christ is present fill the mind with astonishment and offer the Church a mystery for her contemplation. But there is another way in which Christ is present in His Church, a way that surpasses all the others. It is His presence in the Sacrament of the Eucharist, which is, for this reason, “a more consoling source of devotion, a lovelier object of contemplation and holier in what it contains” (39) than all the other sacraments; for it contains Christ Himself and it is “a kind of consummation of the spiritual life, and in a sense the goal of all the sacraments.” (40)

1. This presence is called “real” not to exclude the idea that the others are “real” too, but rather to indicate presence par excellence, because it is substantial and through it Christ becomes present whole and entire, God and man. (41) And so it would be wrong for anyone to try to explain this manner of presence by dreaming up a so-called “pneumatic” nature of the glorious body of Christ that would be present everywhere; or for anyone to limit it to symbolism, as if this most sacred Sacrament were to consist in nothing more than an efficacious sign “of the spiritual presence of Christ and of His intimate union with the faithful, the members of His Mystical Body.” (42)