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Category: Eucharist

  • Evangelii Gaudium – the BBC Has Overstated the Pope’s Liberal Leanings

    BBC News has the headline: “Pope Francis calls for power to move away from Vatican” and the opening line: “Pope Francis has called for power in the Catholic Church to be devolved away from the Vatican, in the first major work he has written in the role.” The document in question, Evangelii Gaudium (“Gospel’s Joy”)…

  • Paradigm Puzzle for Jason Stellman

    Jason Stellman has claimed that one of his attractions to the Roman religion was that allegedly the Biblical authors said things that someone with a Reformed paradigm would not say. Actually, he’s being anachronistic. There are certain things Reformed pastors wouldn’t say, because of heresies that have arisen since the time of the apostles (such…

  • Response to Roman Apologetic Comment …

    This comes from the comment box of Mark Shea’s post regarding Augustine, Scripture, and Nicaea. It’s not him commenting (as far as I know), but another member of his religion. Here’s the quotation: The Catholic (i.e. Universal) Church has Taught, and never wavered from [its] teaching on the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist…

  • Pseudo-Greek Propaganda Regarding the Eucharist

    I ran across this gem in the Called to Communion comment box (from Nathan B.): The Greek in “Do this in remembrance of me” is anamnesis. It does not mean to “intellectually recall a memory”. It means to “again make present a past event or action or state which those now present enter into”, to…

  • If You Look Only at the Similarities, They’re Exactly the Same!

    One area where Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox part ways is over describing what goes on in the consecration of the elements in the Eucharist. For Eastern Orthodox, the transformation that occurs is mysterious and indescribable. For Roman Catholics, the transformation is sacramental and describable – in fact it is described quite specifically by the…

  • Thanksgiving Verses – Part 1

    In the New Testament, our peace offering is Christ. We no longer offer burnt offerings, but instead we remember the offering of Christ in the Eucharist, which means “Thanksgiving,” which we usually call the “Lord’s Supper” or “Communion” in the Reformed churches. In the Old Testament, however, there was an option to offering a peace…

  • John XXIII on the Sacraments, the Mass, and the Priesthood

    The following are a pair of consecutive items (quoted in full) from the papal encyclical Ad Petri Cathedram, by pope John XXIII, on 29 June 1959. J23 writes: 74. As for unity of worship, the Catholic Church has had seven sacraments, neither more nor less, from her beginning right down to the present day. Jesus…

  • Augustine – Metaphor – Bodily Presence

    In this clip, we respond to Mr. William Albrecht’s continued (but unsupported) insistence that apparently terms like “the bread becomes the body of Christ” or “the bread is the body of Christ” must be understood neither literally (as actual flesh with skin, veins, DNA, etc.) nor analogically but transubstantially. We note that Mr. Albrecht doesn’t…

  • The Weakest Argument Against the Spiritual Presence

    I recently received the pleasure of a comment from someone who has been following this blog for a long time, a reader who uses the handle “Orthodox” (“O” for short). O doesn’t necessarily represent Eastern Orthodoxy, but he does provide comments against the Reformed position. O writes: “In too many places to list, Augustine says…

  • Augustine vs. Albrecht on the Bodily Presence – Round 2

    This is video response to William Albrecht’s two videos ( video 1 and video 2 ) responding to previous videos of mine, responding to a still previous video of his. I continue to point out Mr. Albrecht’s errors. I have 11 points: 1) The issue is bodily presence vs. spiritual presence (not real presence vs.…