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THE EUCHARIST, THE MASS and SCRIPTURE ~ ~ ~ Part IV
THE LORDS’ SUPPER ~ ~ ~ What is it?
Who knew when we started that this would turn into a month long ordeal!
I’d like to take this opportunity to thank all of you.
First, for contributing, conversing, contradicting, cross examining, confronting, contesting and challenging me, and each other. I’ve enjoyed every minute of it.
Second, for putting up with my condescension, crankiness, cantankerous comments, criticism and all around contentiousness.
I hope you are all having as much fun as I am. I also hope you know that I know that this is not a game. It’s serious stuff.
I’d like to post a prayer, to help us continue on our journey. A prayer that all of us can agree is irrefutable, scriptural and acceptable. Because of course, it is the words that Jesus gave us…
THE EUCHARIST, THE MASS AND SCRIPTURE PART III
BRINGING IT HOME…THE FOURTH CUP
Tell the whole community of Israel: On the tenth of this month every one of your families must procure for itself a lamb, one apiece for each household.
If a family is too small for a whole lamb, it shall join the nearest household in procuring one and shall share in the lamb in proportion to the number of persons who partake of it.
The lamb must be a year-old male and without blemish. You may take it from either the sheep or the goats.
They shall take some of its blood and apply it to the two doorposts and the lintel of every house in which they partake of the lamb.
That same night they shall eat its roasted flesh with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
None of it must be kept beyond the next morning; whatever is left over in the morning shall be burned up.
For on this same night I will go through Egypt, striking down every first–born of the land, both man and beast, and executing judgment on all the gods of Egypt-I, the LORD!
“This day shall be a memorial feast for you, which all your generations shall celebrate with pilgrimage to the LORD, as a perpetual institution.
“This day shall be a memorial feast for you, which all your generations shall celebrate with pilgrimage to the LORD, as a perpetual institution.
- For seven days you must eat unleavened bread. From the very first day you shall have your houses clear of all leaven. Whoever eats leavened bread from the first day to the seventh shall be cut off from Israel.
Then take a bunch of hyssop, and dipping it in the blood that is in the basin, sprinkle the lintel and the two doorposts with this blood. But none of you shall go outdoors until morning. Exodus 12
http://www.ses.edu/Portals/0/journal/articles/1.1Keay.pdf
Before going to the Seder Meal in the upper room, a significant event takes place about a week prior.
The Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread were to take place in two days’ time. So the chief priests and the scribes were seeking a way to arrest him by treachery and put him to death. They said, “Not during the festival, for fear that there may be a riot among the people.” Mark 14:1-2
- This would have been the same time that the Jews were all bringing their own lambs into Jerusalem, preparing themselves for the sacrifice. It is estimated by Josephus, that in 70 AD, more than a quarter of a million lambs were sacrificed on the Temple altar.
The Seder Meal, re-presenting the first meal eaten at Passover, consisted of 15 parts. Within these 15 parts, there are four main subheadings. These are known as the four cups. The table is set, the family assembles. Various foods (bitter herbs, unleavened bread, wine) are placed on the table. In a question and answer format, the story of Passover is recounted. (And you shall tell it to your son on that day, saying, ‘Because of this God did for us when He took me out of Egypt.’”) The Oldest member, often wearing a special garment called the kittel, asks a series of questions and the youngest, able, member of the family answers them.
Also on the table are four cups, for wine. (In modern Seders there is often a fifth cup, set out for Elijah…it is believed that Elijah will come immediately before the Messiah. The fourth cup represent the acts of redemption that God implemented for the Jews throughout history. The fourth act of redemption, the Messiah, has not yet been accomplished and therefore the fifth cup of wine is symbolic and not to be drunk. It is there in hopes that Elijah will come, foreshadowing the Messiah)
THE FOUR CUPS:
Each cup of wine represents a redemptive act performed by God throughout the Jews history.
The cups represent choosing of Abraham, the Exodus from Egypt, the survival of the Jewish people throughout the exile, and the fourth which will happen at the end of days.
THIS IS THE MEAL THAT JESUS AND HIS DISCIPLES WERE SHARING ON THE NIGHT HE WAS BETRAYED.
TODAY’S READINGS ~ ~ ~ AUGUST 29th, 2010
Reading 1
My child, conduct your affairs with humility,
and you will be loved more than a giver of gifts.
Humble yourself the more, the greater you are,
and you will find favor with God.
What is too sublime for you, seek not,
into things beyond your strength search not.
The mind of a sage appreciates proverbs,
and an attentive ear is the joy of the wise.
Water quenches a flaming fire,
and alms atone for sins.
Reading 2
HAPPY 100TH BIRTHDAY AGNES GONXHA BOJAXHI ! ! !
"The other day I dreamed that I was at the gates of heaven. And St. Peter said, ‘Go back to Earth, there are no slums up here.’ "
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much.
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
THE EUCHARIST, THE MASS AND SCRIPTURE…PART II
I just hate waiting for that page to reload… 
First I want to revisit the scripture from that last post. This time I’d like to add that last line. We all pretty much agreed that the scripture was speaking of the promise of the future savior…Jesus. The fugitives were either the apostles or believers or both, and they spread the “Word” throughout all of the nations, Glorifying God by proclaiming His Son. Clean vessels could either mean the baptized, or simply, the believers.
Isaiah 66:18-21
Oh You Beautiful Doll…
I GOT NOTHIN’ TO SAY…
THE EUCHARIST, THE MASS AND SCRIPTURE
So, we’ve discussed Faith. I think it might help to summarize. If I get anything wrong, let me know.
We seem to have a few different uses for the word Faith.
The Catholic Church teaches that it is a Theological Virtue. The Catechism defines it this way…
Faith is a grace
153 When St. Peter confessed that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God, Jesus declared to him that this revelation did not come “from flesh and blood”, but from “my Father who is in heaven”.24 Faith is a gift of God, a supernatural virtue infused by him. “Before this faith can be exercised, man must have the grace of God to move and assist him; he must have the interior helps of the Holy Spirit, who moves the heart and converts it to God, who opens the eyes of the mind and ‘makes it easy for all to accept and believe the truth.’”25
SUNDAY’S READINGS ~ ~ ~ August 22nd, 2010
Reading 1
Thus says the LORD:
I know their works and their thoughts,
and I come to gather nations of every language;
they shall come and see my glory.
I will set a sign among them;
from them I will send fugitives to the nations:
to Tarshish, Put and Lud, Mosoch, Tubal and Javan,
to the distant coastlands
that have never heard of my fame, or seen my glory;
and they shall proclaim my glory among the nations.
They shall bring all your brothers and sisters from all the nations
as an offering to the LORD,
on horses and in chariots, in carts, upon mules and dromedaries,
to Jerusalem, my holy mountain, says the LORD,
just as the Israelites bring their offering
to the house of the LORD in clean vessels.
Some of these I will take as priests and Levites, says the LORD.
What is Faith? The Continuation of A Conversation from the Catholic Register
HEY ALL!
September is almost here and I’ll soon be back in full swing! Lots has happened over the summer and I’ll be sharing with you in the days ahead. I took a break over the summer, but will be back full time in September. Can’t wait. Val and I have talked and we’re going to change some things. For one thing, I’ll be opining more and “reporting” less. I want to get some REALLY deep conversations going and stay away from simply political debates. I’ll be doing more posts like the apparition/saints/TOB and book club posts. Hope that’s okay with all of you. I am also going back to school (only one class) and will be bringing what I learn to the blog. NO, I’m not taking math. I’m taking PHILOSOPHY. Hopefully, the class will inspire me to post some thought provoking conversation here. I’ve missed you all!
Sunday’s Readings ~ ~ ~ July 25th, 2010
Reading 1
In those days, the LORD said: "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great,
and their sin so grave,
that I must go down and see whether or not their actions
fully correspond to the cry against them that comes to me.
I mean to find out."
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