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UNDERSTANDING INCULTURATION IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
What is inculturation? I much want to understand this topic.
ANSWER! / COMMENT!This is the best article on the topic. Inculturation – What it is and Isn’t - https://realclearcatholic.com/2018/07/29/inculturation-what-it-is-and-isnt/
However, if you want to...Read more
My Preliminary Thoughts on Pope Leo XIV by Jesse Romero
People are quick to make rash judgements, detract and calumniate (cf. CCC 2478, 2479) the new Pope, its only day one, let’s take a deep breath and give him a chance to step into the office and start governing. Just...Read more
CAN I BAPTIZE MY GRANDCHILDREN?
I was speaking to a priest about my grandchildren ages 13 and 11. My son and his ex wife were not married in the Church and they never had their kids baptized, despite my years of encouragement....Read more
Daily Reflections with
Archbishop Fulton Sheen
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A MEMORIAL OF HIS DEATH
Our Blessed Lord's last meal is more than a meal. It is a memorial of His death. He used bread and wine because these were the two substances which traditionally nourished man. In using bread and wine He was therefore using a symbol of ourselves. He now prepares the new passover. The old Passover was to celebrate the Jews leaving their bondage in Egypt and coming into the promised land. The new covenant, the new exodus, the new passover, is passing from sin to union with God through Christ. Our Lord then says, “I am going to give you a memorial of my death.” He then symbolized for them his death by the separate consecration of His bread and wine. He said first, “This is my Body.” Over the wine He said, “This is my Blood”, not “this symbolizes.” This is. That separate consecration of bread and wine was like the tearing apart of blood from body, which is the way He would die on the cross the next day. And then He said, “Do this in memory of Me.” Every time we assist at Mass we are watching the renewal of the death of Christ and incorporating our own death into His. That is the meaning of the Eucharist.