What should the Eucharist Congress in Liverpool be Discussing?.
When the representatives in the Eucharist congress meet in Liverpool should they actually discuss the Blessed Sacrament?
A little history should vitalise this question. In the early Church at the Breaking of Bread it was soon realised that the hard saying of Jesus about eating my Flesh and drinking my Blood had been fulfilled when he ordered at the Last Supper for his followers to do this in memory of Him
SO HOW DO WE PREPARE OURSELVES BEFORE COMMUNION TO BE WORTHY OF RECEIVING JESUS? Perhaps you feel it does not matter. Just turn up and take the Body of Christ forget all the nonsense about confessing sins, and being worthy, it is Pre-Vatican II nonsense, We are now liberated.
Parts of the Sacred Species are not consumed and in the early Church hermits started keeping the consecrated Bread in their caves for adoration. Later monks kept the sacred species on their person, but when monasteries were built they kept them in safe places. Eventually as St John says "He dwelt amongst us" {literally , pitched his tent amongst us} and the present Tabernacle was formed, the Church has never officially approved of safes, and boxes, and any other replacements for the Tabernacle, such things were approved by the unilateral decision of local bishops and priests actually preventing the community from talking to Jesus. Is this action not that of the Anti-christ?.
SO SHOULD WE ADORE JESUS IN THE BLESSED SACRAMENT WITHIN THE TABERNACLE.? The Church agains tells us that the Sacred Species is worthy of the Adoration due to God. Jesus Christ is not in Bread as he is in Scripture or amongst a group where he is present as God, but in the Tabernacle he is present as God Made Man. He is still with us in his humanity sharing our joys, our sorrows, feeling as we do, capable of not just Divine love but Human love. A friend who will wipe our tears. In the Credo of the People of God Paul VI stated "in order to be approved for Catholic belief any definition of the Real Presence must conform to the teaching that at the words of Consecration Bread is no longer bread and no elements of bread remain, and at the Consecration of the Wine then wine is no longer wine and the elements of wine do not remain. WE MUST ASK OURSELVES IF WE HOLD TO ANOTHER BELEIF THEN WHO GAVE US THIS BELIEF, IT WAS CERTAINLY NOT THE OFFICIAL TEACHING OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. Jesus unequivocally said "I Am the Bread of Life"
Now if indeed the Head of the Church is Jesus Christ and the Body is nothing without the Head, who ordered that the Tabernacle containing Christ should be removed from many of our altars. Who relegated Jesus to the sidelines or banned him from the Church by putting Him in another room??
WHAT DOES THE FALSE DOCTRINE THAT THE COMMUNITY IS ACTUALLY THE BODY OF CHRIST, SO WE HAVE NO NEED OF HIS REAL PRESENCE, ACTUALLY MEAN?
SHOULD I KNEEL OR STAND TO RECEIVE COMMUNION? Again without consultation many dioceses engaged in breaking down altar rails and calling it 'The Spirit of Vatican II'. So much had changed in the Council that change was to be welcomed whether authorised or not. No use protesting we will just have to get used to it. But there are backward Catholics who want to kneel when they receive the body of their sacrificed Christ. They feel they are sharing in the sacrifice that Jesus offered. No we must look united in Faith so these backward Catholics will have to do what they are tol.d.. . Should it he made compulsory for everyone to kneel? But then I would be attacking the beliefs of others the way they attacked mine. Much better to give them a choice. Should this question be raised at the Eucharist Congress?
All the above questions are being swept under the carpet in the Catholic Church in England and Wales. Is this Congress to be about Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament or will it rather focus on what some think are more meaningful matters. Will loving the Lord our God be a heigh priority or are they are only interested I'm the eye-catching matters- social justice and helping the poor?
A little history should vitalise this question. In the early Church at the Breaking of Bread it was soon realised that the hard saying of Jesus about eating my Flesh and drinking my Blood had been fulfilled when he ordered at the Last Supper for his followers to do this in memory of Him
SO HOW DO WE PREPARE OURSELVES BEFORE COMMUNION TO BE WORTHY OF RECEIVING JESUS? Perhaps you feel it does not matter. Just turn up and take the Body of Christ forget all the nonsense about confessing sins, and being worthy, it is Pre-Vatican II nonsense, We are now liberated.
Parts of the Sacred Species are not consumed and in the early Church hermits started keeping the consecrated Bread in their caves for adoration. Later monks kept the sacred species on their person, but when monasteries were built they kept them in safe places. Eventually as St John says "He dwelt amongst us" {literally , pitched his tent amongst us} and the present Tabernacle was formed, the Church has never officially approved of safes, and boxes, and any other replacements for the Tabernacle, such things were approved by the unilateral decision of local bishops and priests actually preventing the community from talking to Jesus. Is this action not that of the Anti-christ?.
SO SHOULD WE ADORE JESUS IN THE BLESSED SACRAMENT WITHIN THE TABERNACLE.? The Church agains tells us that the Sacred Species is worthy of the Adoration due to God. Jesus Christ is not in Bread as he is in Scripture or amongst a group where he is present as God, but in the Tabernacle he is present as God Made Man. He is still with us in his humanity sharing our joys, our sorrows, feeling as we do, capable of not just Divine love but Human love. A friend who will wipe our tears. In the Credo of the People of God Paul VI stated "in order to be approved for Catholic belief any definition of the Real Presence must conform to the teaching that at the words of Consecration Bread is no longer bread and no elements of bread remain, and at the Consecration of the Wine then wine is no longer wine and the elements of wine do not remain. WE MUST ASK OURSELVES IF WE HOLD TO ANOTHER BELEIF THEN WHO GAVE US THIS BELIEF, IT WAS CERTAINLY NOT THE OFFICIAL TEACHING OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. Jesus unequivocally said "I Am the Bread of Life"
Now if indeed the Head of the Church is Jesus Christ and the Body is nothing without the Head, who ordered that the Tabernacle containing Christ should be removed from many of our altars. Who relegated Jesus to the sidelines or banned him from the Church by putting Him in another room??
WHAT DOES THE FALSE DOCTRINE THAT THE COMMUNITY IS ACTUALLY THE BODY OF CHRIST, SO WE HAVE NO NEED OF HIS REAL PRESENCE, ACTUALLY MEAN?
SHOULD I KNEEL OR STAND TO RECEIVE COMMUNION? Again without consultation many dioceses engaged in breaking down altar rails and calling it 'The Spirit of Vatican II'. So much had changed in the Council that change was to be welcomed whether authorised or not. No use protesting we will just have to get used to it. But there are backward Catholics who want to kneel when they receive the body of their sacrificed Christ. They feel they are sharing in the sacrifice that Jesus offered. No we must look united in Faith so these backward Catholics will have to do what they are tol.d.. . Should it he made compulsory for everyone to kneel? But then I would be attacking the beliefs of others the way they attacked mine. Much better to give them a choice. Should this question be raised at the Eucharist Congress?
All the above questions are being swept under the carpet in the Catholic Church in England and Wales. Is this Congress to be about Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament or will it rather focus on what some think are more meaningful matters. Will loving the Lord our God be a heigh priority or are they are only interested I'm the eye-catching matters- social justice and helping the poor?
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