I think many of us have lost the ability to have conversations with friends through too much screen time, podcasts, our busyness. I use questions, like 15 Minutes with Jesus and examinations of conscience or prompts, to encourage a conversation with Jesus with LOTS OF LISTENING in adoration. Helps me slow down but also stay focused on Him and to be still and know that He is God.
Shouldn't Eucharist Revival include reverence in how we receive our Lord? From the communion rail, and the consecrated hands of the priests. I would bet that a lot of Catholics would come back to church if we returned to tradition.
If I were a cynical person i could say: strange how it wasnt that 'they don't believe' was what triggered the call for action, but that they 'weren't going to Mass,' lessening the weekly take in the collection basket; still i suppose it is better that they are there, even if they don't believe hoping that one day they will
Hi Vicki! The Eucharistic Revival page has several resources, including this study: www.eucharisticrevival.org/jesus-and-the-eucharist Hope this helps! God Bless!
_Eucharistic_ revival? What ever happened to faith in the propitiation Jesus completed on the cross 2,000 years ago for the remission of our sins? Has it been replaced by faith in the eating and drinking? Can we really receive Christ through the digestive tract, or are we supposed to receive Him spiritually and by faith?
@@maffercitpaz5728 Read John 6:63-64, where Jesus explained that His words were spiritual, not literal, and that eating flesh counts for nothing. Read verses 28-29, 35, 40, and 47 to understand the true context concerning Jesus' intention. He was trying to convince the doubters to believe in Him and thereby to take Him into themselves with faith... not through the digestive tract. Remember, what you eat with the mouth eventually winds up in the toilet.
@@rexlion4510 The why did he allow disciples to leave? He also challenged the Apostles to leave because those who left are like you. They would not accept the literal meaning of this teaching. It was too difficult. You also don't understand the Covenant, which required a covenantal meal and ritual. Read the Church Fathers and their writings on the Eucharist. They were closer in time to Jesus and the Apostles than us and believed as do Catholics still do.. Yes his words are spiritual because they are inspired by the Holy Spirit and are true....literally.
@@carolbydlon6275 You cannot deny that Catholics routinely direct their worship toward the image of bread that they see with their eyes. I'm talking about the Catholic Eucharist. What did God say about using images in worship? Exo 20:4,5 "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them..." Lev 26:1 "Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God."
Focus on JESUS as THE person who loves us. The rest will follow. It's not our job anyway, it's the Holy Spirit Who does the actual work of attraction and conversion.
A third problem with Transubstantiation doctrine is the concept of "the whole Christ" being fully present in every host and in every sip. The early fathers' writings contradict this concept, for the physicality of Jesus Christ is necessarily a component of "the whole Christ," but Jesus' physicality is not on earth until the Second Advent. Augustine made the point that Jesus has ascended into heaven and, according to Scripture, will not be seen again on earth until the Second Advent; at that time, "every eye shall see Him" coming in the clouds. Augustine wrote: “According to the flesh that the word received : according to that he was born of the Virgin : according to that he was taken of the Jews : according to that he was nailed to the Cross : according to that he was taken down, and lapt in a shroud, and laid in the grave, and rose again, and showed himself. In this respect it is true that he said : Ye shall not evermore have me with you.” “Until the world be ended, the Lord is above: yet notwithstanding even here is the truth of the Lord. For the body wherein he rose again must needs be in one place.” Vigilius said likewise: “The flesh of Christ when it was in earth, was not in heaven : and now, because it is in heaven, doubtless it is not on earth.” (Against Eutychus) Athanasius agreed with this: “Unto how many men could Christ’s body have sufficed, that he should be the food of all the world ? Therefore he made mention of his ascension into heaven, that he might *withdraw them from corporal and fleshly understanding.”* Moreover, how can we suppose that Jesus' entire physical body can be locally contained to the size of a single wafer, to fit into a person's mouth, and yet His entire physical body is also locally contained in _the next_ wafer for the next person, and so on, ad infinitum? And who could possibly ingest the entirety of God the Son in one swallow? And who would wish to ingest the entirety of Jesus' physicality? I don't know about you, but frankly there are some body parts I do not think appropriate to eat! The very thing which sets Transubstantiation doctrine apart from, say, Anglican Eucharistic doctrine is the physicality component necessitated by claim that the "whole Christ" is contained in each and every bit of the Communion elements. We see from the early writers that Real Presence can be distinguished from Transubstantiation. We can _recognize_ the Body and Blood (the Real Presence) of Christ in the Eucharist, without going to the extreme of Transubstantiation. As has been written on catholic dot com, "The doctrine of the Real Presence is necessarily contained in the doctrine of transubstantiation, but the doctrine of transubstantiation is not necessarily contained in the Real Presence. Christ could become really present without transubstantiation taking place..." Please consider this: at the Last Supper, Jesus did not say, do this to partake of My Being. He did not say, do this to receive grace. He identified the bread with the body which He was about to give up on the cross (the next day), and He said, "Do this in memory of Me." Jesus wants us to eat with the realization that our Propitiator and Redeemer has done all the work for us, and that "whoever believes has eternal life" (John 6:47). Not 'whoever eats,' but whoever _believes_ that his sins have been washed away by Jesus Christ. Joh 3:14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, Joh 3:15 that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. Joh 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. Joh 3:17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Joh 3:18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
Amen!
God bless you guys
I think many of us have lost the ability to have conversations with friends through too much screen time, podcasts, our busyness. I use questions, like 15 Minutes with Jesus and examinations of conscience or prompts, to encourage a conversation with Jesus with LOTS OF LISTENING in adoration. Helps me slow down but also stay focused on Him and to be still and know that He is God.
Shouldn't Eucharist Revival include reverence in how we receive our Lord?
From the communion rail, and the consecrated hands of the priests. I would bet that a lot of Catholics would come back to church if we returned to tradition.
Old excuse frome you my friend. The church still God's church ⛪️. Come back and show everyone how to be respectful 🙏 viva Cristo Rey.
We're shortage of priest and tlm is not available everywhere,so lay people help too for holy communion.
Revival can not come unless there is Eucharistic Reparation!
If I were a cynical person i could say: strange how it wasnt that 'they don't believe' was what triggered the call for action, but that they 'weren't going to Mass,' lessening the weekly take in the collection basket; still i suppose it is better that they are there, even if they don't believe hoping that one day they will
WRECK GOT IT
ICE CUBE WHAT SPEAK CLEARLY WENT BACK 4TIMES STILL DID NOT HEAR IT ??/
What is the 7 week study? Info please, I lead a ladies small faith group and I'm looking for my fall study.
Hi Vicki! The Eucharistic Revival page has several resources, including this study:
www.eucharisticrevival.org/jesus-and-the-eucharist
Hope this helps! God Bless!
Ahhh, because we need Montse Alvarado
_Eucharistic_ revival? What ever happened to faith in the propitiation Jesus completed on the cross 2,000 years ago for the remission of our sins? Has it been replaced by faith in the eating and drinking? Can we really receive Christ through the digestive tract, or are we supposed to receive Him spiritually and by faith?
Read John 6:53-57. Jesus wasn’t kidding.
@@maffercitpaz5728 Read John 6:63-64, where Jesus explained that His words were spiritual, not literal, and that eating flesh counts for nothing.
Read verses 28-29, 35, 40, and 47 to understand the true context concerning Jesus' intention. He was trying to convince the doubters to believe in Him and thereby to take Him into themselves with faith... not through the digestive tract. Remember, what you eat with the mouth eventually winds up in the toilet.
@@rexlion4510 The why did he allow disciples to leave? He also challenged the Apostles to leave because those who left are like you. They would not accept the literal meaning of this teaching. It was too difficult.
You also don't understand the Covenant, which required a covenantal meal and ritual. Read the Church Fathers and their writings on the Eucharist. They were closer in time to Jesus and the Apostles than us and believed as do Catholics still do..
Yes his words are spiritual because they are inspired by the Holy Spirit and are true....literally.
@@carolbydlon6275 You cannot deny that Catholics routinely direct their worship toward the image of bread that they see with their eyes. I'm talking about the Catholic Eucharist. What did God say about using images in worship?
Exo 20:4,5 "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them..."
Lev 26:1 "Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God."
It definitely ain’t coming from the Paulists!😂😂😂
Focus on JESUS as THE person who loves us. The rest will follow. It's not our job anyway, it's the Holy Spirit Who does the actual work of attraction and conversion.
We're not charged to cooperate with the Spirit?
The early church is Orthodoxy
Pretty sure that’s a book by G.K. Chesterton
A third problem with Transubstantiation doctrine is the concept of "the whole Christ" being fully present in every host and in every sip. The early fathers' writings contradict this concept, for the physicality of Jesus Christ is necessarily a component of "the whole Christ," but Jesus' physicality is not on earth until the Second Advent.
Augustine made the point that Jesus has ascended into heaven and, according to Scripture, will not be seen again on earth until the Second Advent; at that time, "every eye shall see Him" coming in the clouds. Augustine wrote:
“According to the flesh that the word received : according to that he was born of the Virgin : according to that he was taken of the Jews : according to that he was nailed to the Cross : according to that he was taken down, and lapt in a shroud, and laid in the grave, and rose again, and showed himself. In this respect it is true that he said : Ye shall not evermore have me with you.”
“Until the world be ended, the Lord is above: yet notwithstanding even here is the truth of the Lord. For the body wherein he rose again must needs be in one place.”
Vigilius said likewise: “The flesh of Christ when it was in earth, was not in heaven : and now, because it is in heaven, doubtless it is not on earth.” (Against Eutychus)
Athanasius agreed with this: “Unto how many men could Christ’s body have sufficed, that he should be the food of all the world ? Therefore he made mention of his ascension into heaven, that he might *withdraw them from corporal and fleshly understanding.”*
Moreover, how can we suppose that Jesus' entire physical body can be locally contained to the size of a single wafer, to fit into a person's mouth, and yet His entire physical body is also locally contained in _the next_ wafer for the next person, and so on, ad infinitum? And who could possibly ingest the entirety of God the Son in one swallow? And who would wish to ingest the entirety of Jesus' physicality? I don't know about you, but frankly there are some body parts I do not think appropriate to eat!
The very thing which sets Transubstantiation doctrine apart from, say, Anglican Eucharistic doctrine is the physicality component necessitated by claim that the "whole Christ" is contained in each and every bit of the Communion elements. We see from the early writers that Real Presence can be distinguished from Transubstantiation. We can _recognize_ the Body and Blood (the Real Presence) of Christ in the Eucharist, without going to the extreme of Transubstantiation. As has been written on catholic dot com, "The doctrine of the Real Presence is necessarily contained in the doctrine of transubstantiation, but the doctrine of transubstantiation is not necessarily contained in the Real Presence. Christ could become really present without transubstantiation taking place..."
Please consider this: at the Last Supper, Jesus did not say, do this to partake of My Being. He did not say, do this to receive grace. He identified the bread with the body which He was about to give up on the cross (the next day), and He said, "Do this in memory of Me." Jesus wants us to eat with the realization that our Propitiator and Redeemer has done all the work for us, and that "whoever believes has eternal life" (John 6:47). Not 'whoever eats,' but whoever _believes_ that his sins have been washed away by Jesus Christ.
Joh 3:14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
Joh 3:15 that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.
Joh 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Joh 3:17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
Joh 3:18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
Amen Amen 🙌