tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1272185648594217845.post4463357665384893919..comments2023-10-14T05:13:56.774-07:00Comments on Journey in Faith: eucharist and the rabbiJeff Marxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05050839922405054732noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1272185648594217845.post-75743094640257249372014-03-13T09:07:09.631-07:002014-03-13T09:07:09.631-07:00>the words of institution are interpreted in di...>the words of institution are interpreted in different ways by people. <br /><br />They are, indeed. What new or deeper understanding did your ignorant post add to the matter, Jeff?<br /><br />>I quote actual conversations. But then you know that<br /><br />Well no, bud, I don't, because that's now how you presented those passages in your post. For all any reader could tell, the comments and questions were your own. Reread it for yourself, as I just did, and ask how anyone could tell that you meant to be quoting others. They can't.<br /><br />But really, that doesn't matter, and this is just another lame dodge on your part, isn't it, Jeff? Whether others said those things or you did, the question is, again, what new or deeper understanding did your post add to the words of institution? How did your ignorant thoughts help anyone understand the nature of the sacrament or bring anyone closer to Jesus?<br /><br />We both know the answer to that, Jeff. You understand nothing and add nothing. You don't care about the truth, and any attempt to get at it bores you, as you've just admitted.<br /><br />So why do you continue to type? Michael Hugginshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03526679655270747708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1272185648594217845.post-54295002417017009182014-03-13T06:33:54.857-07:002014-03-13T06:33:54.857-07:00Thanks Rob!
Michael, you will be shocked to know ...Thanks Rob!<br /><br />Michael, you will be shocked to know that the words of institution are interpreted in different ways by people. I quote actual conversations. But then you know that, you do not care, you want to illustrate that I am an inept idiot and a child, and etc etc etc... <br />You are boring Michael...Jeff Marxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05050839922405054732noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1272185648594217845.post-24565095305558354972014-03-12T22:40:26.534-07:002014-03-12T22:40:26.534-07:00(Continued)
I don't know much about quantum p...(Continued)<br /><br />I don't know much about quantum physics. Two things follow from that. First, I don't set myself up as a teacher of it. Second, I don't blog about it.<br /><br />Ponder that, Jeff. You don't know what you are talking about. You all but admit it.<br /><br />But you won't stop typing.<br /><br />Ask yourself why.<br /><br />I know you've concocted this persecution fantasy for yourself in which you imagine that I criticize you because you won't surrender your faith and adopt my position. But that's not true. I criticize you because you don't take your faith seriously enough and degrade it by your silliness. This pathetic entry on your part is another instance of that. It's really too bad.Michael Hugginshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03526679655270747708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1272185648594217845.post-38684826475515049152014-03-12T22:39:49.147-07:002014-03-12T22:39:49.147-07:00>My atheist critic no doubt would say it is a s...>My atheist critic no doubt would say it is a silly waste of time, reminding us of someone long dead on a cross, and providing us with a reality-denying escape.<br /><br />Actually, Jeff, your reality-denying escape consists of masquerading as a priest, when you continue to make it obvious that you know little or nothing about the doctrines you profess to uphold, as this latest misbegotten effort proves.<br /><br />From time to time, I check your blog to see if you are still determined to present yourself as abjectly stupid, and alas, you seldom disappoint. Now it's true that as an atheist, I don't believe there is a God or Son of God and that Jesus of Nazareth is deceased, so that there can be no question of having a "relationship" with him or any other dead person.<br /><br />But forget my view for a moment. Let's take the one you profess to believe but obviously don't understand.<br /><br />I forget whether you celebrate Rite I or Rite II, but each addresses, with simple and moving eloquence, the point you have mangled here. <br /><br />Rite I says:<br /><br />"...we most humbly beseech thee, O merciful Father, to<br />hear us; and, of thy almighty goodness, vouchsafe to bless<br />and sanctify, with thy Word and Holy Spirit, these thy gifts<br />and creatures of bread and wine; that we, receiving them<br />according to thy Son our Savior Jesus Christ's holy institution,<br />in remembrance of his death and passion, may be partakers<br />of his most blessed Body and Blood."<br /><br />Rite II says:<br /><br />"...we offer you these gifts.<br /><br />Sanctify them by your Holy Spirit to be for your people the <br />Body and Blood of your Son, the holy food and drink of new <br />and unending life in him. Sanctify us also that we may faithfully <br />receive this holy Sacrament..."<br /><br />If one believes that, as you profess to do, then it is unlikely that one can add much of value to it--least of all an impertinent fool like you, Jeff. Your readers would have been much better served if you had simply had the sense to say something like the following:<br /><br />"Having preached this holy mystery and celebrated it for years, I can still not claim to have understood it at its deepest level. My non-Catholic friends speak only of remembrance, but I rely, in simple faith, on the grace it seems to promise that, in the catholic understanding, is peculiar to the sacrament and uniquely present there."<br /><br />That would have pretty well covered it, bud. Instead, because you are a heedless boy, you make a perfect fool of yourself by saying the following:<br /><br />"I think I am encountering Someone who is there (in and through). Calling that 'real presence' or 'spiritual presence', literal or spiritual, does little to progress the discussion. What is an ontological change vs. a spiritual change. If it is only a change in me does that imply Christian communion is a miracle in the believer (it becomes Jesus' body "for" me in faith) or that faith is purely subjective, actually a friendly from of schizophrenia (nothing really happens we just think it does, but it is our reality).I am not sure what 'spiritually present' means, nor are the people who use the term."<br /><br />I'm just shaking my head in disbelief. Every last time I read one of your stupid ramblings, I think of Job 38: "Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge." We get it, Jeff--you are a clown who knows and understands little about the central mystery of Christian worship but wants to treat everyone to his inane ramblings anyway.<br /><br />Why?<br /><br />Really, Jeff. Why?<br /><br />(Continued)<br />Michael Hugginshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03526679655270747708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1272185648594217845.post-58378555015058773782014-03-12T12:30:56.429-07:002014-03-12T12:30:56.429-07:00Great stuff here Fr. Jeff!!Great stuff here Fr. Jeff!!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06591726382539189853noreply@blogger.com