tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18902745.post3867156804484024240..comments2024-03-24T15:19:06.377-04:00Comments on The Continuum: “ONCE FOR ALL”Fr. Robert Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05892141425033196616noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18902745.post-71006232819937974602014-06-15T09:02:35.889-04:002014-06-15T09:02:35.889-04:00A little late, but better than never in answer to...A little late, but better than never in answer to the Semi-Hookerian, the word would be "Yes!" Not that I personally do that sort of thing, but I attended Anglo-Catholic (verging on Anglo-papalist) parishes rasing my children because the others neglected the pattern of prayer book worship and was frequently master of ceremonies and sub-deacon.<br />Canon Tallishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05182884929479435751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18902745.post-2381836539411091002014-06-07T15:16:27.303-04:002014-06-07T15:16:27.303-04:00I have read - and to some extent, reread - E.L. Ma...I have read - and to some extent, reread - E.L. Mascall's Corpus Christi, and probably should, again.<br /><br />Before I do, I'll ask, with the Feast of Corpus Christi (for those who can receive it, so to put it) approaching, are Hosts employed in processions and Solemn Bendiction, always (or customarily = 'if at all possible'), eventually comsumed?<br /><br />And has anyone any other 'recommended reading' on the history of the articulation of the perception that at the historically last 'Last Supper', Our Lord "gave Himself in either kind,/His precious flesh, His precious blood,/ In love’s own fullness thus designed / Of the whole man to be the Food", as Neale's translation of 'Verbum supernum prodiens' puts it - that is, before His Passion, Death, Burial, and Resurrection?<br /><br />Semi-Hookerian<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18902745.post-1378451788373078152014-06-02T23:06:31.197-04:002014-06-02T23:06:31.197-04:00One was the grotesque notion that at every celebra...<i>One was the grotesque notion that at every celebration of the Mass, our Lord and Saviour is re-sacrificed or even re-crucified</i><br /><br /> I was about to say something about this, when I decided to stop myself and read further. Then I saw this...<i>We must be quick to say that such was never the dogmatic teaching of the pre-Reformation Church nor of the Roman Church at the Reformation or now.</i><br /><br />So I'm not sure if it's worth saying what I was originally going to say. I was going to comment that the official RCC word on the matter, but it seems now like I'd just be pedantic. So...why bother?<br /><br />It may be fair to say that at one time RCC overemphasized the sacrificial nature of the Mass, at the expense of the Lord's Supper nature. But I often worry that the Reformation makes a similar error from the other end of the spectrum, in which the Lord's Supper is overemphasized and the sacrifice ignored.<br /><br />I can be criticized for this--and perhaps I will be--but it seems to me that without the sacrifice of the Lamb, one cannot have a Pascal Feast. And that without feasting on the Body and Blood of Christ, there's little sense in the sacrifice. The sacrifice is finished by consuming the meat. <br />The Mass must be at once the sacrifice on Calvary <i>and</i> the Last Supper. I don't know how these can be separated and put into binary opposition as they have been. (Not here by Fr. Wells, but elsewhere by others.) <br /><br />Thank you, Fr. Wells, for pulling me out of my mundane duties and making me think about the higher things again.<br /><br />RC ColaRC Colanoreply@blogger.com