Choosing between Secular 'Trans' & Catholic 'Trans' in Pride or Humility month. Ashenden Scripted.

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Ashenden Scripted Choosing between Secular 'Trans' & Catholic 'Trans' in Pride or Humility month. Ashenden Scripted. Whatever heaven might consist of , I’m hoping for some to some exciting and informative theological conversations. At the top of my list is a chat with St John over why he chose to make the last supper a platform for the washing of the disciples’ feet and not about the Eucharist? And that’s not the only conversation. There I another pressing one. I want to ask St Jerome who translated the Greek text into the Latin Vulgate, why on earth he translated ‘epiousios arton’ in the Lord’s Prayer into ‘panis quotidianum’ ? ‘Bread for the whole of our contingent being’ (episousious is a made up word used just to describe the mind blowing message of Jesus) and is not the same as ‘Daily food’. The two conversations are connected, because by doing so St Jerome reduces the Eucharistic overtones the Lord intended to comprise the central hinge of the Lord’s prayer. And the miracle of the Mass down the centuries has been the nuclear energy that fed, inspired, haled and empowered the Church as through it, Christians fed on Christ, and were themselves transformed. Guiding the Church down the centuries seems to be a business not unlike adjusting the help of a sailing ship; constant corrections and adjustments. Some are to compensate for a change in the weather, and others for human error. One of the great shocks of our own culture is the discovery from Pew research that about 69% of Catholics in American don’t in fact believe in the miracle of the mass. They have become de facto protestant or secularised in their incapacity to believe with their heart what their rationally propagandized minds tell them is impossible. Given the importance, significance and power of the sacrifice of the Mass it seems to be not unreasonable that our Lord would want to speak to a medieval mystic about creating a Feast to rebalance of the life of the church. The Feast of Corpus Christi found its origin in the prayer life of St Julianna of Liege in the 13th century . AM9UGNTE7XOZJDMX

Topics

• Humility
• Pride
• Christian Living