Daily Archives: 16 January 2006

EXCERPT:
Is it possible that the guitar strumming and all those kumbayas of the 1960’s affected the ICEL translators choice of words? I suppose we could all stand outside the headquarters of the USCCB and sing, “All we are saying, is give Latin a chance!” while swaying back and forth holding our lighters in the air.
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The point of Holy Communion is that we are consuming that with conforms us to it, unlike regular food which we conform to us. In our baptism we are reborn as new men and women conformed to Christ. In the Eucharist we bring more and more to completion what was begun in baptism by nourishing with celestial food the new man who was reborn. We are perfecting and conforming God’s image to be more and more like the perfect visible image of the invisible God, Jesus Christ, eternal God made man. This is something to rejoice and take pride in indeed, not because of our own merits, but because of the merits of the one really present in the Host just consumed who is actually working this good work in us. So, at this moment after and of Communion we are praying about the present reality of actually obtaining and the life-giving, “quickening” grace that makes us sons and daughters of God, and then continuing that present reality in an ongoing way, such that we can justly “vaunt.” Continue reading →

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Some Protestants are under the false impression that Catholics think we can earn our way to heaven by our own good works. We believe, that our good works always have their origin in God. But we believe that they are truly our works as well, and that they merit the reward of God’s promises. Whenever we find a reference to works in these prayers, we should keep in mind always the Catholic understanding of good works.
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