The Wine Is Jesus’ Blood (Catholic Answers): Christ’s blood at the Last Supper could still be present in the chalice even if it didn’t yet have the status of being the ‘blood of the covenant,’ since he hadn’t been slain yet.
Folly in the Seat of Wisdom (The Catholic Thing): “Reports out of New York say that the state’s Department of Health has issued warnings to the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne, whose order has, for over a century, run a hospice for patients dying of incurable cancer.”
Courage, The Apostolate That I Know Well (National Catholic Register): “The synod working group’s document on homosexuality has broader implications for Courage International.”
I’ve been Orthodox for over five years. Now I’m totally burned out. (Ghost Drive America – Substack): “Let’s take off the rose-colored glasses and make the lot of you mad at me.”
Idols of the Valley: Pope Leo’s wise but frustrating first missive on AI: “Since the beginning of his papacy a year ago, Pope Leo XIV has held out the promise of offering the world some much-needed wisdom on living well with technology.”
No, the just-war tradition is not ‘outdated’ (Catholic Culture): “Although I generally admired Pope Leo’s first encyclical, I was dismayed to read, in paragraph 192: Today, more than ever, without prejudice to the right to self-defense in the strictest sense, it is important to reaffirm that the “just war” theory, which has all too often been used to justify any kind of war, is now outdated.”
“I was found guilty of ‘insult’ for a publication in which I peacefully shared my Christian beliefs”—Finnish Parliamentarian Päivi Räsänen (The European Conservative): “The former minister is taking her case to Strasbourg, convinced that her case is no longer simply about religion or Finland but about who decides the limits of acceptable speech in Europe.”
“Re-Americanizing America: The Bond of Creed and Covenant” (Providence): “Our actions have to be toward building something good. That is, we can’t only work against, we must simultaneously work toward something. “
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Bishop Barron blasts Catholic left for ‘demonization’ of Trump amid child trafficking crisis (FOX News): “Bishop Robert Barron said he has been urging Catholics on the left to stop the “demonization” of the Trump administration, even when it comes to highly contentious issues such as immigration and border security.”
Pope Leo calls just war theory ‘outdated’ in new encyclical (Religion News Service): “Today, more than ever, without prejudice to the right to self-defense in the strictest sense, it is important to reaffirm that the ‘just war’ theory, which has all too often been used to justify any kind of war, is now outdated,” Leo writes in ‘Magnifica Humanitas.’
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Also of interest is yesterday’s The Catholic Thing: Pro-Life Academy calls for withdrawal of synod report on same-sex relations. Note: The authors of the Catholic Thing article were members of the Pontifical Academy for Life at one time, but were then fired by Francis.
“John Paul II Academy says Study Group 9 text reflects ‘spirit of the age,’ not Catholic doctrine, and risks reviving modernist errors.”
The article in NCR was very good, but a few comment responses seemed confused on how she completed her thoughts with optimism that the heterox are revealing hemselves for what they are. Not confusing to many of us. We need to identify and confront the cancer in the Church to at least reduce its damage.
Francis’ pontificate, from its inception by the St. Gallen mafia to its end was a scandal and will be the greatest challenge to indefectibility in the future-of course we’re only into a year of Leo and who knows what he’ll do.
@ The Wine is Jesus’ Blood
Whoever at Catholic Answers says that it could be the Precious Blood at the Last Supper “even if it did not yet have the status as blood of the covenant since he had been slain yet”.
In response it was indeed the blood of the covenant because he conferred it by his own words as the Author of Life and the realization of the covenant, which authority transcends time and place. Furthermore, it could not be other than the blood of the covenant because the covenant is established by his words of consecration.
The end reason is that the Holy Eucharist and the Crucifixion are inseparable. One cannot exist without the other transcending time. It would have been deception if he said, Take this all of you and drink from it, for this is the Chalice of My Blood, the Blood of the New and Eternal Covenant.
Jesus does not deceive us.
An exploration of Christ’s enactment of the sacrificial covenant at the Last Supper prior to the crucifixion on Calgary. What was Our Lord’s purpose? Catholic Answers Broussard suggests a form of rehearsal. Which has value for the Apostles.
Another consideration satisfies the reason why Christ came into our world as an oblation to the Father on our behalf. To lay down his life for us. To die that he may live in us as the Holy Eucharist. An act that prefigures the crucifixion.
On further thought the author of the Catholic Answers essay on the blood of the Eucharist at the Last Supper Karlo Broussard may have implied the Chalice did contain the blood of the covenant.
The Broussard article regarding the Blood of the Christ shows two opposing views of the same human error, that of placing God within time rather than time within God, and by doing so, shackles God with human constraints. Jesus and the Father are one.
The sacrifice is ever present before God in one eternal Now containing past, present, and future of all things and all possibilities, this also how we have freedom even in a foreknown only by God creation. The blood of the covenant is, has always been, and always will be, present before the Father, the same as it is present as re-presented by priests to this very day. It is properly a mystery outside of human ways of experiencing or explaining reality, which would take the mind of God to fully comprehend. Even this explanation falls short as it must.
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