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Mass for Monday of the 16th Week of the Year

Posted on July 20, 2020 by Father Joe

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2 Responses

  1. Mike Minihan, on September 8, 2020 at 5:16 pm said:

    Have you gone silent, or have I been removed from the distribution list?

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    FATHER JOE: I have been very busy and preoccupied with problems created by the pandemic.

  2. eucharist angel, on September 1, 2020 at 2:04 pm said:

    xJesus no more wishes us to drink his blood than he wants us to cut off our hand, pluck out our eye or hate our parents– as he stated elsewhere. These are spiritual, not literal truths!


    FATHER JOE:

    The biblical context distinguished the use of Hebraic hyperbole from when he insisted upon a literal appreciation of the Eucharist. Look at the Gospel of John! Our Lord repeated himself, again and again, and even allowed the murmuring Jews (who could not accept it) to walk away. They knew that Jesus meant what he said. Indeed, at the Lord’s Supper he spoke about the bread and wine transformed into his body and blood as a new covenant. A covenant could not be established in a fake offering. Jesus tells his apostles to do as he did in remembrance of him, re-presenting his oblation in the Eucharist— the saving activity and the real presence of the one who is the divine Lamb of God.

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