QUOTE: For the Roman Catholic, on the basis of his doctrine of simplicity, it would become necessary to say the Eucharist is also the essence of God, if the "participation" in God is real: But no one says the Eucharist is the essence of God, as it would be absurd.
This is how many (most) common Catholics view the Eucharist as exhibited, for instance, in their "cultic" devotions attached to the Eucharist. Or, in Woke parishes, how they evoke the very essence of God to participate in their ever changing transgressive reconstructions of Creation itself : which is easily done when Grace, and Life in God, is, itself, a created thing.
This (the quote) is also demonstrated in how (and what) Catholics squeeze from their term Transubstantiation. Their notion of Absolute Divine Simplicity (forcing modal collapse at all levels, even as they attempt to hide or justify its effects) encourages them to assume that when they receive the Bread & Wine they are consuming the very essence of God which they "taste" by consuming Christ's divinity. They easily (commonly) declare this about the Divinity of Christ - receive and consume the very unnameable, unknowable hiddenness Christ has with the Father - yet, what does this say about the Eucharistic consumption of the Humanity of Christ.? How does that work out in Absolute Divine Simplicity? Lines are erased, boundaries are crossed.
Absolute Divine Simplicity takes - almost as a final movement - the collapsing of the Eucharistic Bread & Wine into the very essence of God. At day's end, taking things to their logical conclusion, Catholics, common or otherwise, can vouch for no other position. (Know - this dissing on the term Transubstantiation - is a bit touchy among those Orthodox working towards union.)
It (the quote) also underlies their practice of 'performing' the Mass with only the priest present, absent the full assembly of the Church. And - if I am not going too far out on a limb dipping into the deep end - it also backgrounds their constant reminder (liturgical and otherwise) that it is the (incantational) work of the priest's words which effect "the great change", not the call upon the Holy Spirit which is strikingly (even shockingly) made manifest in the Orthodox Divine Liturgy.
TELL ALEX THE FOLLOWNG NOW ! BSD ' TIME BETWEEN PURIM AND PESACH ? THE RED HEIFER IS THE TIKKUN FOR THE 72 NATIONS AROUND THE WORLD. THIS IS GODS WORLD ! READ THE PARSHA / TORAH THIS WEEK !
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QUOTE: For the Roman Catholic, on the basis of his doctrine of simplicity, it would become necessary to say the Eucharist is also the essence of God, if the "participation" in God is real: But no one says the Eucharist is the essence of God, as it would be absurd.
This is how many (most) common Catholics view the Eucharist as exhibited, for instance, in their "cultic" devotions attached to the Eucharist. Or, in Woke parishes, how they evoke the very essence of God to participate in their ever changing transgressive reconstructions of Creation itself : which is easily done when Grace, and Life in God, is, itself, a created thing.
This (the quote) is also demonstrated in how (and what) Catholics squeeze from their term Transubstantiation. Their notion of Absolute Divine Simplicity (forcing modal collapse at all levels, even as they attempt to hide or justify its effects) encourages them to assume that when they receive the Bread & Wine they are consuming the very essence of God which they "taste" by consuming Christ's divinity. They easily (commonly) declare this about the Divinity of Christ - receive and consume the very unnameable, unknowable hiddenness Christ has with the Father - yet, what does this say about the Eucharistic consumption of the Humanity of Christ.? How does that work out in Absolute Divine Simplicity? Lines are erased, boundaries are crossed.
Absolute Divine Simplicity takes - almost as a final movement - the collapsing of the Eucharistic Bread & Wine into the very essence of God. At day's end, taking things to their logical conclusion, Catholics, common or otherwise, can vouch for no other position. (Know - this dissing on the term Transubstantiation - is a bit touchy among those Orthodox working towards union.)
It (the quote) also underlies their practice of 'performing' the Mass with only the priest present, absent the full assembly of the Church. And - if I am not going too far out on a limb dipping into the deep end - it also backgrounds their constant reminder (liturgical and otherwise) that it is the (incantational) work of the priest's words which effect "the great change", not the call upon the Holy Spirit which is strikingly (even shockingly) made manifest in the Orthodox Divine Liturgy.
great analysis on the article.
TELL ALEX THE FOLLOWNG NOW ! BSD ' TIME BETWEEN PURIM AND PESACH ? THE RED HEIFER IS THE TIKKUN FOR THE 72 NATIONS AROUND THE WORLD. THIS IS GODS WORLD ! READ THE PARSHA / TORAH THIS WEEK !
THE LIVING TORAH ! THE GREGORIAN CALENDAR IS INCORRECT MATHEMATICALLY !