tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29191589.post6748098929824060121..comments2023-10-25T04:22:54.910-07:00Comments on An Anglican Priest: The Ruminations of a Canterbury Cap Catholic: Rev. Dr. Hasserthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14350737386756722887noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29191589.post-71677182528018343652008-08-08T06:00:00.000-07:002008-08-08T06:00:00.000-07:00Dear Anglican Cleric:Thank you for your response. ...Dear Anglican Cleric:<BR/><BR/>Thank you for your response. I am in TEC. I recently attended a first eucharist at a nearby REC church with positive experience. After lookig at both Rome and the East I now know that I am definitely an Anglican.<BR/><BR/>In Christ,<BR/>CarerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29191589.post-11633818321751911232008-08-07T16:56:00.000-07:002008-08-07T16:56:00.000-07:00Good point--Very much like the Articles use of the...Good point--Very much like the Articles use of the word "partaking of Christ" (that the wicked don't, even though they "receive the Sacrament of so great a thing" per Augustine and Aquinas), we should perhaps view ++Temple's use of "receive" in the way that Augustine and Aquinas use the term "eat"--with two possible meanings. Christ is given to all in the holy Sacrament (all receive and eat), and yet the wicked "eat not," meaning they do not actively partake. <BR/><BR/>per Aquinas:<BR/>"First, in De Sacramento Altaris, cap. XVII., Aquinas writes that:"The first mode of eating the Body of Christ is Sacramental only, which is the way wicked Christians eat it, because they, receiving (sumentes) the venerable Body into mouths polluted by mortal sin, close their hearts with their unclean and hard sins, as with mire and stone, against the effect which conies from the influence of His virtue and goodness. . . These eat, and yet they do not eat. They eat because they receive (sumunt) sacramentally the Body of the Lord, but, nevertheless, they eat not, because the spiritual virtue, that is, the salvation of the soul they do not partake (non percipiunt). . . .<BR/>There is, says Gregory, in sinners and in those receiving unworthily the true Flesh and true Blood of Christ in efficacious essence, but not in wholesome efficiency. He who is at variance with Christ, says Augustine, 'neither eats His Flesh nor drinks His Blood,' and though he daily receives (sumat) the Sacrament of so great a thing, he receives it unto judgment. They are at variance with Christ who, averting the purposes of their heart from him, turn them to sin. And such may be said, to be truly wretched to whom so great a good oftentimes comes, and yet, who never receive or partake (accipit sive percipit) of any spiritual gain therefrom."<BR/><BR/><BR/>Please see the full post using the address below:<BR/><BR/>http://anglicancleric.blogspot.com/search?q=Article+XXIXRev. Dr. Hasserthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14350737386756722887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29191589.post-2421971490418353742008-08-07T15:42:00.000-07:002008-08-07T15:42:00.000-07:00This is a beautiful statement on the reality of th...This is a beautiful statement on the reality of the Eucharist by a man of whom I have heard but with whom I am as yet unfamiliar. I want to be sure that I understand him in light of the teaching of the REC. He says "When with the right intention I receive the Bread and the Wine, I actually receive Christ, whether I have any awareness of this at the moment or not."<BR/><BR/>My understanding is that when I receive the Bread and Wine I receive Christ no matter what my intention. If my intention is right then I receive it to my salvation; if my attention is wrong then I receive it to my condemnation.<BR/><BR/>1 Corinthians 11 (English Standard Version)<BR/>23For(Y) I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that(Z) the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, 24and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, "This is my body which is for[e] you. Do this in remembrance of me."[f] 25In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me." 26For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death(AA) until he comes.<BR/><BR/> 27(AB) Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord(AC) in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning(AD) the body and blood of the Lord. 28(AE) Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. 29For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself.<BR/><BR/>In Christ,<BR/>CarterAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com