tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post2036018488411968956..comments2024-02-11T03:50:53.613-05:00Comments on Counterlight's Peculiars: Corpus ChristiUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-4731954971014889952014-06-25T07:06:16.908-04:002014-06-25T07:06:16.908-04:00A friend of mine, a former resident of Paris, says...A friend of mine, a former resident of Paris, says that the Sacrament is on permanent display at Sacre Couer, that big marble apology for the Commune, the Revolution, and for everything by the French Third Republic that looks like a Byzantine church designed by a gay wedding cake maker. He says that there is an inscription in French in the church that says "Hear Our Lord pleading with us through the Sacrament..."<br />To which my friend answers, "Let me out!"Counterlighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14345956180434795401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-88374993647902318702014-06-25T06:59:07.819-04:002014-06-25T06:59:07.819-04:00Fortunately, I don't watch EWTN. I prefer the...Fortunately, I don't watch EWTN. I prefer the Cartoon Network.<br />Maybe it's up to us Episcopal Anglo-Catholics to rescue the Sacrament from royalist and hierarchical agendas.Counterlighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14345956180434795401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-59613756220115211672014-06-25T03:52:42.770-04:002014-06-25T03:52:42.770-04:00I'm (shock!) ambivalent.
The doing of Corpus ...I'm (shock!) ambivalent.<br /><br />The <i>doing</i> of Corpus Christi (procession, benediction), I like.<br /><br />The painting of cookies---the singing of songs specifically TO cookies---I don't get. Why not paint the Last Supper, or the Crucifixion? Why not just sing TO GOD, in the (Real) presence of the cookie?<br /><br />I definitely feel closer to God---closer than most times&places---praying in the Presence of the Sacrament.<br /><br />Still the Roman *hammering* (and yammering, on EWTN) that the cookie is *identical* to God ("Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity") seems designed to offend (much in the way the past couple of centuries of Papally-proclaimed dogmas have been: chief among them, Papal Infallibility!). As if, "you can't be one of us, until you overcome your instinct AND rationality which says 'this is nuts'".<br /><br />Yes, yes, yes: John 6. Heard it, got it. Whatever the various interpretations of that text, I don't think the lesson for the CHURCH should be, "push people away/wait till they grovel in submission". The Sacrament of Christ's Body & Blood shouldn't be a weapon (or electified fence!).JCFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14516376500318551838noreply@blogger.com