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††††††††† VERITATIS SPLENDOR †††††††††
This channel is dedicated to the SPLENDOR OF TRUTH.
Truth is not just a "something". THE TRUTH is Somebody, a real Person, Who is absolute, unchanging, and universally knowable. His Name is Jesus Christ, and He is the Only, Most Splendid, "Word" of God - the ULTIMATE EXPRESSION of THE LOVE Who is the Creator of all things. He is the very ground of all reality, for through Him, with Him, and in Him, all things were made.
Today this "Word" of God is most fully revealed to man through His living Body, the Church - His One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church - which Jesus Himself founded, commissioned to proclaim Him to all nations, and pledged to be with until the end of time. Thus, at the heart of the Church, guiding her Mission and shepherding her into the fullness of truth (which is Himself), is Christ Himself, always present in her, as she preaches Him crucified for the redemption of fallen man. Faithful to His promise, our incarnate God dwells with(in) us - in Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity - "all days", "even unto the end of time." Jesus truly is our Emmanuel ("God with us").
This Real Presence of God in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar was vividly paralleled in the Old Testament of Scripture: "In the daytime the cloud of the Lord was seen over the Dwelling; whereas at night, fire was seen in the cloud by the WHOLE house of Israel in ALL the stages of their journey." (Exodus 40:38) Once God was distantly visible to His people in a Pillar of Cloud; now He (the God whose actions are NEVER regressive) is intimately present to us in His "Pillar and Bulwark of truth", which is His Church. There is nothing "metaphorical" about this, just as there was nothing metaphorical about the visible fire of God's presence among the Israelites. Now He is here in Person, accompanying us and sustaining us, not with the old manna (which our fathers ate and died), but with the true Bread of Life - His own eucharistic Flesh and Blood. God's inanimate temple of Old Testament times has passed away. Now, all who are temples of His living Presence "will never die".
Through the ministry of His Church, "lifted up" on her altars, our ETERNAL High Priest-Victim continues His TIME TRANSCENDANT SACRIFICE of Calvary (the only acceptable, propitiatory and ONGOING oblation to His Father). Thereby He "draws all men" away from the darkness and death of sin, unto (actually, INTO) Himself. And through Himself, into the very heart of the eternal Godhead. Quite literally. For He is TRUTH Himself, Who invites all men to abide IN Him. And it is He, LIFE personified, Who has personally established this most Glorious WAY for man to enter into eternal life.
What is eternal life? Rather, Who is Eternal Life? Why, it is none other than Jesus Christ the Lord, Son of God, now Son of Man, Who, made Flesh for us, declares, "I am the Life" and then warns most plainly, "Unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood, you have no life (ME) in you!" For it is only by being subsumed eucharistically INTO the Son that mere human flesh can "come to" the Father - Who is (otherwise impenetrable) Divine Spirit.
Thus the Holy Eucharist is the Source, Centre and Summit of the authentic Christian life. The Life of God IN man, and the life of man IN God.
******** GOD = WORD = FLESH = LIFE ********
"In the beginning was the WORD, and the Word was with God, and the Word was GOD." (John 1:1)
"And the Word became FLESH and made his DWELLING among us." (John 1:14)
"... my flesh is TRUE FOOD, and my blood is TRUE DRINK. Whoever EATS MY FLESH and DRINKS MY BLOOD remains IN me and I IN him." (John 6: 55-56)
"No one comes to the Father except THROUGH me." (John 14:6)
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"Faithful to Christ's command to "do this in memory of me" (Lk 22:19), the Church in every time and place celebrates the Eucharist until the Lord returns in glory, rejoicing in His sacramental presence and drawing upon the power of His saving sacrifice for the redemption of the world.
The Eucharistic sacrifice of the Body and Blood of Christ embraces the mystery of our Lord's continuing Passion in the members of his Mystical Body, the Church in every age.
Our Eternal High Priest daily unites our own sacrifices, our own sufferings, our own needs, hopes and aspirations, to the infinite merits of His sacrifice.
Through Him, with Him, and in Him, we lift up our own bodies as a sacrifice holy and acceptable to God (cf. Rom 12:1). In this sense we are caught up in His eternal oblation, completing, as Saint Paul says, in our flesh what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of His body, the Church (cf. Col 1:24).
In the life of the Church, in her trials and tribulations, Christ continues, in the stark phrase of Pascal (Pensées, 553, éd. Brunschvicg) to be in agony until the end of the world."
- Pope Benedict XVI
This channel is dedicated to the SPLENDOR OF TRUTH.
Truth is not just a "something". THE TRUTH is Somebody, a real Person, Who is absolute, unchanging, and universally knowable. His Name is Jesus Christ, and He is the Only, Most Splendid, "Word" of God - the ULTIMATE EXPRESSION of THE LOVE Who is the Creator of all things. He is the very ground of all reality, for through Him, with Him, and in Him, all things were made.
Today this "Word" of God is most fully revealed to man through His living Body, the Church - His One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church - which Jesus Himself founded, commissioned to proclaim Him to all nations, and pledged to be with until the end of time. Thus, at the heart of the Church, guiding her Mission and shepherding her into the fullness of truth (which is Himself), is Christ Himself, always present in her, as she preaches Him crucified for the redemption of fallen man. Faithful to His promise, our incarnate God dwells with(in) us - in Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity - "all days", "even unto the end of time." Jesus truly is our Emmanuel ("God with us").
This Real Presence of God in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar was vividly paralleled in the Old Testament of Scripture: "In the daytime the cloud of the Lord was seen over the Dwelling; whereas at night, fire was seen in the cloud by the WHOLE house of Israel in ALL the stages of their journey." (Exodus 40:38) Once God was distantly visible to His people in a Pillar of Cloud; now He (the God whose actions are NEVER regressive) is intimately present to us in His "Pillar and Bulwark of truth", which is His Church. There is nothing "metaphorical" about this, just as there was nothing metaphorical about the visible fire of God's presence among the Israelites. Now He is here in Person, accompanying us and sustaining us, not with the old manna (which our fathers ate and died), but with the true Bread of Life - His own eucharistic Flesh and Blood. God's inanimate temple of Old Testament times has passed away. Now, all who are temples of His living Presence "will never die".
Through the ministry of His Church, "lifted up" on her altars, our ETERNAL High Priest-Victim continues His TIME TRANSCENDANT SACRIFICE of Calvary (the only acceptable, propitiatory and ONGOING oblation to His Father). Thereby He "draws all men" away from the darkness and death of sin, unto (actually, INTO) Himself. And through Himself, into the very heart of the eternal Godhead. Quite literally. For He is TRUTH Himself, Who invites all men to abide IN Him. And it is He, LIFE personified, Who has personally established this most Glorious WAY for man to enter into eternal life.
What is eternal life? Rather, Who is Eternal Life? Why, it is none other than Jesus Christ the Lord, Son of God, now Son of Man, Who, made Flesh for us, declares, "I am the Life" and then warns most plainly, "Unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood, you have no life (ME) in you!" For it is only by being subsumed eucharistically INTO the Son that mere human flesh can "come to" the Father - Who is (otherwise impenetrable) Divine Spirit.
Thus the Holy Eucharist is the Source, Centre and Summit of the authentic Christian life. The Life of God IN man, and the life of man IN God.
******** GOD = WORD = FLESH = LIFE ********
"In the beginning was the WORD, and the Word was with God, and the Word was GOD." (John 1:1)
"And the Word became FLESH and made his DWELLING among us." (John 1:14)
"... my flesh is TRUE FOOD, and my blood is TRUE DRINK. Whoever EATS MY FLESH and DRINKS MY BLOOD remains IN me and I IN him." (John 6: 55-56)
"No one comes to the Father except THROUGH me." (John 14:6)
******************************
"Faithful to Christ's command to "do this in memory of me" (Lk 22:19), the Church in every time and place celebrates the Eucharist until the Lord returns in glory, rejoicing in His sacramental presence and drawing upon the power of His saving sacrifice for the redemption of the world.
The Eucharistic sacrifice of the Body and Blood of Christ embraces the mystery of our Lord's continuing Passion in the members of his Mystical Body, the Church in every age.
Our Eternal High Priest daily unites our own sacrifices, our own sufferings, our own needs, hopes and aspirations, to the infinite merits of His sacrifice.
Through Him, with Him, and in Him, we lift up our own bodies as a sacrifice holy and acceptable to God (cf. Rom 12:1). In this sense we are caught up in His eternal oblation, completing, as Saint Paul says, in our flesh what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of His body, the Church (cf. Col 1:24).
In the life of the Church, in her trials and tribulations, Christ continues, in the stark phrase of Pascal (Pensées, 553, éd. Brunschvicg) to be in agony until the end of the world."
- Pope Benedict XVI
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