In the Eucharist we don’t re-crucify Christ, but we experience, mystically, that one sacrifice of Jesus Christ, communicated to us through the Eucharist. This is why, Karen, 1 Corinthians chapter 15–and by the way, Karen, I’m going to offer you something. If you don’t mind, Kare...
Epiclesis, (Greek: “invocation”), in the Christian eucharistic prayer (anaphora),the special invocation of the Holy Spirit; in most Eastern Christian liturgies it follows the words of institution—the words used, according to the New Testament, by Jesus himself at the Last Supper—“This i...
No More Scapegoats: How Jesus Put an End to SacrificeCHRISTIANS ARE often urged to get over their exclusive focus on Christ's death. There have been...Heim, S. Mark
And ‘HOW did this Jesus, this CHRIST, come to our World, to our Human Race in order TO SAVE it from Divine condemnation and death?’ By being conceived in the womb of a WOMAN by the Divine Power of God the Holy Spirit. If St. John Chrysostom of the EASTERN Church and find it in...
Joh 12:36While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be thechildren of light. These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them. 1Th 5:5Ye are all thechildren of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. ...
people a temporary covering for their sins. Once Jesus had come to shed His own blood on the cross, there was no more need for any more animal sacrifices. His death on the cross had completed and fulfilled what His Father had started in the Old Testament with the sacrifice of these ...
In the How to Study the Bible podcast, Nicole Unice brings life back to reading the Bible through her Alive Method of Bible study.
Why did Jesus have to die? — The punishment for sin is death.God created earth and man perfect. But when Adam and Eve disobeyed God’s comman ELYSIUM H, NG, FA [TEST] In the year 2154, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy, who live on a pristine man-made space station...
looking back. We had access to, and yielded to, His mind and lived in complete harmony without care or worry about tomorrow for we were the children of God. This is where we began and this is where we will end up, by the grace of God and through the sacrifice of His Son, Jesus ...
And if all that were not enough, he said he came to serve and sacrifice: “For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45). There are many ways to contemplate the life-changing reality of the coming ...