Striking, is it not, that the Larger Catechism twice speaks of the Eucharist as daily fare?
"Therefore, the Sacrament is given as a daily pasture and sustenance, that faith may refresh and strengthen itself so that it will not fall back in such a battle, but become ever stronger and stronger." LC V:24
"Then people will not let such a great treasure - daily administered and distributed among Christians - pass by unnoticed. So those who want to be Christians may prepare and receive this praise-worthy Sacrament often." LC V:39
I used to know where I could go on a daily basis for the sacrament from a certain Lutheran pastor in Detroit.
ReplyDeleteI wish someone in these parts would take up the practice.
Jon, you are not so unknown! Is that really you blogging again? I'd be delighted if it were. Or is it Erich. Or is Tim. Which one of you beggars is back at it?
ReplyDeleteI am a blogger known only to my confessor and my ISP.
ReplyDeleteI am the masked luchadore of the lutheran blogosphere - not unlike Homer Simpson when he logged onto the internet and became the mysterious Mr. X. You know what happend to him don't you? He and his family were exiled to an deserted island because he knew too much.
I wish to avoid this fate.
To answer your question and if it does answer your question, please don't broadcast it - I am a crypto fan of EWTN.
TUL
Well I can't pass this up, having just been outed by Pastor McCain right on this blog. Past Elder, Terry Maher of Omaha NE. And big Beggars All fan! And apparently not the only Lutheran to know about the tradition of the luchadores either.
ReplyDeleteAnd they say there is no God!
OK guys, I watch a little EWTN too but apparently have a different reaction. Having swum the Tiber in the out direction, I find it pathetic. I hope you do not think you are watching anything authentially Roman Catholic. What you are seeing is Vatican II Catholicism when the actual documents rather than the "spirit" of Vatican II are followed, but either way you have not the Roman Catholic Faith but something else in its place. I think those poor deluded souls think that somehow using Latin and playing dress up makes this Catholic, whereas they equally with the liturgically free wheeling parish led by a priest who spends his spare time laying down in front of military bases are expressions of a novus ordo and not just missae that is a rejection of the historic faith of Rome deliberately and Christian only by accident. These people are the lost of the lost, clinging blindly to a superficial resemblance to what they think they continue, but in fact reject.
Terry, welcome to the freedom that comes when you eschew anonymity. No more hiding. No more games. Congrats.
ReplyDeleteThe only thing I have against you is that I really never know what you really think. You are too vague.
: )
Well Pastor McCain, it appears you're one and one in the anonymous Lutheran blogger game. Just when Past Elder is revealed comes The Unknown Lutheran -- with whom, if I am not mistaken, I share a former synod. I have set up a blog my self with this host under my screen name, but so far ranting on existing blogs takes all my blogging time. Maybe I'll change into Der vergangener Vorsteher. Speaking of one and one, don't know if you're a Cards fan, but as a member of Red Sox Nation living in the Diaspora may I say what a pure pleasure it was a few Series ago to play such an excellent top notch opponent! Especially on the heels of the bleeding Yankees -- we of the Nation are no strangers to abominations in Yankee Stadium, where the only good thing that ever happens is when they lose.
ReplyDeleteNow time to relax with a little EWTN!
Checking out Fr. Groeschel right now ---
ReplyDeleteJust wait until I start my own confessional Lutheran cable channel.
It isn't as much of joke as one would think!
oooooooh! Unknown. I want to be one of the Lutheran pastors who gets to celebrate every day and preach!!!! You know where to reach me. :)
ReplyDeleteMan, this is the last time I post a message to PTM here before checking out Cyberbretheren for the day! Check it out -- he gets the red hat, as they say. Well, technically, it could happen, as despite historical precedent and development of cardinals, there could be (and have been) lay cardinals -- from the RC view Lutheran pastors, not being priests, are laymen.
ReplyDeleteTUL, your church looks exactly like my old WELS church! Wild. Just let me know when the channel is up and running and I'll lobby Cox to carry it here.
What a day -- haec dies indeed -- first a Lutheran red hat, now our own Mother Angelica! Was noch?