Since Christ united Himself with us so deeply and so closely that He proffers to us His body to eat and His blood to drink, we also should bind and unite ourselves to Him through faith and love. What is more closely related to the Lord Christ than His body and blood which He assumed into His eternal Person? Once again, what comes closer to us than the above as we eat and drink it? What comes closer to us than that which enters into us and is united with the substance of our nature?—Johann Gerhard,
Schola Pietatis I:106
To be a priest of the Most High God is the highest honor and blessedness in which a created being can participate... The main duty of a priest is to sacrifice... But how can a Christian sacrifice himself? He does this when by the power of the Holy Spirit, he daily and even hourly, kills everything evil that is in him, and lays at God’s feet everything he has that is good.—C. F. W. Walther, God Grant It!, pp. 123, 124.
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Pastor, I apologize for this inconvenient way of asking my question.
I have been reading through past works of A.C. Piepkorn recently. I have been interested in finding his article, "The Moment at Which the Sacramental Union Begins." In a now long past forum on Gottesdienst, I saw you had brought this article up.
Do you know how it would be possible for me to access this article? I might be using my resources poorly, but I had no luck on Concordia Theological Seminary's resource page. Would the article be found in a book of his, perhaps?
Pax Christi,
Vicar Heinze
Hi, Ian! Thanks for joining the conversation today with our English and Irish bros! The article is included in *The Church: Selected Writings of Arthur Carl Piepkorn* which you can pick up right here:
http://alpb.org/books/arthur-carl-piepkorn-book-package/
Wonderful! Thank you very much!
Also, thank you dearly for the time you spent answering questions today. What a great joy it was to gather (even online) with so many brothers and sisters of the Body of Christ from around the world. That was incredible to see.
Thank you for your time, your passion, and most importantly your commitment to the truths of Scripture!
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