tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291232.post8943820870133919941..comments2024-03-24T05:54:23.612-05:00Comments on Weedon's Blog: St. Ignatius of AntiochWilliam Weedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01383850332591975790noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291232.post-31868414140032873582009-10-19T20:36:52.636-05:002009-10-19T20:36:52.636-05:00Love his letters to the seven churches.Love his letters to the seven churches.Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06484863804749639654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291232.post-11696306716323294722009-10-18T04:33:10.526-05:002009-10-18T04:33:10.526-05:00St Ignatius described the universality of the chur...St Ignatius described the universality of the church in terms of how it can be found locally, which suggests maybe he was using katholikos more in the sense of total, complete, or entire, than in our sense of universal. Where the bishop is, there should the people be, as where Christ is, there is the whole church.<br /><br />He is writing in the context of those who do not believe that the Eucharist is truly the body of Christ. Why is this never mentioned? Because it would be uncomfortable, seeing that most "Christian" bodies do not think the Eucharist is literally his body and blood?<br /><br />At least the Docetists of his time held that the Eucharist was not the body and blood of the Lord in consequence of their belief that the body and blood in which he walked around was not really a body and blood either.<br /><br />Our modern Eucharist deniers don't have that excuse. They're all for a literal understanding of the NT except, as Bishop Sheen used to say, for eight words: This is My Body, This is My Blood. Which is also why a certain German reformer would say he would rather drink the blood of Christ with the pope than wine with Zwingli.<br /><br />Yet in a few days our modern Eucharist deniers will celebrate Reformation Day on the day, or following modern revisionism, the Sunday before it, of the posting of the 95 theses by a man who would write that if we really understood the literal pledge of Christ's body and blood in the mass we would about pass out for joy at such a Saviour!<br /><br />Which fits with more modern revisionism: for roughly a thousand years until Vatican II, the feast of St Ignatius in the West was 1 February, unless you're in the East in which case it's 20 December. Was Vatican II held in Rome or St Louis? We do not follow their corruption of "bishop", "catholic" and "Eucharist" but follow their late corruption of the calendar and lectionary?<br /><br />Thought I read something about we keep many things leading to good order in the church such as the order of Scripture readings and the holy days, understanding that such things do not justify and may be omitted with no offence to the Gospel which does not command them -- not wait until Rome changes stuff then jump on it. (AC26)Past Elderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10541968132598367551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291232.post-26564675149361387852009-10-18T04:25:52.265-05:002009-10-18T04:25:52.265-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Past Elderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10541968132598367551noreply@blogger.com