Zb.Zak- Thoughts 23/26 - To strengthen faith

The celebration of God's Body shows that Catholics inactive have religion in the real presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament in Poland. From the very beginning the Church expressed its religion in the real presence of the Lord Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, and so made the Eucharist the central center of the worship of the fresh Covenant. The fee, the wheat bread, after the priest has spoken the words of transfiguration, the power of the Holy Spirit becomes the Body of the Lord Jesus, and the wine his Blood. The substance of bread (toll) passes into the substance of the Lord's Body, and the substance of wine passes into the substance of the Lord's Blood. Christ himself entrusted the priests with specified authority. The Lord Jesus is present in the Eucharist under all visible part of the consecrated Host. Therefore, with specified care the priest considers that the smallest crumbs should be collected into the cup, rinsed with wine and eaten. At the same time, Jesus ’ promise of Holy Communion pointed to its primary purpose: everlasting life. "He who eats my body and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I shall rise him up in the last day." So Christ promises 2 crucial gifts: the eternal salvation of the soul and the glory of the resurrected bodies. Holy communion gives us the right to heaven and is simply a pledge of immortality to our bodies as well.

Since Pope Urban VI, the celebration of God's Body has been 1 of the main holidays of the liturgical year of the Church (1389). The first mention of the procession on this vacation is from Cologne from 1277. Since the 15th century Germany has adopted the customized of procession to 4 altars. Holy Masses were introduced at the Holy Sacrament in the 15th century. For the first time we meet with the procession of God's Body in Poland in the 14th century in Płock and Wrocław. Since the 16th century, the tradition of singing the Gospel at 4 altars has been introduced.

Despite signs of confusion in the Church, there is inactive a surviving religion in Poland, although there are signs of modernism that question the foundations of faith.

P. Lisicki in “Exile Melchizedek” makes specified a diagnosis:

“The essence of the present illness of the Church is the desacralization. And God’s service requires an nonsubjective and real sacrifice made by 1 who is decently called to do so. Not me, but the priest. The altar became a table, a priest chairman, a mass meeting, at best a feast, a memory of the feast. There's no word about the victim at all.

The first large act of breaking up with the liturgical tradition was done by the improvement of Marcin Luther, John Calvin and the another reformers. They all agreed that an authoritative priesthood specified as the thought of a sacrificial Mass, an altar, propitiation are inventions, errors, human imaginations. They all thought that in fact these were concepts introduced to the Church by the popes. This way of reasoning took over Protestant communities."

Does the desire to become like Protestants and take into account their reasoning weaken religion among the faithful Catholic Church?

"Even during the earliest Christian period of Basilica the Great, 1 of the east fathers of the Church, taught that the liturgy was a revelation, as the Scriptures themselves, and must never interfere with it.

The changes made after the Second Vatican Council weakened the reception of Mass as a sacrifice. This led to weakness and blurry identity of the priesthood. This, with an equally inevitable consequence, leads to weakening and blurring of the sacrilege. Each fresh generation brought up at a fresh mass is mostly more secularized than the erstwhile one. The Church tries to defend itself against this utilizing various atraps, the most popular of which is most likely the acquisition of charismatic practices from Pentecostal movements and fresh evangelical Christians."

According to Jean Guitton: “ Paul VI’s intention on Mass was to improvement the Catholic liturgy as powerfully as possible, as closely as possible to the Protestant liturgy, to the Protestant Lord’s Supper.

"The canon of the Mass was established in Rome and has evolved since the apostolic times. The first historically certain evidence of the alleged Roman canon comes from the letter of Saint Ambroz, although the text is surely earlier. It mentions the names of the martyr popes of the first centuries – the last name, Kaliksta, dates from the mid-third century after Chron. Later the Roman liturgy was codified by Saint Gregory the Great, and since then in specified a form, shaped the religion of the West. The Roman liturgy thus emerges from the early period of the Fathers, the final form gains in the sixth century after Christ. Thus the liturgy held according to the customs of Rome revived not only religion and piety, but besides the culture of many nations." Then this Roman liturgy, extended for only any prayers, was confirmed and accepted again by Saint Pope Pius V, and in this form, practically unchanged, reached 1962.

By accepting the fresh Protestant knowing of the Mass, the vital connection of the advanced Priest Christ and advanced Priest Melchizedek to the life of the Church as the Mystical Body of Christ is being undermined. How can Christ be a priest forever, according to Melchizedek's order, if Mass ceases to be a clear sacrifice by a priest? A priest reduced to an activist, to an activist, does not encourage young people to take on specified a role. The longing for a priest--the 1 guarding the holy things, distinguishes what is sacred from what is worldly, makes a propitiatory sacrifice, and is simply a mediator between the people and God, like Christ, these are the expectations of the faithful."

May contributions from the small Eucharistic Congress; in peculiar Archbishop M. Jędraszewski (10 to 58 mins on the recording) , Fr Prof. R. Skrzypczak (1h 02 to 1h 36 min) and Fr. J. Strumiłowski (1h 37 to 2h 13 min): https://www.youtube.com/embed/b-FR_UFv5a4 They build our faith.

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