"As we sit at his feet," says Janferie Sefo Kelekolio, "especially when we are singing at mercy parish as our choir sit in front of the Tabernacle ... He is behind us in front of us and beside us."
The misunderstanding of the Doctrine of the Real Presence in so pervasive, due to an almost total lack of catechesis on the subject in the Church of Nice, that it warrants further discussion, to which Janferie Sefo Kelekolio makes a valuable contribution.
"We are in his Tabernacle," continues Janferie, "and even more we are a temple of the Holy spirit x".
I say:
Sitting
at the feet of Jesus in the tabernacle is beautiful, but because He is Really
Present we must face Him, just as we would face Queen Elizabeth, not sit with
our backs to her.
In the Blessed Sacrament Jesus is either behind us, or in
front of us, or beside us, just as the Queen would be in one place or another, not several at once. In the Blessed
Sacrament, Jesus is as Real as the Queen. We are 'in his Tabernacle' and we are 'a
temple of the Holy spirit', but that's talking about God's spiritual presence,
not his Real Presence in the Blessed Sacrament.
Janferie Sefo Kelekolio adds:
Julia du Fresne I understand what your saying definitely x thankyou for another way of looking at things.
When I take Holy communion I become the Tabernacle, I become overwhelmed with the Holy spirit , but I'm still learning and growing.... We are made Holy and right thru the blood and body of Christ Jesus xx blessings and thank you.
Roseanne Sheridan says:
His Real Presence,
Julia, is not only in the consecrated bread and wine. If it were, then what
would be the point of the Resurrection? The Eucharistic Presence of Jesus
Risen, celebrated in the Mass, transforms all of Creation from death into life.
So the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist, in Holy Communion, is present
in uniting all the people in the life of Christ in His Resurrection,
Right from the beginning of time to the end, no one and nothing is left out, since all were created in Jesus, the Word, so all are raised to life in, though and with Him. Jesus is therefore really present in Word and Sacrament,in the people, including the Priest and in all Creation, The bread and wine of the Mass go back to the Passover grace, the "Thanksgiving." we celebrate our lives being saved in Christ, the Life. The old and new Covenants become one in Christ. The Blood of the Lamb, goes right back to Abel, the wheat grain in the bread, to Cain.
So it is that the redemption of the Resurrection overturns death from not only that point onward, but right back in time to the beginning. So the Eucharist is to reveal to us, the real Presence of Christ Jesus in all of Creation. He as the Life from the beginning and the Resurrection from the dead.So all is in Him, As Church, as a consecrated people, we are transformed into the mystical Body of Christ,,as the Temple, the Tabernacle of God.
As St Theresa said "Christ has no body now but yours." Holy Communion unites all together in Christ. We receive and are received into Him.Transformed and transcended. The life we live is Christ Jesus. We become one in life together with Him.The Bride and the Bridegroom, one life. It is in His Life that we are united with the Father in the Spirit, in being within the Real Presence of God..
Right from the beginning of time to the end, no one and nothing is left out, since all were created in Jesus, the Word, so all are raised to life in, though and with Him. Jesus is therefore really present in Word and Sacrament,in the people, including the Priest and in all Creation, The bread and wine of the Mass go back to the Passover grace, the "Thanksgiving." we celebrate our lives being saved in Christ, the Life. The old and new Covenants become one in Christ. The Blood of the Lamb, goes right back to Abel, the wheat grain in the bread, to Cain.
So it is that the redemption of the Resurrection overturns death from not only that point onward, but right back in time to the beginning. So the Eucharist is to reveal to us, the real Presence of Christ Jesus in all of Creation. He as the Life from the beginning and the Resurrection from the dead.So all is in Him, As Church, as a consecrated people, we are transformed into the mystical Body of Christ,,as the Temple, the Tabernacle of God.
As St Theresa said "Christ has no body now but yours." Holy Communion unites all together in Christ. We receive and are received into Him.Transformed and transcended. The life we live is Christ Jesus. We become one in life together with Him.The Bride and the Bridegroom, one life. It is in His Life that we are united with the Father in the Spirit, in being within the Real Presence of God..
I say:
At the risk of boring people, I have to repeat myself: Jesus Christ is Really Present, physically present, on earth only in the consecrated Bread and Wine. He is not physically 'present in uniting all the people'. He is not physically present in ''The Priest and in all Creation'.
As a lay Carmelite I can assure you that St Teresa did not, and could not, say such a thing as 'Christ has no body now but yours'. As a Doctor of the Church she could not and would not have contradicted Church doctrine.
It was in fact a Methodist minister, Mark Guy Pearse who spoke those words in a sermon in 1888.
And that makes sense, because "Christ has no body now but yours" is a thoroughly Protestant statement of Protestant disbelief in Christ's own proclamation of the doctrine of the Eucharist.
Methinks Roseanne Sheridan is a woman religious.
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