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Knights Lex Orandi
Lex orandi lex credendi. The rule of praying is the rule of believing. This is an ancient Latin maxim attributed to St. Prosper of Aquitaine that speaks to the intrinsic linkage between how we worship and what we believe. It’s another way of stressing the importance of orthodoxy. Orthodoxy is the English version of a… Continue reading
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What is Mass For?
Most of you have used a hammer. If you think about a hammer, you realize that the purpose of a hammer is to reach an outcome through the hammer. You don’t just have a hammer; the hammer is for something. The hammer is for nails being driven into wood. Today, St. Paul’s letter to the… Continue reading
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Jewish Roots of the Mass Week Two
Implications for the Last Supper Similar Different You Have to Eat the Lamb The manna of the Messiah The manna in the Tabernacle No more manna after crossing the Jordan Manna Mysteries The bread of the world to come The bread from the beginning of creation The eternal bread in the Heavenly Temple The bread… Continue reading
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The Jewish Roots of the Mass
Jesus a Jewish Man Thoroughly Jewish What Were They Waiting For? A New Promised Land As a wandering people Even while in the Promised Land of Canaan Jesus and the New Exodus Josephus, the Jewish Roman historian attests to widespread expectation; fakes: Theudas Jesus does Exodus things like a New Moses New covenant established in… Continue reading
Bound in Love 