"We believe that Jesus Christ is really, truly, and substantially present in His Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity, on our altars: under the appearance of bread. How do we know it? Our Lord told us, “This is My Body." No one ever doubted these words of our Lord until the year 1088, and then it was later retracted. The next denial came four centuries later. It is therefore relatively late in Christian history that mankind has been bold enough to say that our Lord did not mean what He said about the Eucharist, or Hell, or divorce. If Christianity just meant a memory of Christ, how unsatisfying it would be! If Christ means no more to our lives than the example of his life twenty centuries ago, then it is difficult to see how He was God, and how He differed from man. If He had not power to extend his His life, His influence, His grace, His very Body and Blood through time to its very end, then He is under the same limitations as every man. Life demands more than a souvenir to sustain it, and if Christ is the very life of Christians, then He must be more than just a memory." - Fulton J. Sheen
Posted on: Fri, 05 Jul 2013 04:03:50 +0000
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