Well, it's been a hell of a ride, laying rubber all over the road for the past decade. But it's time to call it a day and park the Rogue in the garage. Effective today, I am shutting down my blog to focus my attention on other endeavours. My thanks to the more than 2.7 million people who regularly joined me on these sojourns through news stories over the years that dealt with the places with issues of religion and faith intersecting with public affairs. May God bless you with a continuing desire to learn about and help disseminate the issues of faith throughout the public square. Happy trails in your continuing travels! Fr. Tim Moyle, p.p. Diocese of Pembroke
Reflections from the pastoral ministry of an Evangelical Catholic Priest.
"We use the words “really, truly, and substantially” to describe Christ’s presence in the Holy Eucharist in order to distinguish Our Lord’s teaching from that of mere men who falsely teach that the Holy Eucharist is only a sign or figure of Christ, or that He is present only by His power." Thomas Aquinas used the word "substantially" because,through Aristotle's metaphysics,Aquinas understood how God could be "really and truly" present in the bread and the wine.In other words he was not using the term "substantially" to differentiate one claim about God from another...he and Aristotle used this term to denote being in it's mode as "substance"(e.g. primary substance as the hylomorphic compound of form and matter) rather than being in its mode as attribute,quality or "accident," as the philosophers called it. Every part of the bread and wine retains it's attribute as such and God's substantial presence remains only for as long as the appearance of the bread and wine remain.In a world so predominantly prepared to find it's sought after good on the surface of reality it should be no wonder that anything not tangible can be of no value or importance.I believe though that if we commit ourselves to opening up to the real presence of truth and beauty in others who may appear ugly and false,we both get to experience that which transcends our comprehension.
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