The May 2010 Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Newsletter can now be found at: http://www.euthanasiaprevention.on.ca/Newsletters/Newsletter108(May2010)(RGB).pdf Bill C-384 was soundly defeated by a vote of 228 to 59. Check how the Members of Parliament voted at: http://www.euthanasiaprevention.on.ca/HowTheyVoted.pdf On June 5, 2010, we are co-hosting the US/Canda Push-Back Seminar at the Radisson Gateway Hotel at the Seattle/Tacoma Airport. The overwhelming defeat of Bill C-384 proved that we can Push-Back the euthanasia lobby in the US and Canada and convince people that euthanasia and assisted suicide are a dangerous public policy. Register for the Seminar at: http://www.euthanasiaprevention.on.ca/2010SeminarFlyer(RGB)(LetterFormat).pdf The Schindler family are being attacked by a Florida television station and Michael Schiavo. The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition is standing in solidarity with the Schindler family. My blog comments: http://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2010/05/att...
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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