Bruce Michael
Well-Known Member
Hi All,
I've noticed that people who oppose a sacramental life, sometimes know nothing about it.
With the Christening it is a once in a lifetime event, which in the baby, aids incarnation. There are other healthful blessings which flow as well.
Central to sacramental life is the Communion. It is a pity that many in the Church have lost any understanding of it.
I heard recently that in Britain more people attend mosques on Friday than Church on Sunday. As the saying goes "if it ain't broke don't fix it"-in this case something does need fixing.
What are the benefits of Communion over such practices as meditation, prayer or other exercises?
I've noticed that people who oppose a sacramental life, sometimes know nothing about it.
With the Christening it is a once in a lifetime event, which in the baby, aids incarnation. There are other healthful blessings which flow as well.
Central to sacramental life is the Communion. It is a pity that many in the Church have lost any understanding of it.
I heard recently that in Britain more people attend mosques on Friday than Church on Sunday. As the saying goes "if it ain't broke don't fix it"-in this case something does need fixing.
What are the benefits of Communion over such practices as meditation, prayer or other exercises?
- There is the aspect of the community gathering- "When two or more are gathered together in my Name..." By reanimating deep memory the Communion strengthens community, by returning us to the state where we were fed by the One Mother.
- The Body and Blood of Christ works in us as a powerful medicine to our wanting soul. This is because, through the Grace of transubstantiation, the water, which is the representative Divine Ego, is invited to become Christ’s blood, “to enter His Will with that of our Father’s (and work in us accordingly)”.
- “Sin, suffering and illness is abated by the amalgamation of the two perfect wills occurring in Man – that the Heavens are compliant with the Earth and vice-versa.”
- “Christ is invited to enter now into it (into the water) (a baptism of consciousness) the water is then fed to the bread (imbuing soul into the world) and the primeval consciousness gives way to the new.”
- Ritual builds future worlds.