Friday Frivolity: Rappin’ for Jesus
So bad…so, so bad…and more than a little racist… Why do Christians try so hard to be cool?
The article Rappin’ for Jesus first appeared on RestlessPilgrim.net
Day: May 24, 2013
Our Traditional Family Meal
On Thursday I wrote a little bit about John 6 and the Eucharist in response to a conversation I had with Gerry, a non-Catholic. Today I would to take a very brief tour of the belief in the Eucharist in Early Church.
The problem with saying that Jesus is only symbolically present in the Eucharist is that apparently nobody told this to the Early Church. Below are a collection of quotations from Christian documents of the 1st and 2nd Century. These demonstrate without a doubt that Christians have, from the earliest times, understood the Eucharist to be a sacrifice performed by priests in which Jesus Christ is truly present: