{"id":44043,"date":"2014-11-25T07:00:32","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T14:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=44043"},"modified":"2015-02-04T08:52:17","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T15:52:17","slug":"making-present-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2014\/11\/25\/making-present-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Apology: Making present again?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to take a break from my &#8220;Quick Apology&#8221; series concerning Mary and Saintly Intercession. Today&#8217;s &#8220;Quick Apology&#8221; will be a very brief and concern the Eucharistic liturgy&#8230;<\/p>\n<h2>Objection<\/h2>\n<p>The Catholic Church teaches that, in the Eucharist, the sacrifice of Calvary is made present again. In response to this, some Protestants object in this way:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>&#8220;How can you say the sacrifice of calvary is made present again? The Epistle to the Hebrews says that His sacrifice was once for all. He&#8217;s no longer bleeding&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Obviously, there is a lot that could be said in response to this, but how might we respond briefly?<\/p>\n<h2>Response<\/h2>\n<p>In reply to this objection, sometimes I challenge Evangelicals over the very language they use in talking about salvation. Don&#8217;t they often talk about <span style=\"color: #000000\"><em>&#8220;being washed in the blood&#8221;<\/em><\/span>, upon accepting Christ as their personal Lord and saviour? However, given the objection they raised above, isn&#8217;t there a problem?\u00a0Hasn&#8217;t Jesus stopped bleeding? Wasn&#8217;t His sacrifice 2,000 years ago?<\/p>\n<p>When Evangelicals talk about <em><span style=\"color: #000000\">&#8220;being washed in the blood&#8221;<\/span><\/em>, they&#8217;re talking about the the grace of the cross being applied to their souls in time in a real, substantial way. Given this, is the idea of the Eucharist being a participation in Calvary really that alien?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-50014 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/The-Passion.png\" alt=\"The Passion\" width=\"600\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/The-Passion.png 600w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/The-Passion-300x124.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to take a break from my &#8220;Quick Apology&#8221; series concerning Mary and Saintly Intercession. Today&#8217;s &#8220;Quick Apology&#8221; will be a very brief and concern the Eucharistic liturgy&#8230; Objection The Catholic Church teaches that, in the Eucharist, the sacrifice of Calvary is made present again. In response to this, some Protestants object in this way: &#8220;How can you say<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[748,276,269,2969,2793,348],"class_list":["post-44043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faith","tag-blood","tag-catholic","tag-eucharist","tag-featured","tag-memorial","tag-protestant"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/consecration.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44043"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50015,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44043\/revisions\/50015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}