Tuesday, October 12, 2010

"If the Catholic Church is not a lie from the devil,

"if the Eucharist is not a charade,

"then the actions of the priest spring from a being who has been transformed into Christ the Priest."




Snippets from the commentary of Fr. Antonio Anderson, S.O.L.T., STD. The Homiletic & Pastoral Review -- October 2010 tells us that Fr. Anderson "is a pastor of 90,000 Christians on the destitute outskirts of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. He is a missionary priest belonging to the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity..."

Father's actual title is: Pig, plumber, or portrait? Three ontologies of priesthood.


"The priest is a second God - man, wrote the late auxiliary bishop of Cologne, Wilhem Stockums.

"Blasphemy at first sight, but if orthodox theology teaches that only the blood of Christ atones for our sins and the priest is the one who pronounces the words of consecration, then the priest has a power that only God can have...

"If the Catholic Church is not a lie from the devil, if the Eucharist is not a charade, then the actions of the priest spring from a being who has been transformed into Christ the Priest..."

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