I embrace Catholic doctrine although I'm member of Lutheran Church. There's no Catholic Church in my hometown, just tiny chapel that's open occasionally. Remember me in prayers, thank you.
I have seen the DVD of the same title. It was as though I had been ushered into a completely new understanding of and appreciation for my religion. All of it. And I am ordering this series so that I can pause to reflect and take notes, and so that I can fix all the details in my my mind, and heart, and soul, and so that I can see the transcript itself since Dr. Pitre's talk is not printed in its entirety on the outlines. If you are passing this by because you have already seen the DVD, I urge you to try the first free one. Dr. Pitre has said that he is including new material as well.
I had the opportunity to hear Dr. Pitre give a talk about this subject a few weeks ago at my parish. It was so fascinating. I'm really looking forward to his video series.
I’m looking forward to that. I expected to learn all of that in RCIA, and was sorely disappointed because I got sharing of feelings and opinions instead. (And I was forced to endure THREE years of that, even though unbaptized catechumens only need two years.)
Dear Dr. Pitre! The Mass is worthy of exploration in light of the Bible. Please discuss what is crucial yet still unnoticed. Namely, just as the Jews about the Passover, so we about the Mass believe that this liturgy is a time machine that truly (albeit in a way that is inaccessible to the senses) takes us to an Event that took place once in the history of the world. The Mass takes us to Jesus being in the Upper Room so that there, together with Him and the Apostles, we truly (not imaginatively) participate in His celebration. Moreover, it is essential that within this celebration, Jesus, in its third part (the consecration and the administration of Holy Communion), offers the anamnesis sacrifice, i.e., the sacrifice before the battle - before that battle which Jesus is to take up against the devil immediately after the end of this celebration when He will leave the Cenacle to go to Gethsemane, and from there through the Roman and Jewish courts to Golgotha, from which He will descend into the Abyss to defeat there its hitherto ruler, the devil. This sacrifice is called anamnesis for the reason that it is a request to God to remember the donor soon when he will be on the battlefield - in response to this sacrifice, God the Father, remembering the donor Jesus, will grant him victory in the Abyss over the devil, bringing him out of the Abyss in the act of Resurrection. Jesus’ historic return to the Upper Room after three days is something to which we have access just as we have access to His Dying in Golgotha. Namely, when we abide in prayer after the celebration, we participate in this way of Jesus, which He undertakes after the celebration, going to Gethsemane, Golgotha, Abyss, and finally returning to the Upper Room. It is this return as the fruit of the anamnesis sacrifice on which St. Paul wrote in 1Cor 11:23-26, with the phrase 11:26, due to the subjunctive mode of the word ἔλθῃ, referring not to the Lord’s return to the Last Judgment, but to the Lord’s return to the community that waited for Him, abiding in prayer after the celebration. ὁσάκις γὰρ ἐὰν ἐσθίητε τὸν ἄρτον τοῦτον καὶ τὸ ποτήριον πίνητε, τὸν θάνατον τοῦ κυρίου καταγγέλλετε ἄχρι οὗ ἔλθῃ. The Lord’s return is described from chapter 12 onward - Jesus comes and gives the Holy Spirit, whose presence is made evident in the gifts He gives, conversions, and prophetic inspirations. One will not understand the Mass correctly if he does not see that: - Jesus offers the anamnesis sacrifice in the Upper Room of Himself, dying on Golgotha, and therefore dying in the future in relation to the moment of offering this anamnesis sacrifice in the Upper Room. - It is essential to see the two offerings that Jesus makes: On Golgotha, He offers for our sins. In the Upper Room, He offers an anamnesis sacrifice for Himself - for His victory and return to the Upper Room. - The means of making the Sacrifice on Golgotha is Jesus’ acceptance of death. - The means of making the Sacrifice of anamnesis is to consume and digest the Bread and Wine (i.e., the sacramental species under which He Himself is hidden in the sacrificial state of dying on Golgotha). Jesus commanded the Apostles and all of us, present actually in the Upper Room, to burn (by digesting) this anamnesis sacrifice so that it would become a sacrifice offered ( analogously as burning of the sacrificial animal makes it a sacrifice offered), a sacrifice for the victory and return of Jesus. I have been publishing on this topic for many years. I publish translations in English on Academia.edu. See for example: www.academia.edu/44100969/Christ_s_anamnesis_as_the_sacrifice_offered_before_His_fight_against_the_devil Best regards! Dr. Wojciech Kosek www.adoracja.bielsko.opoka.org.pl/Kosek_mainWeb_UK.html
I need this. Theres so many Christian focused videos and teachings, and as a Catholic, they push against idolatry, Mother Mary, - then contradict themselves, by their belief in MIriam, which really snapped me back into Catholicism. We need more Catholic teachings, videos and media, to help keep this sacred scripture alive.
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Love you but I can’t afford your $125/yr pay channel. Sorry Brad but you keep removing your content from free RU-vid so what good is this advertisement.
Will this series include the Eastern Liturgy, that is, how the development between the Byzantine vs Roman liturgy occurred? I like the Byzantine liturgy too, including the beautiful chants.
The New Catholic Encyclopedia admits that “the Mass of today differs greatly from the very simple ceremony followed by Christ and his apostles.” Jesus did not specifically state how often the Memorial of his death was to be kept. However, he instituted it on the date of the Jewish Passover, which was replaced among his disciples by the Memorial of Christ’s death. The Passover was an ANNUAL EVENT, celebrated on Nisan 14. Ask yourself: Do you celebrate a wedding anniversary every day or weekly? Are National holidays like Memorial Day or Labor Day celebrated weekly?
The Mass is a Memorial Sacrifice celebrated everyday. The Eucharist consecrated in the Mass is the Living Presence of The Lord Jesus (JOHN 6; 1 COR 10; 1 COR 11; LUKE 22; MARK 14; MAT 26). We are obligated to attend Mass and observe it on the first day of the week - Sunday, the Lord's Resurrection Day because The Breaking of the Bread was on a Sunday (Lord's Day) ACTS 20:7. Jesus' Sacrifice is Eternal: REV 13:8 And all the dwell upon the earth adored him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb, which was slain from the beginning of the world. REV 5:6 And I saw: and behold in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the ancients, a Lamb standing as it were slain, having seven horns and seven eyes: which are the seven Spirits of God, sent forth into all the earth. 1 PETER 1:20 Foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but manifested in the last times for you, THE LIVING PRESENCE OF JESUS IN THE EUCHARIST: 1 COR 11:24 is the same translation used by Paul - "touto mou estin to soma." The statement is "this is really" my body and blood. Nowhere in Scripture does God ever declare something without making it so. MAT 26:26-28; MARK 14:22,24; LUK 22; 19-20; 1 COR 11:24-25 - Jesus says, this IS my body and blood. Jesus does not say, this is a symbol of my body and blood. 1 COR 11:26-27, Paul also used "bread" and "the body of the Lord" interchangeably in the same sentence. Also, see MAT 3:7;12:34;23:33 for examples were "genneema" means "birth" or "generation." 1 Cor. 11:23 - Paul does not explain what he has actually received directly from Christ, except in the case when he teaches about the Eucharist. Here, Paul emphasizes the importance of the Eucharist by telling us he received directly from Jesus instructions on the Eucharist which is the source and summit of the Christian faith. 1 Cor. 11:27-29 - in these verses, Paul says that eating or drinking in an unworthy manner is the equivalent of profaning (literally, murdering) the body and blood of the Lord. If this is just a symbol, we cannot be guilty of actually profaning (murdering) it. We cannot murder a symbol. Either Paul, the divinely inspired apostle of God, is imposing an unjust penalty, or the Eucharist is the actual body and blood of Christ. 1 Cor. 11:30 - this verse alludes to the consequences of receiving the Eucharist unworthily. Receiving the actual body and blood of Jesus in mortal sin results in actual physical consequences to our bodies. 1 COR 11:27-30 - thus, if we partake of the Eucharist unworthily, we are guilty of literally murdering the body of Christ, and risking physical consequences to our bodies. This is overwhelming evidence for the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. These are unjust penalties if the Eucharist is just a symbol. LUKE 22:19, 1 COR 11:24-25 - Jesus commands the apostles to "do this," that is, offer the Eucharistic sacrifice, in remembrance of Him.
December 6 and yes, roughly around a year, as we'll be releasing one per week. It may go longer if Dr. Pitre wishes to cover certain things at more length. It will be at minimum 52 videos. Thank you!
John 6:63 It's the spirit that quickeneth, the (flesh) profiterh nothing 🚫 the WORDS that I speak unto (you), they are spirit, and they are Life. Think! John 6:68 Then Simon Peter answered Him, ( Lord to whom shall we go??) Thou hast the WORDS of eternal life. 🐝💪📖🚫🐜👁️👼 church
In 6:63 Jesus is speaking of 'the flesh' generally, not referring to His own flesh ! Clearly His flesh avails everything, otherwise He would not have given it up for us on the cross, for it would have been neither necessary nor profitable to do so. You are stating in this thread that Jesus (God in Human Form) profits nothing ? What is the point of coming to earth if His (Jesus) Flesh was worthless ? Is Jesus contradicting Himself, why won't you read the whole context of JOHN 6 not your silly 6:63 argument LOL ! So you mean to say that the Living Word that became Flesh profits nothing ? [ JOHN 1:14 14 And the Word was made FLESH, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. ] -- Jesus did NOT say "My flesh profits nothing" but "The flesh profits nothing". A big difference. Jesus even uses a similar construct in MATTHEW 16:17: "Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jona! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven." --- Flesh and blood ("the flesh") is of no avail in discerning the truths of the faith, or in attaining eternal life. Only by the grace and power of God can we do either. --- John 6:63 even describes the Holy Sacraments of the church. Each Sacrament has an outward sign that conveys spiritual grace. Like Baptism has the outward sign of a triple washing in water and the Eucharist has the outward sign of blessed bread and wine, etc. The unspiritual man, the man of the flesh, sees only ordinary water and only ordinary bread and wine, etc., and does not profit from the Sacraments. The spiritual man, the man of the spirit, believes that with the washing in water comes forgiveness of sins and with the outward appearance of bread and wine comes the substantial presence of the Body and Blood of Christ, etc., and greatly profits (obtains eternal life) from the Sacraments. The words Jesus spoke in his Bread of Life discourse concern the Sacrament of the Eucharist, a spiritual reality, a reality not apparent from its outward sign alone, that will profit those who believe unto eternal life. [ From The Navarre Bible commentary says that these verses (6: 60-71) "...show how the disciples received Jesus' words. In revealing the Eucharistic mystery Jesus requires his disciples to believe what he says because it is he who has said it. His revelation should not be interpreted in a human way, that is, by focusing exclusively on what is visible to the senses or by having a natural as distinct from supernatural view of things: it should be interpreted as a revelation from God, who is "spirit" and "life." ] [ Commentary on the New Testament, prepared by the Catholic Biblical Association, 1942, page 319, on John 6:64: 64. Flesh in John's usage generally denotes human nature unaided by grace; if that is its signification here, the meaning is that they cannot understand the revelation without the help of the Spirit. Another explanation: it is not the flesh as such, but the flesh united to the Divinity, that becomes a food of supernatural efficacy. His revelation, if accepted, will lead them to this spiritual life. ]
@@alfray1072 first of all his flesh never seen corruption second if take time read chapter 6 of John you notice he was challenging the priesthood of Israel. With his statement for emphasis you must eat my flesh drink my blood. The says flesh is nothing compared to the words they are lite
@@edithhewson7208 Consuming The Body and Blood of Christ is different from an ordinary flesh. Jesus is telling the unbelievers (like protestants) that Jesus is the Manna/Bread of heaven in the New Covenant that must be consumed to gain eternal life. Very simple explanation. If you read JOHN 6, Jesus uses the words EAT and DRINK. EAT (Definition) - Put (food) into the mouth and chew and swallow it.; DRINK (Definition) - Take (a liquid) into the mouth and swallow. - Jesus is talking LITERALLY, that is why he sacrificed himself to the Father for us to CONSUME Him (Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity). The Holy Mass is the New Passover. St. Paul explicitly states this to the Corinthians that the consecrated bread and wine is the Living Body and Blood of Jesus to be consumed and they should be in a state of grace to be able to receive it. 1 COR 10:16-17 16 THE CHALICE OF BENEDICTION, WHICH WE BLESS, IS IT NOT THE COMMUNION OF THE BLOOD OF CHRIST? AND THE BREAD, WHICH WE BREAK, IS IT NOT THE PARTAKING OF THE BODY OF THE LORD? 17 For we, being many, are one bread, one body, all that partake of one bread. --- Is Paul in error when He says to the Corinthians that the consecrated bread and wine are the body and blood of our Lord ? He says: "THE COMMUNION OF THE BLOOD OF CHRIST" - DOES NOT LOOK A MEMORIAL TO ME. --- "Being many, are one bread, one body, all that partake of one bread." - This explains the assembly of faithfuls partaking communion, which is the essence of the mass. 1 COR 11:27-29 27 Therefore whosoever shall eat this bread, or drink the chalice of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and of the blood of the Lord. 28 But let a man prove himself: and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of the chalice.29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgment to imself, not discerning the body of the Lord. -- How can you be guilty of eating a symbolic bread, absent of the presence of God ? Paul nowhere states the Eucharist is only a symbol or spiritual, the words that are always emphasized are "offering", "body", "blood", "eat" and "drink" the body and blood of the Lord.
This sounds like an interesting video series! Are there plans to do the same for the other Eucharistic Liturgies in the Catholic Church? It would be cool to dive deeper into the Divine Liturgy, Qurbono, etc.
