2007-10-26 06:12:27 · 9 answers · asked by Emperor Insania Says Bye! 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Father K - I have never heard put that way. Kudos!
2007-10-26 07:47:04 · update #1
The word translated as "remembrance" is actually misleading. The Greek word is "anamnesis".
Anamnesis is even broader. Beginning with Christ's words, "take, eat; this is my body" (Matt. 26:26; cf. Mark 14:23, 1 Cor. 11:24) and "drink of it, all of you; for this is my blood of the new covenant" (Matt. 26:27), it proceeds to the offering, the invocation of the Holy Spirit, culminates in the sanctification of the holy gifts and their sanctification by the power of the Holy Spirit, and is completed through holy communion, becoming a personal event.
Thus, anamnesis becomes an incessant dynamic turning to the Triune God, the source of being; a grafting into Christ, a receiving of the Holy Spirit, an orientation that gives meaning to our life and to our march within space and time. Through the renewal of anamnesis the church maintains her vitality and truth.
Anamnesis is a "calling forth through space, time and dimension' to make Christ "really present" in the hear and now.
2007-10-26 06:17:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 3⤋
i'm not attentive to any Pagans who ever drank blood, a minimum of not in the western international. It became into seen to be poisonous by utilising maximum. As to ingesting flesh, celebrations and feasts have been generally area of maximum Pagan get-togethers...and the beef became into completely cooked animal flesh (not human) and served like various present day meal you or i could consume right now. So, Christian communion rituals would be unable to be based on a faux seen Pagan rituals that in the time of no way existed... and as to satanists, they did not exist on the time the communion ritual became into created, so returned, the question is illogical. Jean
2016-09-27 22:40:35 · answer #2 · answered by pellish 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's also something to remember when we eat. If it's a ritual, there is something quite unfair. Only the priest drinks the wine. What if the bread got stuck in our throats? Honestly, if you're spiritual, it's a ritual. It is one time when the Holy Spirit descends on the congregation. If you pray for the sick during that time, there could be healing.
2007-10-26 06:19:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
I don't believe God to be a God of ritual. Ritul sounds to me as something we do without thought. Communion on the other hand out to be done with deep reverence for what Christ has done for us.
2007-10-26 06:21:56 · answer #4 · answered by Joy 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
One thing was meant: it was a time to get right with those around us...our relationships...and we were supposed to do it in remembrance of the body broken and blood shed
2007-10-26 06:17:24 · answer #5 · answered by christian_me 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Jesus was Jewish. This was what Jewish people do as did Jesus. The Christians made it into part of the organized religion. How wrong is this. Tell me I am listening.
2007-10-26 06:17:27 · answer #6 · answered by plyjanney 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
do this in remembrances of me (practiced ritual)
2007-10-26 06:28:06 · answer #7 · answered by lee.emma37 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
We are told to "do this as oft as ye shall......in remembrance of me."
2007-10-26 06:33:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
A rememberance that Jesus, who is God, died for our sins on the cross and rose again.
2007-10-26 06:17:02 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋