tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21487528.post4019828895326103144..comments2023-08-19T23:23:19.849+10:00Comments on Sentire cum Ecclesia: More on Mary...Schützhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05026181010471282505noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21487528.post-64324836669408806612010-10-19T20:25:19.000+11:002010-10-19T20:25:19.000+11:00A wonderful read David - are there any other Luth...A wonderful read David - are there any other Lutheran ministers out there like you...?.<br><br>I have been contemplating what you wrote about the Cross in the past few days.<br><br>Such contemplation has helped me understand the mystery of my being and my own cross in life. <br><br>I also have been thinking what must the apostles had been thinking on the Saturday morning after the Lord had been crucified. <br><br>After they had dedicated their life to the Lord, they had witnessed or heard Him virtually bashed to death and their whole reason for living and faith in Him would have went up in smoke in one day. I wonder what gave them the 'spirit' to continue...<br><br>Some things are beyond our human understanding.Garethnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21487528.post-31624964883369977732010-10-20T00:21:38.000+11:002010-10-20T00:21:38.000+11:00I am not actually a "Lutheran minister" ...I am not actually a "Lutheran minister" any more, you know, Gareth...but I am happy to wear the title "Lutheran" if that means one who is deeply into the "theologia crucis" (and Luther was, just as Benedict XVI is). Lutheranism is, at its best, Christo-centric and "cruci-centric", that is, Christ and his Cross is front and centre in their spirituality. I never want it to be otherwise with me either, and I rather think the communion of saints is better understood through that lens too.Schützhttp://www.scecclesia.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21487528.post-50920459467428832612010-10-20T13:11:07.000+11:002010-10-20T13:11:07.000+11:00They, like us, are in the one communion in Jesus C...<i>They, like us, are in the one communion in Jesus Christ – a communion which not even death can sever (Romans 8). Christ is not simply the mediator between the saints and God, it is his Spirit that joins all the saints, living and departed, into a single communion of love, such that he is the connecting point between the saints themselves.</i><br><br>A beautiful image of the Communion of Saints. <br><br>Also appreciate your comments about the centrality of the Cross, still rooted in my spirituality as a Catholic.Christinenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21487528.post-14226964724105708682010-10-22T18:50:27.000+11:002010-10-22T18:50:27.000+11:00It is axiomatic of Lutheranism that it is Christo-...It is axiomatic of Lutheranism that it is Christo-centric. It should be axiomatic of Catholicism too.Schützhttp://www.scecclesia.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com