tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21487528.post8480240304439275790..comments2023-08-19T23:23:19.849+10:00Comments on Sentire cum Ecclesia: Another important "Catholic Principle": CommunioSchützhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05026181010471282505noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21487528.post-21972521184002151652009-10-15T03:20:31.000+11:002009-10-15T03:20:31.000+11:00This is also conected to the understanding of salv...This is also conected to the understanding of salvation. In the Catholic (and Orthodox - and I am aware of the irony of using thoise terms in this context) understanding we are saved As members of the Church while the classic protestant (not necessarily Lutheran) position is that salvation is an individual thing. To the Calvanist the church is a group of people who have been saved while to the Catholic the Church is the body you join in oreder to be saved - "Look not on our sins Lord but on the faith of your Church."An Liaignoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21487528.post-10959646202168487442009-10-16T00:43:18.000+11:002009-10-16T00:43:18.000+11:00.When we take Holy Communion ,we Remember His Deat....When we take Holy Communion ,we Remember His Death ;we are expressing our Unity with the Risen Lord Who is the Head of the Church;we are expressing our unity with each other.I take great joy in knowing that when we say the Creed at Communion we are speaking as individuals saved by Grace but corporately identifying with each other and our Brothers and Sisters both now and who have gone before us.matthiasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21487528.post-58551065699823143302009-10-21T19:18:16.000+11:002009-10-21T19:18:16.000+11:00Not "trying to be catholic", David, but ...Not "trying to be catholic", David, but "being catholic", according to the ancient definition that prevailed up until 1563 and beyond as far as I am concerned. Even if, for argument's sake, I was to concede to the RCC the right to determine what is catholic, it itself acknowledges that those "who believe in Christ and have been baptised are put in a certain, although imperfect, communion with the Catholic Church" [Unitatis redintegratio].Mark Hendersonhttp://acroamaticus.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com