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Skip to comments.'An Ordinance Forever' - The Biblical Origins of the Mass
Posted on 01/31/2009 3:49:27 PM PST by NYer
Issue: What are the biblical origins of the Mass and the New Testament priesthood? Is the Mass really a sacrifice, or is it merely symbolic?
Response: The biblical origins of the Mass and the New Testament priesthood are rooted in the Old Testament. Both the Old and New Testaments provide clear evidence that the Mass is a true sacrifice, offered by a priest, and the Victim is the Body and Blood, soul and divinity of Jesus Christ.
God stated three times that the Passover sacrifice would be an ordinance for ever, not for a temporary period, such as until the Messiah came. This sacrifice, and other Old Covenant sacrifices, find their culmination in Christs sacrifice on Calvary (Ex. 12:14, 17, 24; cf. Lk. 22:7-20). Christs sacrifice at the Last Supper was a sacrifice of His Body and Blood, soul and divinity (cf. Catechism, nos. 1362-67, 1373-77). Much as the sacrifice offered at the Last Supper fulfilled the Old Covenant sacrifices, the priesthood of Christthe priesthood of Melchizedekreplaced the Levitical priesthood of the Old Testament. This New Testament priesthood, handed on to the apostles and their successors, allows Christs sacrifice on Calvary to fulfill the perpetual ordinance of a sacrifice through the celebration of the Mass (cf. Heb. 6:19-7:28).
Prefiguring the Lamb of God
God made a covenant with Abraham, swearing that all the nations (Gentiles) would bless themselves through his descendants (cf. Gen. 22:18). He designated Mount Moriah as the place where He would provide the sacrificial lamb, which was prefigured by the lamb that Abraham sacrificed that day (cf. Gen. 22:4-14). God the Father fulfilled the sacrificial provision in an ultimate way by offering His only-begotten Son (cf. Gen. 22:2; Jn. 3:16), the Lamb of God (cf. Rev. 5:6).
Interestingly, Mount Moriahs location, Salem, is another name for Zion or Jerusalem (cf. 2 Chron. 3:1; Ps. 76:2). In fact, Scripture identifies Mount Moriah as the site of Solomons Temple in Jerusalem, the city in which Christs sacrificial death took place. Also, Melchizedek was the priest and king of Salem (cf. Gen. 14:18). Jesus, as the Lamb of God Who takes away the sin of the world, is the definitive High Priest according to the order of Melchizedek; Jesus offers Himself as the sacrifice of salvation and the universal blessing through whom all the nations will bless themselves (cf. Gen. 22:18; Acts 3:17-26; Heb. 6:19-7:28).
According to the terms of the Old Covenant, the Passover sacrifice has to be offered at the Temple in Jerusalem (cf. Deut. 16:1-6; 2 Chron. 35:1-19), a sacrifice that has not occurred since the Temples destruction in A.D. 70. One is left with two alternatives. First, one could state that Israel has failed to keep the covenant with God recorded in Exodus 12. Yet if that is true, God is thereby implicated for failing to provide His People with the means to continue the ordinance that He told them to keep forever.
Alternatively, one could state that the Temple sacrifice was destined by God to become obsolete and that, as the Lamb of God, Jesus perfectly fulfilled the Passover sacrifice (cf. 1 Cor. 5:7). This is the teaching of the Church. Jesus prophesied the fall of the Temple (cf. Mt. 24:1-2), an event that happened in A.D. 70 shortly after the desolating sacrilege of the Temple (Mt. 24:15). In addition, while prophets accurately foretold that the Temple would be rebuilt after its destruction in 587 B.C., no subsequent biblical prophets prophesied the Temples restoration after Christs predicted destruction.
Attempts to rebuild the Temple have failed, most notably the effort of the Roman Emperor Julian the Apostate in 362. He hoped to discredit Christs prophecy about the Temple. Violent earthquakes at the site killed many of his workmen. When miraculous balls of fire kept bursting forth from the Temple foundation to prevent the approach of workmen, Julian finally abandoned his attempt.[1]
The question remains: How does the Passover sacrifice of Jesus Christ continue as an ordinance forever? Just as the old Passover lamb freed the People of the Old Covenant from the bondage of slavery, the new Passover Lamb frees us from the slavery of sin (cf. Mt. 26:28). In accepting Saint John the Baptists designation of Jesus as the new Lamb of God (Jn. 1:29-35), Jesus states clearly that He will be both sacrificed and eaten (cf. Lk. 22:7-20; Jn. 6:51-66), just as the old Passover lamb was both sacrificed and eaten (cf. Ex. 12:8-11). Unfortunately, most contemporary Protestants do not accept this biblically based teaching about the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist.[2]
Transcending Time and Space
The quick Protestant rejoinder to Catholic teaching on the Mass is that Christ died once for all (cf. Heb. 9:26-28; 10:10), to which the Church would say, Amen! The Church has always taught that the one sacrifice of Christ and the sacrifice of the Eucharist (the Mass) are one single sacrifice, and that the Eucharistic Sacrifice re-presents (makes present) Christs sacrifice on the Cross (Catechism, nos. 1366-67, emphasis in original). How can this be? God the Son created time and space and therefore is not bound by them (cf. Jn. 1:1-3). As eternal Being, Christ stands outside of time, and therefore all of history is simultaneously present to Him. We cannot fully grasp Gods omnipotence. Like the dogmas of the Trinity or Christs being both God and man, Gods omnipotence is beyond our capacity to understand, yet does not contradict reason. To argue that God is limited by time and space is necessarily to argue that God is not omnipotent, and therefore not God.
In short, then, God cannot create something, including time and space, that can limit Him. For example, because of Gods omnipotence, all of us, not just one of us, can be temples of the Holy Spirit (cf. 1 Cor. 6:19). This demonstrates His ability to be beyond space, for the Holy Spirit is present in the souls of all believers: the saints who have died (cf. Rev. 6:9-11), as well as all the faithful who are living today.
We can also speak of Gods ability to be present throughout time on earth and also outside of time in heaven. Relative to God, Who is eternal and unchanging, everything is present; relative to us human beings, everything we experience is bound by time and space. Because the Son of God is eternal and transcends time, what He does as the God-Man in history can transcend time. Jesus sacrifice on Calvary is thus once for all, yet never ending; it is timeless. Thus, when we re-present Christs one sacrifice at Mass, God actually enables us to make ourselves present to this timeless offering. Analogously, we become present to the sun each morning. The sun basically stays put, while we change relative to the sun because of the earths daily rotation.
The Eucharistic Sacrifice is foreshadowed by the prophet Malachi: For from the rising of the sun to its setting my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense is offered to my name, and a pure offering; for my name is great among the nations, says the LORD of hosts (Mal. 1:11). The Church sees these verses as a prophecy of the Sacrifice of the Mass, for what other truly pure sacrifice could there be that Christians can offer throughout the world every day?
The Masss transhistorical nature is first illustrated when Christ offered His glorified Body and Blood at the Last Supper, the day before He actually died on the Cross (cf. Catechism, nos. 1337-40). It is illustrated thereafter in the Mass offered by His disciples. Saint Paul notes that Christs sacrifice as the new Passover Lamb is once for all, but he also explains that its celebration somehow continues on in history: For Christ, our paschal lamb, has been sacrificed. Let us, therefore, celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth (1 Cor. 5:7-8). Thus, the merits of Christs sacrifice are applied to Christians throughout the centuries.
We speak of the Eucharist as an unbloody sacrifice. Christ is not killed at each Mass. If that were so, there would be many sacrifices, and Christ would not have died once for all. Rather, the Council of Trent teaches that at each Mass the same Christ who offered himself once in a bloody manner on the altar of the cross is contained and offered in an unbloody manner (as quoted in Catechism, no. 1367).
Hes Got His Whole Self . . . in His Hands?
Some people ask incredulously, Could God hold Himself in His hands at the Last Supper? And how could He offer up a sacrifice the day before He actually died? The short answer is that Jesus could because He can do all things (cf. Mt. 19:26), such as when He appeared to His disciples in the flesh miraculously after His Resurrection, despite locked doors. To answer these questions about the Last Supper adequately, we must examine the biblical and other historical evidence for the sacrificial nature of the Eucharist by analyzing whether God really offered His Body and Blood, soul and divinity at the Last Supper, and whether priests re-present the same sacrifice at every Mass.
Consider Jesus words: [H]e who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. . . . [H]e who eats this bread will live for ever (Jn. 6:54-56, 58).
Some Christians argue that Christ meant this statement figuratively, just as He did when He described Himself as the vine or the door (Jn. 10:7-9; 15:1-5). However, to eat the body and drink the blood of someone was an ancient Hebrew idiom that meant to slander a person. The Old Testament testifies to this figurative meaning: When evildoers assail me, uttering slanders against me, my adversaries and foes, they shall stumble and fall (Ps. 27:2). A footnote in the Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition confirms that uttering slanders against me in Hebrew literally means to eat up my flesh. If we then insert the figurative meaning in John 6:54, Jesus says that he who slanders me has eternal life. Such a figurative interpretation would make our divine Lord look very foolish.
While the Levitical priesthood prohibited the consumption of blood (cf. Lev. 17:10-14; see also Gen. 9:1-4), Jesus came to do away with and yet fulfill this temporary discipline. Given that this Levitical prohibition and similar ones that were still in force when Christ preached on the Eucharist in Capernaum, one could understand the Jews disbelief and would therefore expect Christ to clarify Himself if He intended a figurative interpretation of His words. However, despite the ensuing departure of many of His followers (Jn. 6:66), Jesus did not back down from His command to eat His Body and drink His Blood.
Like the Passover lambs before Him, Jesus would be both sacrificed and eaten. Whereas animal blood symbolized life and thus yielded imperfect atonement, Jesus freely offers us His Bloodindeed commands consumption (cf. Jn. 6:54-55)because His Blood provides us redemptive life and perfect atonement.
Saint Paul affirms Christs Real Presence during the sacrifice of the Mass (cf. 1 Cor. 11:23-32). How can people be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord (1 Cor. 11:27), and why are they getting sick and even dying, if they are merely consuming bread and wine? As Jesus teaches and Saint Paul affirms, the re-presentation of this one offeringthis breaking of bread (Acts 2:42)was to continue in the Church. We partake of this one sacrifice in a sacramental manner, under the appearance of bread and wine, and in a way that does not diminish God, Who is infinite. Jesus not only fulfills Passover in Easter, but also makes it possible for the New Covenant of His sacrifice to be re-presented every day at Mass.
The Priesthood of Melchizedek
Christs priesthood forever according to Melchizedek (cf. Ps. 110:4; Heb. 5:6) makes clear the connection between the Last Supper, Jesus Crucifixion, and the Mass. When Christ died on Calvary, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him, being designated by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek (Heb. 5:9-10). While Christ suffered and died once for all, His sacrifice on Calvary is somehow connected with and continues forever according to a Melchizedekian offering or sacrifice: one using the elements of bread and wine (cf. Gen. 14:17-20). On the day before He died on the Cross, Jesus pre-presented His completed, glorified sacrifice under the appearances of bread and wine (cf. Lk. 22:19-20) and thus manifested that He is not constrained by time (cf. Catechism, nn. 1337-40). Fulfilling Christs command to [d]o this in remembrance of me (Lk.22:19), the Church re-presents this same timeless offering of His Body and Blood under the appearances of bread and wine.
Indeed, as a faithful Priest Who continues to intercede for His People in Heaven after His death and Resurrection, Jesus must have something to offer. He does, and it can only be His one, definitive, and never-ending sacrifice (cf. Rev. 5:1-14), which He continues to offer forever as a priest according to the order of Melchizedek through His priests on earth (cf. Catechism, no. 1337). While Jesus does not need to re-present His sacrifice sacramentally to save us, He faithfully continues the Passover ordinance forever as His gift to us, reminding us daily of His great love and providing us with abundant graces to aid our journey to heaven. When the Church celebrates the Eucharist, she commemorates Christs Passover, and it is made present: the sacrifice Christ offered once for all on the cross remains ever present. As often as the sacrifice of the Cross by which Christ our Pasch has been sacrificed is celebrated on the altar, the work of our redemption is carried out (Catechism, no. 1364, citations omitted).
Christ is the one mediator between God and man (cf. 1 Tim. 2:5), but He allows certain men to participate in His mediation, by exercising authority in general (cf. Mt. 28:18-20), granting forgiveness of sin (cf. Jn. 20:21-23), and re-presenting His one sacrifice sacramentally (cf. Mt. 26:26-28). The Catholic Church is the new Israel, a spiritual house, and a holy priesthood (cf. 1 Pet. 2:5). The Eucharist is disconcerting to some Christians, not only because it simultaneously shows Gods awesome omnipotence and humble condescension, but also because it reminds us that salvation is not a momentary, once and for all event, but a process that involves our saying yes to God each and every day. Salvation is by grace, but our free assent is needed for the gift of salvation to be efficacious in our lives.
Christ has perfected the Passover ordinance. He has torn down the barrier between God and man, enabling us to be reconciled to the Father and partake again of His divine nature (cf. Rom. 5:15-17; 2 Pet. 1:4). Heeding Christs command, we continue re-presenting and partaking of His sacrifice at every Mass. While [t]his is a hard saying (Jn. 6:60), it is very much in keeping with salvation history, and not too remarkable for a God Who created us out of nothing and became man to save us from our sins. Our response to such an incredible gift should echo the words of Saint Peter, when Christ asked him if he also would leave Him: Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life; and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God (Jn. 6:68-69).
In case you were wondering.
Thank you, NYer. This is an excellent explanation all in one place. I have read some of these things before, but never all in one article. I especially like the connection between the Passover ordinance to continue forever and the Mass fulfilling that ordinance.
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Nope, I wasn't wondering.
Exodus 12:14 calls the feast of Passover a "memorial", and to make this memorial an ordinance - a part of the Jewish Law. What exactly does that have to do with the Mass and it supposedly having literal sacrificial power?
The Jewish people who celebrated the Passover Feast did not hold the feast itself up to be sacrificial, but a remembrance of the Grace of God who "passed over" those homes marked with sacrificial blood, and also in remembrance of God's further deliverance from Egypt.
This is exactly the same context and picture that Christ painted at the Last Supper - when he instructed the Disciples to "take, eat", this is My Body.... Do this in REMEMBRANCE of me. Christ did not say to make it into a continual sacrifice, but to do it "whenever you come together" as a remembrance.
The Lord's Supper (Communion, Eucharist, etc.) is an ordinance (command/rule) that we do, just as the picture of the Passover Feast to the Jews, to remind us of what Christ has done as the PERFECT Passover lamb.
Hebrews 10:7-18 gives a clear picture of the REAL sacrifice - that was given one time for the remission of sin. Not a continual offering by priests:
7Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. 8Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law; 9Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. 10By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 11And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: 12But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; 13From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. 14For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. 15Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before, 16This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; 17And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. 18Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
Read those verses slowly and carefully. Don't take ANY out of context or try to trim away the parts that are inconvenient.
The writer was clearly reaffirming that God was not pleased by the old sacrificial system. Instead, He made ONE sacrifice - through His Son - for all sin. And look at v. 14 - FOR BY ONE OFFERING He hath perfect for ever them that are sanctified.
This was all accomplished by the perfect Sacrifice of Jesus Christ - which we remember by celebrating the Lord's Supper.
Let me respectly disagree!
It seems to me, when our Lord Jesus Christ ended His conversation,in the third chapter of John,as to His flesh and His blood; He said: "It is the Spirit that quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing; the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life." (John 6:63)
Earlier Jesus taught; "Woman, believe Me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father. Ye worship what ye know not
what: We know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. But the hour cometh, and now is, when true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth; for the Father seeketh such to worship Him. God is a Spirit and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth."John 4:21-24)
I also claim "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of god." and "The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God." (Romans 8:14 & 8:16)
"And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ: if so be that we suffer with Him, that we may be also glorified together." (Romans 8:17)
"For we must all appear before the judgement seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body; according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. Knowing the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are manifest in your consciences." (II Cor. 5:10-11)
"Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away, behold all things become new. And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing their trepasses unto unto us the word of reconciliation. Now we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us, we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. For He (God) hath made Him (Jesus) to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him." (II Corinthians 5:17:21)
And last let us remember our Lord Jesus prayed: "....that they may be one, even as we are one." (John 17:22b)
In summation; Let us build bridges, and not walls. That is reconciliation!
Amen & Amen !
I also think upon our Lord's presence in: "For where two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I in the midst of them." (Matthew 18:20)
And in: "....I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee." (Hebrews 13:5b)
Also: "Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever." (Hebrews 13:8)
A whole new batch.
Amen back!!!
What, exactly, is your disagreement?
Shows how the traditional Mass sums up the entire Old Testament worship from the time of Adam to the time of Christ, how even minute details of the present Mass were used by Christ in the very First Mass, and how they have come down to our day with the same symbolic meaning they originally had. The author delves into the history and tradition of every aspect of Hebrew worship and shows clearly how Our Lord blended and wove them all together into the beautiful liturgy we call the Mass. Impr. 438 pgs, PB
We Catholics and Orthodox enter in to that one offering made present, every time we assist at Mass.
Good observation, but the fact that the people understood Christ to be speaking literally about his flesh and blood should clear up any doubts concerning figurative speech in the context of John Ch 6.
Also the word "spirit" is nowhere used in the Bible to mean "symbolic", it is as real as the material.
In verse 63 we see a contrast between the "the flesh" or carnal man, and the "spirit" filled man:
1 Cor 2: 10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
1 Cor 14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Christ also says "the flesh" profiteth nothing he does not say "my flesh" profiteth nothing.
1 Cor 3 1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. .. 3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
And that is the problem. Christ says that we are to do it as a Memorial. He says nothing about doing it repeatedly as even a Part of a sacrifice.
The verbage may change, but what you are admitting is (and some right here on FR has said as much) that it is an act of sacrifice (sacrament) every time it is celebrated. Thus the reason it is called a Sacrament, and the reason it can be "withheld" like other of the big list (7) of sacraments - as practically a punishment.
The treat used today (that has seldom been carried out) by the Church to withhold the sacraments from politicians who support abortion is just a reflection of the "sacraments" being used as a weapon to get their way in the church back in the mid-2nd century forward.
Of course, this leaves out the very clear Biblical command that the partaking of the Lord's Supper is left to the judgment of the one partaking - thus the admonition against those taking it unworthily - they drink unto themselves condemnation.
Time after time, legalism and reliance on anything beyond faith in Jesus Christ is condemned by Paul and others (including Christ Himself). Yet through "tradition", the church has developed a set of 7 tools to control and manipulate people, and to grant itself special powers to withhold God's grace. From the concept of a priest to present or conduct so many of these sacramental acts, to so many other non-Biblical teachings, the Church has developed by tradition and man's words, what Christ has exclusive authority over.
Even with so much church history filtered through Catholic sources (so many records that conflict with the Catholic view of history have been destroyed or suppressed), an open-eyed study of the history of Christianity is eye-opening.
Just as with any source of info - pay attention to the source. Even Bibles have fallen into the hands of translators with a bias (thus the gender-neutral translations for one). History books are exactly the same - one from a distinctly Catholic view will be far different from one with a distinctly Methodist, Baptist, or whatever view.
Want an ultra-Baptist source for church history - check out The Trail of Blood. But while I am Baptist, I find that work to be stretching a great deal to promote a view that I don't believe is completely "pure".
But the point is - as we read in 2 Timothy 2:15 "Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth."
The love of God, demonstrated through the perfect life, death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ is sufficient. We don't need an earthly "priest" to bestow God's Grace upon us, and we certainly do not and cannot earn or buy it - God's Grace is a a free gift (Romans 5:15).
I notice that you bolded the word 'remembrance'; why not the words DO THIS? In 1 Cor. 10:16, Paul asks the question, "the cup of blessing and the bread of which we partake, is it not an actual participation in Christ's body and blood?" Is Paul really asking because He, the divinely inspired writer, does not understand? No, of course not. Paul's questions are obviously rhetorical. This IS the actual body and blood. Further, the Greek word "koinonia" describes an actual, not symbolic participation in the body and blood.
Hebrews 10:7-18 gives a clear picture of the REAL sacrifice
Look at 1 Cor. 10:18. In this verse, Paul is saying we are what we eat. We are not partners with a symbol. We are partners of the one actual body. Paul does not explain what he has actually received directly from Christ, except in the case when he teaches about the Eucharist. In 1 Cor. 11:23, 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. In the Emmaus road story (Luke 24:26-35), Jesus gives a homily on the Scriptures and then follows it with the celebration of the Eucharist. This is the Holy Mass, and the Church has followed this order of the Liturgy of the Word and the Liturgy of the Eucharist for 2,000 years.
It is evident you are teaching when our Lord said: "This do in remembrance of Me," He was teaching literally, that we eat His literal flesh, and drink His literal blood."
I believe and understand the Lord Jesus was emphazing and magnifying "Remember Me."
Our focus should be on the person, and not on the loaf, nor the cup."This do in remembrance of Me," can be likened unto
"This is My beloved Son, hear Him."
My prayer is; "that we all continue to examine ourselves,and earnestly seek to please Him, as we pursue godliness, and "Study to shew our selves approved unto God, rightly divding the word of truth." (2 Timothy 2:15)
You could not get more carnal than teaching: "you must literally drink human flesh, and you must drink literal blood."
As God word says: "To be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace." (Romans 8:6)
Of course He was, -- why else say so?
You previously noted that John 6:63 Jesus also instructs that the food of the Eucharist is spiritual food, that is, it is not there to feed the body. However, nowhere does Jesus instructs us to take the Eucharist symbolically. It is true that we should remember Jesus (and not only in the Eucharist), that the Eucharist is to feed our spirit, that He is present in many ways at all times and not solely Eucharistically, and that we should imitate Him and become like Him. The Church does not disagree with any of that. However, to ignore the discourse on the Eucharist in John 6, or to dismiss the instruction to "do this" -- i.e. eat His Body is to ignore the clear teaching of the scripture.
Better brush up on your reading of St. Paul's epistles before you try and pass yourself off as an authority on Scripture, again.
"And giving thanks, broke, and said: Take ye, and eat: this is My body, which shall be delivered for you: this do for the commemoration of Me. In like manner also the chalice, after He had supped, saying: This chalice is the new testament in My blood: this do ye, as often as you shall drink, for the commemoration of Me. For as often as you shall eat this bread, and drink the chalice, you shall shew(that means proclaim for those of you who were educated in an outcome based curriculum) the death of the Lord, until He come. 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. But let a man prove himself: and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of the chalice. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgment to himself, not discerning the body of the Lord. Therefore are there many inform and weak among you, and many sleep." 1 Corinthians 11:24-30
I should add that "do this" in Luke 22:19 means both for the Apostles to offer His body in the future, and for all of us to partake of it.
The qualifier "in rememberance" ensures that it is not a separate sacrifice that takes place at Mass but rather the one perfect sacrifice becomes accessible to us over time and space (Heb. 10:14)
It is true that in isolation that phrase alone might mean something akin to an anniversary celebration that we have for various occasions, for example, as we gather for a meal on an anniversary of a wedding or someone's birth or death. But we also have John 6, that specifically discusses the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist (my flesh is food indeed), and in 1 Corinthians the Eucharist is explained as having the power to unite His Church on the path to salvation (1 Cro 10:17, 1 Cor. 10:33), to show us the Paschal sacrifice of Christ (1 Cor. 11:26), but also to condemn those unworthy of receiving His body (1 Cor. 11:29). A mere symbol would not do that.
Shew is translated from the Greek word artos a masculine noun,and in other translations is "show" - the Israelites made it in the form of an oblong or round cake, as thick as ones thumb, and as large as a plate or platter hence it was not to be cut but broken. It again, is a sign or picture of the death of Christ.
Further - what was this "sign" to signify? It was to serve as a reminder of what Christ had done - until His return (which hasn't happened yet). We are to commemorate Christ's payment for sin each time we celebrate the Lord's Supper.
And the last section you pasted - For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily - drinks and eats judgment unto themselves. A better (accuracy from the Greek) would be:
For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself. That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have died.
And let us not leave out the context of 1 Corinthians 11 - and what the focus of this section was - The church at Corinth had become very polarized into what we today would call "cliques". When they would gather for the Lord's Supper (remember, in that time, they didn't have a formal "ceremony", it was "whenever they gathered together". This does not imply that they had the Lord's Supper every "Sunday" or worship day. Remember, for the entire congregation to come together in a local church at that time was not always an easy feat. Some would have to travel, weather, and other responsibilities and such prevented them all from coming together as one body, but I digress...
Anyway. This church had basically broken into the "haves" and the "have-nots". Those with money and riches were bringing their own "feast" for the Lord's Supper, while the poor arrived with little or nothing. And each group was eating and drinking on their own. This was not in the spirit that Christ intended and Paul was preaching against that practice - calling for each to come together.
Remember - the "Last Supper" - the event that serves as an example for celebrating the Lord's Supper, was at the conclusion of a fellowship meal - not of a "church service". Does this preclude having the Lord's Supper in conjunction with a regular service? - not at all. But again, look at the example.
And Christ's own words speak to this all being done IN REMEMBRANCE - not as a renewed sacrifice. But if we participate - and yet we are unworthy (definitely does not mean perfect, as none are righteous - period), but indicates one's heart towards the Lord and his fellow brothers and sisters in Christ.
This is somewhat akin to calling oneself a Christian, while blaspheming God at every turn. Wearing the title unworthily (without being a "born-again" believer in Jesus Christ" is dangerous. But again, I somewhat digress.
And far be it for me to lay ANY claim to being an authority on Scripture. A student of the Scriptures? Yes. Someone who takes study and prayer seriously? Yes. A seminarian? Yes. But I will never lay claim to being an expert or an authority, regardless of how much education I receive.
What I do know - I will never place my faith and trust in anything a human being can do or claims to be able to do. My faith and trust are completely and totally 100% in the redeeming work already accomplished by Jesus Christ in that once and for all sacrifice on the cross - His death, burial, and resurrection (which is part of what scriptural water baptism demonstrates...fodder for yet another debate), His continued work towards sanctification in my life, and the eternity He has for me in HIS Heaven.
Let me close, for I am persuaded that we cannot but continue in circles, with these thoughts.
"Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations. For one believeth that he may eat all things, another, who is weak, eateth herbs. Let him that eateth despise not him that eateth not; and let him which eateth not judge him that eateth for God hath received him. Who art thou that judgeth another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up; for God is able to make him stand.
One man esteemeth one day above another; another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind." (Romans 14:1-5)
"......for we shall all stand before the judgement seat of Christ." (Romans 14:10b)
Excellent! And Amen!!!!!
A very good point: IN REMEMBRANCE-—NOT A RENEWED SACRIFICE!!!!!!!
As God's Word teaches us, "to have the mind of Christ" and
"the Spirit of Christ" (Phil. 1:5 and Romans 8:9)
With this concept His Mind and the Spirit bears witness with my spirit, we are not called to eat human flesh, nor drink human blood."
Apparently, for the Protestant heretics to take the Holy Scripture seriously it has to be addressed to them specifically, and not to the Church of Corinth.
The context is unity on the body of Christ (10 Cor. 16f); the Holly Sacrifice of the Mass is contrasted with heathen offerings (10 Cor. 10:20). That is interrupted in the begining passages of Ch. 11 with a discourse on appearance as a sign of internal schism (1 Cor 11:16f), then the topic of the Eucharist is resumed in v.20.
We see that the Eucharist is not an ordinary meal (v.22). Rather, the words of Institution in the Gospel of Luke are repeated (v. 23-27). This passage is, therefore, a reminder of the sacramental nature of the Eucharist as contrasted with a common memorial snack which the sectants had. One would think that a modern day sectant -- a Protestant heretic -- read that passage with some attention, as it applies to him dircetly, rather than wave it off as some kind of "context".
But is the error of the sectants in Corinth merely disunity? Not at all; the error is theological: they don't understand What they eat (v.29). The Eucharist itself will deliver the punishment. Signs and symbols cannot do that.
I don't see any circles. The scripture plainly shows the Protestant desacralized view of the Eucharist as a gross error. The limited nature of the law of Moses and the call to charity in Romans 14 has nothing to do with the topic on hand.
Error? Like reading in "Holly Sacrifice of the Mass" where it does not exist in the Bible. I believe that is addressed quite clearly in:
Deuteronomy 12:32
Proverbs 30:6
1 Corinthians 4:6
Revelation 22:18-19 (MAY be referring to that particular book...so I won't be too dogmatic about this one).
And why are we not to add to (or take away) from God's Word?
Psalms 119: 160
Again, the Lord's word does not relate in any way that the Lord's Supper, itself, has any form of sacramental power or nature. Every time it is mentioned, it is as a remembrance of the one perfect sacrifice of Jesus Christ. It is proclaimed that we are to do it whenever we "do this" (as in gather to celebrate) - it is called an ordinance - a rule or command that we are too do it until the Lord's return.
Every one of the Epistles included in the Canon of scripture is there because of a selection process - one of the big questions - did it have "universal" application - not just to the audience in the salutation. Was it spread beyond the person or church that letter was addressed to.
Each letter, then applies to each church (and we could delve into the whole "universal" vs. "local" church argument another time). Thus each letter is also applicable to us today. For that matter, I read the Bible as if every part were addressed to me. If it does not directly apply, I still have a lesson to learn from it - just as each individual and autonomous church had in the first century.
But context is so important in ANY reading to understand what is actually being said. And considering how important the Bible is, and the authority of the Bible - we should be careful then, if we are to understand what IT says, that we understand the context (one reason the study of Biblical History is so important to Bible translation and interpretation. In fact, History helps to give teeth to the study of Biblical languages (primarily Greek and Hebrew).
Your interpretation that the chapter comes to an abrupt stop to address an apparent schism (which was indeed in the brewing within that local church at Corinth), then just as abruptly changes direction back to the Lord's Supper comes from your presupposition. Yet it is all interrelated, and further does not match Paul's literary style or the logic of the text itself.
The early church, from an historical perspective, would have regularly eaten - some together, some not. And bread being a staple along with wine, the "elements" would have been fairly common. BUT...
They were instructed by Christ first, then by Paul, to assemble together to solemnly commemorate Christ's sacrifice. You are correct, when they celebrated this - it was no ordinary meal. But it was usually celebrated in conjunction with a meal - just as the "Last Supper" was.
Also keep in mind what "doing church" was like for the early Christians, so many of which had to exercise their worship in private (most early churches were in member's homes). It was often an all-day affair. Thus it would seem a logical extension that they would share a meal - and then would celebrate the Lord's Supper.
And remember what the term "Protestant" means... For some of us, who are Baptist and of the more conservative varieties who can be called "landmark" Baptists - we believe that the "true" church has existed, very often in parallel to, the "Catholic" church (a term that developed in the 2nd and 3rd Century - but still not universally applied to the religion of Rome until even later) throughout church History from the time of the Apostles. Thus, technically, Landmark Baptists do not believe that their faith evolved out of the Catholic Church, although the Reformation did a great deal to help the cause.
You'll have to take it up with Christ, he taught it.
The context of John Ch 6 bears witness to it.
The original Greek bears witness to it.
The Church Fathers bear witness to it
St. Paul bears witness to it.
Regards, Gonzo
If you wish to dispute the analysis of the text of 1 Cor. 10 and 11, please do so.
My contention is that the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is fully explained in the relevant passages of 1 Cor 10-11. I explained why: the Sacrament is related to the Christian unity, salvation, and above all is explained to literally be the body and blood of our Savior. Failure to understand it is explained to be damning in itself. Memorial meals do not do that. What, precisely, in this paragraph do you dispute?
You made references to various verses to do with adding to the Scripture. The Holy Catholic Church not only did not add or subtract from the Scripture — she is what made the scripture available to you today, despite Protestant corruption. The Church can however, authoritatively explain the scripture. If you think anything was added to it by us, please do not hesitate to substantiate your charge, briefly, and I will respond, also briefly as it is not the main topic.
Out of curiosity, what scriptural or historical record is landmark Baptist mythology based on? I am aware that Baptists do not like to be called Protestants, but on the issue of the Real Presence of Christ in the Sacrament you seem to be no different from any post-Calvin Protestant. Let us remember that the topic of the thread is the Catholic teaching, not the distinctions that may exist among the non-Catholics.
Thank you,
And praise God I can and have taken it up with my Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ. As we know, He came unto His own, and His own received Him not. But as many as received Him to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name. Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld His glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.(John 1:11-14)
And of His fulness have all we received, and grace for grace. For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. (John 1:16-17)
Aren't you glad it is not men who decides who is saved, and it is not men that saves. We praise God, that salvation is of the Lord.
In His mercy and grace;
1. The verses from 1 Corinthians used do not identify the "elements" as literally the body and blood of Christ. That interpretation quite literally did not become a Catholic doctrine officially until well after the 3rd Century - well over 200 years after Paul and the other Apostles were long gone, and well after all of the books now considered the New Testament Canon were penned and widely distributed.
1 Cor 10:16 is close, and 1 Cor. 11:27-29 makes it clear that whatever the elements are in some intrinsic sense, they have the same effect as the actual body and blood. Further, the words of Jesus repeated in v. 24 leave no doubt: "this is my body". This is even if we leave John 6 out of scope, as does St. Paul.
2. The Church of the 2nd and 3rd Century was in no-way unified as "one body", and was quite divided over even basic items as the supremacy of the Bishop of Rome. It was the 6th Century before there was a near universal (among Catholics) acceptance of the superiority and authority of the Roman Bishop, thus the reason many histories point to approximately 600 A.D. as the beginning of the fully-recognized papacy.
What does that have to do with anything? It is indeed evident from both canonical and early non-canonical writings that the unity of the Church suffered from heresies. How does that make body and blood of the Lord any less so? If anything, the supernatural power of the Eucharistic feast can be credited with bringing the orthodox parts together while cutting off the heresy. This is the same power of communion that is in operation today, that was described in St. Paul in chapter 10.
3. The concept of "transubstantiation" was one hotly debated within the walls of the Catholic Church for quite some time, yet was not the view expressed by Paul.
The concept that the scripture expresses directly, in John 6 and in "this is my body" language of the Institution, is Real Presence. Transubstantiation is inded a later conceptual framework that resulted from the scholastics' synthesis of Aristotelian theology and Catholic theology of the Real Presence. Transubstantiation is what explains the Real Presence. But one does not have to believe in transubstantiation in order to believe the Real Presence. to believe in the Real Presence one only needs to read the scripture as written. "This is my body"; "my flesh is food indeed" is clear enough.
Further, Christ uses the word "anamnēsis" or "memory/remembrance". Whenever we partake of it at what the early Christians called the "Love Feast", we were to be reminded by the cup of Christ's Blood shed for us, and by the bread - his body which was sacrificed.
Well, of course we are reminded. That is the least of what is happening. But, as I made the point earlier, reminders don't feed the spirit, don't give everlasting life, and on the other hand don't condemn the sinner. Christ does.
From catholic.com" Catholics, on the other hand, recognize that the Bible does not endorse this view and that, in fact, it is repudiated in Scripture. The true "rule of faith"as expressed in the Bible itselfis Scripture plus apostolic tradition, as manifested in the living teaching authority of the Catholic Church, to which were entrusted the oral teachings of Jesus and the apostles, along with the authority to interpret Scripture correctly. "In the Second Vatican Councils document on divine revelation, Dei Verbum (Latin: "The Word of God"), the relationship between Tradition and Scripture is explained: "Hence there exists a close connection and communication between sacred Tradition and sacred Scripture. For both of them, flowing from the same divine wellspring, in a certain way merge into a unity and tend toward the same end. For sacred Scripture is the word of God inasmuch as it is consigned to writing under the inspiration of the divine Spirit. To the successors of the apostles, sacred Tradition hands on in its full purity Gods word, which was entrusted to the apostles by Christ the Lord and the Holy Spirit. " The official line is that teaching and tradition are just as important as the Bible.
Yes. That we teach: that the Holy Tradition is the source of the Holy Scripture as it preceded it. We also teach that the role and prerogative of the Church is to explain the Scripture, and that private interpretations of the Scripture are to be discouraged, at least unasmuch as they deviate from the magisterial teaching. Are you commenting on my question where did we ADD to the Scripture? My question still stands: whether you hold the Church as authority on the scripture or not (in reason your should, but that is another topic) explaining the scripture is not adding to the scripture.
Further on down the same page, the claim is made that Paul addressed Timothy in a way that backs tradition and teaching as scripture - and even tries to use "context" to back this up - yet it completely ignores a fact - a great deal of the early scriptures were orally taught because not every church had copies of all the letters. Yet would it make any logical sense that Paul would teach something differently than he wrote it down (considering that the written word was actually God's Word through Paul)? Unless Paul was teaching different doctrine than he wrote on - then the answer is simple - Dramatic turns in Catholic church teachings and doctrine throughout the centuries - in comparison to God's Word which remains - just as the Divine Author - constant and secure.
There were no "dramatic turns" in the Catholic doctrine. There was refinement of accepted doctrine, and there were non-Catholic heresies. But you are correct, of course: nothing that comes from the authentic Holy Tradition can possibly contradict scripture, and indeed, written word has advantages over unwritten one. This is why the evidence of the Holy Tradition is likewise in permanent form: they are ancient hymnody, iconography, hagiagraphy, exegesis of the Fathers of the Church, the Liturgical canons, etc. It is not like priests in seminaries are wispered something orally into their ears while holding their pens down.
And the Lord's word cannot, because of the Author's perfection, conflict or contradict itself. Yet the Catholic Church relies on Deuterocanonical books (AKA - the Apocrypha) to justify those practices and doctrines that cannot be justified or proven through the standard Canon, even when such books or particular teachings might conflict with the other scriptures. This is almost comparable to the Mormon use of their own "Deuterocanonical books" - the Book of Mormon and the Pearl of Great Price... Interesting parallel.
The Deuterocanon comes from the Septuagint, was standard reference material for the Holy Apostles as we can ascertain from the way in which they quoted the Old Testament, and it in no way contradicts the rest of the Scripture. What they do contradict is the theological fantasies of Luther, which is the reason he worked to get them removed. This is a good moment to recall that prohibition of altering the scripture and see who is really guilty of that.
What the heck happened to the formatting? The preview showed it all nice and neat with paragraphs... I just came back and find this mess??? Ugh
I think I separated your post logically; I did not skip any, just broke it into sections as I answered. It is a mystery why the preview didn't post.
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Stop by our information table in Patriot and learn what the Washington Internship Institute has to offer you and your educational experience.
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I did not care for this particular recipe. The flavors, to me, were not good. I ended up adding b-bque sauce and yellow mustard once they were done. Even with those additions, neither of my small children ate them either. I found the veggies did not get quite "done" either, which I typically like a little crunch to my cooked veggies, just didn't care for that texture in these beans. Sorry not to leave a better review!
I made this for a potluck on the beach!! It was just terrific served at room temp. I did this in a microwave rather than a crockpot to save time. I also used a food processor to finely chop up the veggies. I also added a bit of garlic and tabasco. Thanks Lennie


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I hear ya, but there is a difference between Hubbard and Hankins or Nick Fairly or that monster LSU had a couple years back.
I thought we were looking for DTs who could eat up the middle?
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I hear ya, but there is a difference between Hubbard and Hankins or Nick Fairly or that monster LSU had a couple years back.
I thought we were looking for DTs who could eat up the middle?
"Maybe go after a few more lacrosse players and turn them in D-linemen."
I don't think that would work well to be honest. I think the best DL are the kids who have been big all along and have become athletic because they played sports/competed while growing up. The kids you have to add a bunch of weight to are more likely to get injuries and have problems in my view. Get naturally big kids who are good athletes and have motors that like to run.
So why are there so few in the midwest vs the south? I think its cultural to a large degree. Those big kids in the south come form poor families often and they don't have much in the way of opportunities early on other than city/county rec league sports so they all play in everything..... even the unathletic looking big kids. Playing DT is doing the "dirty work" so to speak and a lot of kids aren't conditioned to do "dirty work". Kids in many southern towns grew up doing dirty work their whole lives. Its the only kind of work they can get
Good points regarding pulling for the Sooners.
For me mostly its "anyone but 'Bama". I think Sweeney seems like a good guy, yes he is a little overboard in some ways but he is mostly likable......... to me. Dantonio winning it all would sting a little but it would just be a resurfacing of the sting from us not making it when we really SHOULD have. That sting will resurface for the rest of my life............... but thoughts of 2014 immediately surface to act as a salve!!
A Sparty/whoever final is all Im pulling for. Whoever takes it from there is not a strong feeling.....yet. Sometimes I don't know who Im pulling for until a game starts and something happens.
While Ive always had a bit of an affinity for fellow B1G teams, going all the way back to the 70s, it has increased much more over the last decade as the SEC homers pushed all their " 7th place SEC team would win the B1G" sh!t. I really just want to shut them up.
I can even agree that the SEC has been the most impressive top to bottom for quite a while and they do play a great brand of football but the difference is neither as big nor should it mean as much in the rankings as it seems to.
To see the mighty perennial SEC champ Alabama get beat by two different B1G teams in the playoffs in consecutive years would be soooo sweet!
About that MSU game I agree. It hurts even more now and is the most inexplicable loss in my lifetime.
I know the Beck hatred is high around here but we need to put the blame in two places IMO 2) JT..... he had his worst game as a Buckeye with missed reads and vision downfield under pressure. There were opportunities to make plays and he just missed em. Hey it happens, I can live with that. 1) Urban Meyer... He knew Zeke was gonna be less than 100%... sounds like way less so instead of just going away from your usual offensive sets and completely changing things how about give Dunn the ball and see what he does? You've been raving about his progress all offseason and he has looked good in his spot duty so GIVE HIM THE DAMN BALL!! Virtually every other top team out there has a second or third back that gets meaningful carries from their typical sets but we only seem to get Brax or Samuel carries on jet sweeps or wildcat stuff. Its baffling to me. Going away from what you typically do is not usually a recipe for success and Meyer should get full blame here. Im sure he gets last say on all personnel decisions.
Honestly I can live with a player having a bad game more than a head coach who doesn't trust his players in a tough environment. Im not suggesting that this should put Meyer on thin ice in any way, shape or form but I think it does show what his frailties are as a coach. His circle of trust needs to be expanded and he shouldn't go into a shell when the environment gets a little scary and unfamiliar. We played scared that night and it was because he coached scared. He didn't have Zeke at flu strength, JT was off and he didn't have any other trustworthy (in his mind) options. He either is remiss in not developing a player he can trust in that situation or he was unable to see that there was another guy he could trust.
I love Meyer and don't want him to go anywhere but his own insecurities cost us that game.
Well Ive always kinda pulled for B1G teams in games against other schools but I would have NEVER engaged in stadium wide "BEE ONE GEE, BEE ONE GEE,....." type chants as is common amongst the SEC folks. While I will pull for MSU, mainly because of Dantonio, I won't take some sort of "conference superiority" away from it. The main reason I pull for B1G schools usually is I have followed them and know more of their players..... and there are usually OSU connections somewhere on coaching staffs as well.
I hope like hell that Dantonio stomps Saban, he owes him one from a few years back. Its gonna be a tall order for sure but I think they have the goods to do it. I think they can keep Henry from running crazy on them and make Coker make a couple plays
" I hooked up with Jennifer Lawrence and Krysten Ritter last night. "
Thats pretty funny cuz I actually was with Jennifer last night.
Pruitt is kind of an asshole according to people in the know around here............. just sayin'
Thinking the same thing here. I bet McElwain gets a call this week reminding him how important it is for the conference to get a team in the playoff. Im sure a couple million to the school is all it would take for Florida not to play TOO hard. Don't want Henry injured or anything y'know.
Cmon man, if we had played Bamas schedule we'd be beating our chests about the number of bowl teams we'd beaten. Give credit where its due. Is Bama clearly the best team right now? I don't think so but they ARE in the discussion. Would they want to play us right now? I doubt it.
Does the SEC get too much credit conference wise? I think so but that doesn't mean they aren't a tough conference. Its all a matter of degree.
I have conceded for years that the SEC , top to bottom, is the toughest.... but not by nearly the margin they like to think. They have 6-10 programs that put the type of financial support to football that only OSU/Mich and maybe PSU/Neb do in the B1G. MSU lags behind us in the type of financial commitments to football but they get huge returns on their investments. In the SEC you have Bama, Auburn, LSU, UGA, Fla, Tenn, S Car, A&M, Arky and Ole Miss that throw tons of money at coaching staffs, recruiting pipelines etc. Obviously many get a poor return on their investments but they put a better than average product on the field most of the time.
Personally I agree with the approach of the NW, Wisc, Minn and Iowa programs(Wisc is actually a tweener); get a solid coach, find players that buy in and are tough and go play sound football. Will they beat the A&Ms/Arkansas/Ole Miss/South Car most of the time? Maybe not but they will beat them enough of the time and rarely get embarrassed.
I think the SEC schools are stupid to be honest. They end up having 3 or 4 that pay mega millions for a 4or 5 loss team and then they have to pay more to upgrade their coach to meet the fans ridiculous expectations.
We really shouldn't be talking about this anymore but.......... my final $.02
I think the correct place to put blame is on Meyer. He sets the tone and HE was playing scared Sat night. First time Ive seen it. I am glad Meyer is our HC but I have said form the very beginning that he is "Tressel out of the shotgun", which BTW isn't a slam since I think Tressel was an outstanding coach. Most of the things that people think make Meyer different from Tressel are window dressing type stuff. In game thinking and philosophy are very similar. Run it run it run it, shorten the game, play good defense, go home with W. Meyer cares little about being criticized for stomping people (Tressel would call off the dogs earlier in my opinion) but that is the main style difference.
His offense were NOT wide open at UF. He dinked us to death in '06 and smothered us with a great D. Meyer will use tempo (but it is being used less and less for some reason). Meyer is not the best tactician in the business, not the best clock manager and not the best strategist either, but his total package is top 2 or 3 mainly because he doesn't suck at aforementioned things and he is a great recruiter and great motivator. I think he is a great motivator because he just channels his own genuine feelings to the young guys. They know he loves and cares about the sport/team he is working with. This is his passion.
Meyer laid a big egg Sat night I think..... he shit the bed. There were huge outside factors like absolutely miserable weather making a lot of things very difficult but Meyer shrunk his circle of trust it seems. Once we really got into the game Meyer just wanted to get out of there with a 17-14 win and couldn't care less how his team looked. He turned it over to JT hoping the way he bailed us out in Happy Valley last year would happen again... and JT couldn't do it. No slam on him even the best sometimes fail. Meyer had a small circle of trust when it came down to it. He needs more people he CAN trust (on the field) or he just needs to trust more people and allow them to live up to that trust.
I think today will show a lot about Meyer. How OSU plays today, win or lose, will say a lot about how he handled his own role in the loss. I expect that he will get more guys involved and not put everything on JT. But this tendency of Meyers is not going away completely... its part of who he is. In fact its probably true of all coaches that they have a small group of guys they trust waaay more than others and they lean very heavily on them. I think Urban just really put too much on JT in the end and should have trusted some other guys too.
I don't think enough people remember how hard this crowd was on Tom Herman a couple years back. Yes he turned in an outstanding postseason performance (with some help of fine players mind you), but he was pretty ...... meh.. up until then. We looked good at times and looked lost at others. I love Tom Herman but I think it is way too early to call Beck a failure. No doubt he must take some responsibility for last week (as should Meyer and Warriner.... and JT frankly) but to lop off his head after a bad performance in AWFUL conditions is plain silly. Doing that will not be something that will make our job of finding someone else easier.
2002 Hands down
My first visit to the Shoe and took my dad and 13 yr old son as well. A very surreal day.
They looked pretty good in the Sugar Bowl too. We didn't exactly wipe the floor with them. Yes we were better on third down all night, had more big plays, forced more three and outs but we were still an Evan Spencer catch of a tip of the football away from really sweating bullets!!
Our 28-0 blitz over a qtr and a half was damn impressive but we didn't exactly curb stomp the Tide. It was one of the better CFB games Ive watched. Two heavy weights taking their shots nd landing quite a few................ we just landed the biggest one from 85 yards!!!!
Neither have I.
He's one of the few I haven't heard do that either. Mark Richt is another who is totally classy when it comes to that stuff.
Actually Ive never heard Saban do it either. He has plenty of other unendearing qualities but running down other programs doesn't seem to be one.
Now Spurrier on the other hand......!
Yes it is
".but now that falls under non-permissible benefits, which is a whole 'nother can of worms, and one that can get a HC and AD fired."
Absolutely!! Which was part of my point in that comment. I believe, just piecing together some comments this guy has made, that this WAS an impermissible benefit that got its cover blown when someone saw Jameis with crab legs he didn't pay for. So FSU had to do some sham investigation and punishment. This wasnt about the Tallahasse police dept not punishing theft it was about the FSU athletic dept having to create a "theft" story, not really punish the guy and then call it over. Its ugly either way but Jameis was not a thief if my suspicion is true.
As someone mentioned above, he likely heard his comment on the OReilly interview and came in the next day talked about Meyer, his book and the FSU comment. Either the surgeon jumped to a conclusion about the book or my buddy heard the "Urban Meyers new book" and "FSU comment" and understood the surgeon to be saying that these FSU comments were in the book.
Its not stealing if the owner is an FSU booster and allows it. This is my suspicion. Its just that someone outside the program saw it. Jameis was likely not careful enough
BTW, one thing about that whole crab legs thing that I think has never been stated (admitted) but based on some of this guys comments is likely true; I suspect that that Publix is a place where ALL FSU players know they can go to get free food and what happened was someone saw Jameis with crab legs and saw that he didn't pay for them. He wasn't stealing but just taking advantage of a perk that someone else (who was not in on the "deal") happened to see and question. This of course would be a worse violation than having a thief for a QB so FSU just went with a sham investigation and punishment.
Thats probably the case now that you mention it
I hear what you are saying LEALMAN and I agree, however for the most part I find all those types of discussion to be nothing but UN illuminating. Pointing out the sins of others is a quite popular activity and we never see ours as serious. Im not being critical of Meyer cuz I have no idea about the context of his comments Im simply saying I try hard to stay away form all those discussions with other fan bases.... I've never walked away form those interactions feeling like 1) anything was settled or 2) anything was learned
Well Im sure there are ways that some people have heard about or seen excerpts that are known to be in the book. Im also sure there are many Tallahasse folks who were waiting to see what might be said in a book by Urban and used connections to find this type of info.... there is no doubt that kind of stuff goes on with any "tell all" book. Not that Meyers book falls exclusively into the tell all category (its mostly the coach book I spoke of I imagine) but there are certainly some tell all aspects to it.
I like the forementioned surgeon of rthe most part but he is a little full of it when it comes to these matters.


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Days are long and hard raising four children, going to school and working.
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Calderon, 30, began working at Amarillo Diagnostic Clinic in August 1998. She moved from medical records to scheduling appointments and became a well-known face to many patients. There was one problem: "There's not a whole lot of moving up," Calderon said.
Her supervisor, LuAnn Dreessen, encouraged Calderon to return to school for a higher education.
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