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Category Archives: Eucharist
Thanksgiving – Eucharistic Man
I’ve been pondering what to write for Thanksgiving this year. I considered the usual list one often sees, but in truth such a list would have little on it beyond my family and other relationships. At the end of the day, it’s people who matter to me. As I’ve been reading (and blogging) Alexander Schmemann’s [...]
The Elements or Gifts of the Eucharist
In other posts, I’ve looked at the Eucharist in history, at the mystery of the Eucharist, at its place in liturgy, and many other questions. A conversation with my youngest daughter this past week left me reflecting on the elements or gifts themselves or, to put it more prosaically, the bread and wine. There have [...]
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Baptists, Eucharist, and History 25 – Conclusion
This seems like a good place to bring this series to a close. I believe I’ve demonstrated what the Internet Monk called “the historical problem” with the Baptist understanding of the Eucharist. I’ve meandered through the writings of the early church, the church under persecution, from the first century to the third century. Consistently, from [...]
Baptists, Eucharist, and History 24 – St. Cyprian on Our Daily Bread
This excerpt comes from St. Cyprian’s Treatise on the Lord’s Prayer. As ever, I do recommend reading the entire work, but I’ll focus on the part that directly relates to the topic of this series. As the prayer goes forward, we ask and say, “Give us this day our daily bread.” And this may be [...]
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Baptists, Eucharist, and History 23 – St. Cyprian on the Importance of Holding Fast the Tradition
We conclude today our reflections on St. Cyprian’s letter on properly preparing the Cup of our Lord. I want to end by looking one more time at the strength and passion with which St. Cyprian writes we should hold to the truth we have been given. There is then no reason, dearest brother, for any [...]
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Baptists, Eucharist, and History 22 – St. Cyprian on the Inebriating Cup that Returns Us to Spiritual Wisdom
We continue today with St. Cyprian’s letter on properly preparing the Cup of our Lord. Since, then, neither the apostle himself nor an angel from heaven can preach or teach any otherwise than Christ has once taught and His apostles have announced, I wonder very much whence has originated this practice, that, contrary to evangelical [...]
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Baptists, Eucharist, and History 21 – St. Cyprian on the Union of Wine and Water
We continue today with St. Cyprian’s letter on properly preparing the Cup of our Lord. I’m going to skip around a bit to highlight the specific meaning that St. Cyprian sees in the Cup of water and wine mixed together. I’m going to skip past the references he uses from the septuagint. I do recommend [...]
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Baptists, Eucharist, and History 20 – St. Cyprian on the Necessity of Wine
We continue today with St. Cyprian’s letter on properly preparing the Cup of our Lord. I find it likely my reflections on this letter will need to be broken into several posts. Concerning the necessity of wine, St. Cyprian writes the following. Know then that I have been admonished that, in offering the cup, the [...]
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Baptists, Eucharist, and History 19 – Intro to St. Cyprian on Preparing the Cup of Our Lord
In this letter St. Cyprian of Carthage addresses an issue on the proper preparation of the Eucharistic cup. I believe it would be extremely beneficial for anyone interested in this topic to read the entire letter. Some were preparing a cup with only water rather than water mixed with wine. However, in his fairly gentle [...]
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