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Woke up JUST in time for Mass

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Bible study this morning interrupted by a free PDF from Catholic Answers about the Mass which LITERALLY CHANGED OUR LIFE, honestly we didn't know this and it is TRANSFORMATIVE.

Hugged Mimic "thank you for existing" basically

Ascension mass! We were the cantor which was an honor
I love how the church looks at that later hour. Everything is awash in quiet gold.

Dad visit
Why do both our parents talk about PESSIMISM?
We weren't helping though, God forgive us. Social mode makes us "fit the mood" even if it's poisonous

Lotophagoi girl destroying food
Almost a purge
GODPHONE TURNED ON, HEADSPACE ON HOLD???
Why ALWAYS with bulimia panic symptoms???

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The Infi era collapsed because we were BLURRING WHITE & BLACK TOO MUCH???
"White is never so white as when it is relieved against black"

Headspace history ALSO LAW VS GRACE
"Law has no tenderness, no pity, no feeling... [only] the fierce light which it casts upon men’s duty and the terrors of its retribution. Inflexible, and with no compassion for human weakness, it tells us what we ought to be, but it does not help us to be it... they help nothing to the fulfilment of their own behests, and that they are barbed with threatenings of retribution. Like some avenging goddess, law comes down amongst men, terrible in her purity, awful in her beauty, with a hard light in her clear grey eyes-in the one hand the tables of stone, bearing the commandments which we have broken, and in the other a sharp two-edged sword."
WOW HI OLD LAURIE!!!!
THAT IS WHY SHE CHANGED WHEN SHE BECAME THE KNIGHT OF TRUTH!!!


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More faithpasting to refine and type about:

"Law commands and demands; it says: ‘This shalt thou do, or else-’; and it has nothing more that it can say. What is the use of standing beside a lame man, and pointing to a shining summit, and saying to him, ‘Get up there, and you will breathe a purer atmosphere’? He is lying lame at the foot of it. There is no help for any soul in law. Men are not perishing because they do not know what they ought to do. Men are not bad because they doubt as to what their duty is. The worst man in the world knows a great deal more of what he ought to do than the best man in the world practises. So it is not for want of precepts that so many of us are going to destruction, but it is for want of power to fulfil the precepts.
Grace is love giving. Law demands, grace bestows. Law comes saying ‘Do this,’ and our consciences respond to the imperativeness of the obligation. But grace comes and says, ‘I will help thee to do it.’ Law is God requiring; grace is God bestowing. ‘Give what Thou commandest, and then command what Thou wilt.’... Grace has drawn near in Jesus Christ, and a giving God, who bestows upon us a life that will unfold itself in accordance with the highest law, holds out the fulness of His gift in that Incarnate Word. Law has no heart; the Gospel is the unveiling of the heart of God. Law commands; grace is God bestowing Himself.
And still further, law condemns. Grace is love that bends down to an evildoer, and deals not on the footing of strict retribution with the infirmities and the sins of us poor weaklings... Thank God! law needed to be ‘given,’ but it was only the foundation on which was to be reared a better thing. ‘The law was given By Moses’-’a schoolmaster,’ as conscience is to-day, ‘to bring us to Christ’ by whom comes the grace that loves, that stoops, that gives, and that pardons.
...The Gospel which comes by Christ is not law, but truth. The object of law is to regulate conduct, and only subordinately to inform the mind or to enlighten the understanding. The Mosaic Law had for its foundation, of course, a revelation of God. But that revelation of God was less prominent, proportionately, than the prescription for man’s conduct. The Gospel is the opposite of this. It has for its object the regulation of conduct; but that object is less prominent, proportionately, than the other, the manifestation and the revelation of God. The Old Testament says ‘Thou shalt’; the New Testament says ‘God is.’ The Old was Law; the New is Truth. ...The Gospel is not law; the Gospel is truth. It is a revelation of God to the understanding and to the heart, in order that thereby the will may be subdued, and that then the conduct may be shaped and moulded. But let us begin where it begins, and let us remember that the morality of the New Testament has never long been held up high and pure, where the theology of the New Testament has been neglected and despised. ‘The law came by Moses; truth came by Jesus Christ.’
...still further, let me remind you that, in the revelation of a God who is gracious, giving to our emptiness and forgiving our sins-that is to say, in the revelation of grace-we have a far deeper, nobler, more blessed conception of the divine nature than in law. It is great to think of a righteous God, it is great and ennobling to think of One whose pure eyes cannot look upon sin, and who wills that men should live pure and noble and Godlike lives. But it is far more and more blessed, transcending all the old teaching, when we sit at the feet of the Christ who gives, and who pardons, and look up into His deep eyes, with the tears of compassion shining in them, and say: ‘Lo! This is our God! We have waited for Him and He will save us.’ That is a better truth, a deeper truth than prophets and righteous men of old possessed; and to us there has come, borne on the wings of the mighty angel of His grace, the precious revelation of the Father-God whose heart is love."

Sorry for datadumping but this is ALL SO RELEVANT
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Maclaren:

"The thing that chiefly separates man from God is man’s sin. When that is removed... we shall, as it were, fall into the brightness and be one, not losing our sense of individuality, which would be to lose all the blessedness, but united with Him in a union far more intimate than earth can parallel."
THAT IS WHAT THE HYPERRELIGIOUS KAKOFONI DO NOT UNDERSTAND!!!!


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And now for those MASS PDF REVELATIONS HOLY SMOKES

Etymology of sacrifice, Salvation, atone, expiate, propitiate, etc.

"The cross is incomplete without the Resurrection." !!!!!!!!

The Eucharist is a TIME MACHINE in a sense
We become "mysteriously present" AT THE CROSS AND THE EMPTY TOMB BOTH!!!
It was a historical event through Jesus as Man, AND an ETERNAL event through Jesus AS GOD!!!
Thus the Spirit's Presence MAKES ETERNITY PRESENT and therefore THAT UNIQUE HISTORICAL EVENT IS ACCESSIBLE "NOW"!!!!

"the Mass is Christ’s sacrifice made present again. It’s not recalled, as if it had been absent or was merely a past event. It’s re-presented."

"Jesus offered himself as a sacrifice in order to bring
us salvation and give us his spirit" = IN BECOMING HUMAN, HE MADE HUMANITY PART OF GOD! THEN WHEN HE DIED & LEFT HIS HUMAN BODY, HE "TOOK DEATH WITH HIM" AND THE HUMAN NATURE WAS TRANSFORMED BY HIS ACTING IN IT. HUMANITY NOW HAD EXISTENCE AFTER DEATH, THROUGH CHRIST TAKING HUMAN NATURE BEYOND IT.
THE SPIRIT COULD ONLY COME TO US AFTER CHRIST'S ASCENSION BECAUSE THAT IS WHEN HE LITERALLY TOOK HUMAN FLESH INTO GOD!!! AND AS A RESULT, HUMAN BODIES BECAME "LINKED TO GOD" AND COMPATIBLE WITH HIS PRESENCE, THROUGH CHRIST'S PRESENCE IN MAN!!!
THE ASCENSION MARKED A NEW EXISTENCE FOR HUMANITY, ONE IN INNER UNION WITH GOD THROUGH CHRIST.
PENTECOST WAS THE BIRTH OF THIS NEW HUMAN NATURE-- THE BAPTISM = BIRTH WITH/THROUGH THE SPIRIT & FIRE!!!

"Pentecost is the fruit of the sacrifice of the cross and the victory of the Resurrection. Thus, the Church teaches that every Mass is a new Pentecost, a new opportunity to receive the Spirit afresh (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 739)."
I DID NOT KNOW THIS!!! That gives us SO MUCH HOPE because we're always afraid that since we don't remember our Confirmation-- and were poorly prepared for it; our parents practically chose our Saint's name-- we don't "actually" have the Holy Spirit. BUT if EVERY MASS He comes to us again, then... we're not lost, we've never been lost. We're marked as His and He makes His home in us again whenever we open the door.


"...we are offering to the Father the only sacrifice ("to make holy, to make at-one with God") that could possibly please Him: the perfect offering of His perfect Son. But it is our offering as well, since the Son has generously made us members of His Body."
GAME CHANGER!!!!!!!!
It's also the "only pleasing sacrifice" because God desires nothing less than PERFECT RESTORATION AND UNITY OF RELATIONSHIP. He's not being "picky" or "hard to please"-- He's DETERMINED TO GIVE US THE BEST IN RETURN. He is infinite and CANNOT give imperfectly or in pieces. He gives ALL, GENEROUSLY. So He isn't pleased when an imperfect, half-hearted sacrifice is offered... because that CANNOT "AT-ONE"!!!

Wearing vestments = acting NOT AS SELF, but in the person/ as the "icon" of CHRIST THE TRUE PRIEST!!!
All human priesthood is but a REFLECTION OF HIS? All its efficacy, purpose & power is FROM CHRIST ALONE. It is not of ourselves AT ALL.

"As they come into that church, though, they’re no longer just scattered individuals but members of Christ’s body. At Mass we deepen our communion not only with Christ, but with the whole Church, including the saints and our beloved deceased."
REFLECT ON THIS.
When we enter that building we enter into Christ in a special way = like the Body & Blood uniting, we the Members now enter into the SAME PHYSICAL SPACE as our Head, PRESENT IN THE EUCHARIST through eternal now-ness in the Spirit??

"But this liturgy of the word isn’t a corporate catechism lesson intended to present abstract doctrine. Through the readings the Lord wants to speak to us personally, penetrating to the depths of our hearts with a nourishing, challenging word that draws us to conversion... this word wasn’t just for the apostles 2000 years earlier; it was for [us], right there and then."

"The Church has always venerated the divine Scriptures just as she venerates the body of the Lord, since from the table of both the word of God and of the body of Christ she unceasingly receives and offers to the faithful the bread of life, especially in the sacred liturgy (Dei Verbum, 21).
We read Scripture first because it builds up our faith. Christ is present in it, preparing us to discern the Real Presence of his body and blood under the signs of bread and wine."

"The transformation of the bread and wine happens the same way Mary’s virginal conception did: through the power of the word and the power of the Spirit... It is accomplished the same way creation was: God spoke, and the world was made out of nothing through the power of the word and the Spirit."

ALL OF THAT IS THE LOGOS!!!


⭐"In theology, though, substance means something that underlies what you can see and touch. It’s the essence of the thing that resides under its appearances. Surface characteristics, on the other hand—accidents, as theologians call them—have to do with everything that could be otherwise—say, how long your hair is or how fat or thin you are.Transubstantiation, therefore, means that while the bread and wine look the same on the surface, their underlying essence is changed. This is the opposite of what happens in the world, where appearances change while the essence stays the same. (Getting a haircut or gaining five pounds isn’t going to affect the essence of who I am.) In the Eucharist, though, the underlying, invisible substance is transformed from bread and wine to Christ’s body and blood. Everything looks the same as before. Even with a microscope, you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference, for the level at which this change happens is far too deep for human probing."

THAT IS ALL INDISPENSABLY IMPORTANT
(also sadly laughing at the haircut analogy-- not so in headspace, where "accidents" are a DIRECT REPRESENTATION of the "essence" they make visible.)

⭐⭐⭐Wine is the blood of the grape. We can appreciate the significance of this only if we understand the meaning of blood in the Old Testament. There, blood is equated with life. It’s not seen as sustaining life—rather,
for the Jew, blood IS life, and it belongs to God... In the Eucharist, Jesus gives us a share in God’s divine life by giving us His own blood. His plan for us goes way beyond making us into decent folks who have gotten rid of gross immorality. Jesus came so that we might share in everything He has and become “partakers of the divine nature” (2 Pet. 1:4). What is this divine nature? Essentially, it’s the inner life of the Trinity: three persons eternally pouring themselves out in self-giving love for each other. This is agape, or charity, and drinking Jesus’ blood gives us an opportunity to share in it so that it can become the principle and power of our own
lives. In order for us to stay alive, every cell in our body needs to be bathed with blood that nourishes, cleanses, and purifies our system (!!!). Similarly, taking the blood of Christ in Communion will bring us to full spiritual vitality. It will strengthen and cleanse our entire being—spiritually and even physically, if it be God’s will."⭐⭐⭐


"The One we take upon our lips and into our bodies in the Eucharist is the same Jesus Who raised Lazarus and healed the man born blind: the risen Lord, Who will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead and Whose kingdom will have no end."
 

GOD BLESS MARCELLINO D'AMBROSIO, SERIOUSLY