Christian Petrucci

[Christian Petrucci @tucci777]

@3catturds @Hoot4USA @farmingandJesus We are not fighting Luther. We are calling our brothers in Christ back to the fullness of the faith.

[Christian Petrucci @tucci777]

@3catturds @Hoot4USA @farmingandJesus Faith without works is dead.
-James

[Christian Petrucci @tucci777]

@3catturds @Hoot4USA @farmingandJesus The Church of not teach that. It holds that every validly baptized Christian is part of the Body of Christ and deserves to be called a brother or sister. However, the fullness of that Body, all the means of grace, exists only in the Catholic Church.

[Christian Petrucci @tucci777]

@farmingandJesus No. The Vatican actually reminded Catholics of something the Church has always known: in true emergencies where a priest is inaccessible, perfect contrition, offered with the sincere intention to go to Confession as soon as possible, can restore a soul to grace.

[Christian Petrucci @tucci777]

@3catturds @Hoot4USA @farmingandJesus I hate to say it, but the exact opposite is true. The Catholic Church lives rent free in the heads of all Protestants because they have to constantly explain why they are not in the barque of Peter, which maintains an unbroken line of authority from Our Blessed Lord.

[Christian Petrucci @tucci777]

@3catturds @Hoot4USA @farmingandJesus You misstate the teachings of the Church. Plus, like St. Paul, we are just working out our own salvation with fear and trembling while trying to avoid the error of presumption.

-Philippians 2:12

[Christian Petrucci @tucci777]

@3catturds @Hoot4USA @farmingandJesus We are concerned, as well, but you overstate the case, dramatically. Thankfully the Chruch's teachings are immutable, notwithstanding the personal actions and opinions of the Holy Father. The church's issues also do not affect the efficacy of the sacraments.

[Christian Petrucci @tucci777]

@MJKelleyII @GringoPapist I say this with respect and filial concern in our savior, Jesus Christ: Are you serious? Your church history extends about 70 years, then jumps about 1,400 years, and ignores everything in between. And it gets the first 70 wrong, BTW.

[Christian Petrucci @tucci777]

@3catturds @Hoot4USA @farmingandJesus But, does "sat down" mean His priesthood ceased?

[Christian Petrucci @tucci777]

@3catturds @Hoot4USA @farmingandJesus We are not re-sacrificing Him. We are re-presenting the one sacrifice. It is true that Christ "sat down" because the work of redemption was finished. Catholics agree completely. The sacrifice of Calvary is unrepeatable, perfect, and complete. Nothing is being added to it at Mass.

[Christian Petrucci @tucci777]

@3catturds @Hoot4USA @farmingandJesus AND, the priest doesn't claim to own Christ. The Church has never taught this. The Church teaches that Christ is simultaneously the Priest, the Victim, and the Altar. - CCC 1545, drawing from Hebrews

Christ offers Himself. The priest participates in Christ's own self-offering.

[Christian Petrucci @tucci777]

@3catturds @Hoot4USA @farmingandJesus Rev. 5 establishes that ONLY Christ is worthy to open the scroll. Absolutely true. The seals in Rev. 5 represent divine sovereignty over history and final judgment. No one is arguing a priest has THAT authority. The question is whether Christ can work THROUGH a priest at Mass.

[Christian Petrucci @tucci777]

@3catturds @Hoot4USA @farmingandJesus No. No man is worthy. The Catholic Church has never claimed otherwise. The priest does not offer the Eucharist by his own merit or worthiness. He acts "in persona Christi" or "in the person of Christ." It is Christ who is the true High Priest. The ordained priest is an instrument

[Christian Petrucci @tucci777]

@3catturds @farmingandJesus I respectfully disagree with your understanding of what Jesus and the Apostles taught about the Eucharist. It is simply not so. Please do read that book I suggested.

[Christian Petrucci @tucci777]

@Hoot4USA @3catturds @farmingandJesus I do the same. Audible has been great!

[Christian Petrucci @tucci777]

@3catturds @farmingandJesus Let's do this. Read "Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist" - by Brant Pitre. You owe it to yourself to get the correct answer to your question instead of hearing it from me. https://t.co/w0pxVpwI03

[Christian Petrucci @tucci777]

@MJKelleyII While I suspect you know this, the Council of Rome, in 382 AD under Pope Damasus I, issued the Damasine List, which established the definitive 73-book biblical canon (including the deuterocanonical books) later reaffirmed at the Council of Trent.

[Christian Petrucci @tucci777]

@3catturds @farmingandJesus Great minds think alike! I was just about to say the same thing! God bless and keep you!

[Christian Petrucci @tucci777]

@3catturds @farmingandJesus All of the Church Fathers unanimously taught that the Mass is a sacrifice. They saw it as the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy of Malachi. (1:10–11) The Lord would reject Israel's sacrifices and instead receive "a pure offering" made to him by the Gentiles in every place

[Christian Petrucci @tucci777]

@3catturds @farmingandJesus We are just going around in circles. I'm not trying to win an argument. I'm trying to introduce you to the fullness of the faith. If the Eucharist is what Jesus said it is, and what the Church teaches it is, then you are missing quite a bit.