WE do not presume to come to this thy Table,
We call it ALTAR, not Table.
Becasue the Eucahrist is the same sacrifice of the Cross, made present of us, not only a thinking to such a sacrifice
The Altar is the Calvary, where Christ died and where Christ arose from the deaths.
Not simply a table, like the one you can find in a restorant
Take and eat this in remembrance that Christ died for thee, and feed on him in thy heart by faith, with thanksgiving.
We dont it the Holy Bread because we remeber, through it, of Christ death and ressurection.
We eat the Holy Bread because it IS the Body of Christ.
The anglican canon of the Mass is very ambigous: it can be acceptable by both a calvinist and by both a catholic.
But not because calvinist sand catholics believe in the same doctrine, but simply because the anglican canon uses ambigous expressions
Other than not trying to explain the mystery of God using human Aristotelian logic, how is this belief different from yours?
We catholics easily accept other ways to paint the Transubstantaion not using any Aristototelic term. It is not a problem for us.
Nor the Aristotelian logic explains the mystery. it simply uses specialistic terms, but it explains nothing. The mistery remains a mistery.
It is impossible to say how our believe is different form the Anglican's one, because the anglicans have not a defined believe and their prayers are very ambigous.
You shall believe that:
- there is an actual change in the bread before the Mass and the Bread after the Mass
- the Holy Bread after the Mass IS (to be) the Body of Chirst. The verb 'to simbolize' is wrong.
- the Change happen ONLY for the work of the Holy Spirt. The faithfulls faith, memory, mind, feeling, remembrance is completly uselss for the Change to happen
- the Sanctified Bread remains the Body of Christ even if no human people think to it.
- the Mass is the very one sacrifice of the Cross: not a repeatiotion, nor simply a re-mind of it. It happens on the escatological time, not on the human time.
- the Eucharist is a mistery above any human being: it is the true aliment for us. It cannot be measured by the single faithfull faith.
- only the Church, by the ministry of an priest or bishop ordained with the sacrament of Holy Order, can pray the Holy Spirit to do the Change.
If you believe these points, we have the same faith on this issue