Friday, July 4, 2014

St. Paul the Apostle: "We have an altar" (Heb. 13.10); INC100: 'That's superfluous!'

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The INC ('Iglesia ni Cristo') founded by Felix Manalo in 1914 - is celebrating its 100th year [but the Church built by the Lord on Cephas is already more than two thousand years in its existence since "the gates of hell shall not prevail against it."] and came up with this banner...



We have an altar (St. Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews, 13.10). Christians since the Apostolic Age render God cultic worship that is the very perfection of the Old Testament cultic rite through the perpetual oblation and sacrifice of Christ the High Priest over the house of God (Heb. 10.21) ACCORDING TO THE ORDER OF MELCHISEDECH  (Heb. 6.20) - that is, the continual oblation and sacrifice of His Body and Blood IN THE FORM OF CONSECRATED BREAD AND WINE (DISCERN... the Body of the Lord, 1 Cor. 11.29). This is the external form of perfect divine worship by Christ's inseparably and indefectibly always visible Mystical Body - the Church He already built on Cephas: the Catholic Church of consistent Apostolic Tradition (the NT Gk "paradoseis" of 2 Thess. 2.14), to distinguish it from the pseudo-Catholic Church or the so-called "New 'Catholic [Dis]Order' of Vatican II - here on earth. Whereas, the passage quoted is the other necessary part of the equation, so to speak: a perfect internal form of worship. To stress only the latter is to copy the error of the Lutherans.

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