tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-764674316779975439.post5917485090374315292..comments2023-04-15T07:25:51.957-07:00Comments on Society of Archbishops Cranmer and Laud: Rev. Dr. Hasserthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14350737386756722887noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-764674316779975439.post-47413494632207878922010-02-11T11:19:46.760-08:002010-02-11T11:19:46.760-08:00Father Hart:
Thank you for your post. It is very...Father Hart:<br /><br />Thank you for your post. It is very instructive and edifying to have these arguments laid out and rebutted in such clear form. Any theological education I may have has been self-taught, so I cannot hope to add anything to that which has been already said. I have not, myself, ever doubted the validity of Anglican orders and thought the Roman arguments to the contrary were spurious and mean-spirited. At best they are merely political arguments meant to detract from the possibility of any valid church other than Rome.<br /><br />As far as the Eucharist being a sacrifice I have believed it to be so only in the sense that through it I am made present at that one true sacrifice which took place on Calvary over two thousand years ago. The man who stands before me offering the Eucharist is a priest in the sense that Christ has conferred His own priesthood upon that man through apostolic succession, and the one offering the Eucharist to the Father is Christ. So we may be representing (presenting again) the Last Supper, but we are not representing the Sacrifice of Calvary. We are made present at Calvary through anamnesis; “Do this in remembrance of Me.”<br /><br />In Christ,<br />CarterCarterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14325547071171699272noreply@blogger.com