"Our earthly liturgies must be celebrations full of beauty and power: Feasts of the Father who created us—that is why the gifts of the earth play such a great part: the bread, the wine, oil and light, incense, sacred music, and splendid colors. Feasts of the Son who redeemed us—that is why we rejoice in our liberation, breathe deeply in listening to the Word, and are strengthened in eating the Eucharistic Gifts. Feasts of the Holy Spirit who lives in us—that is why there is a wealth of consolation, knowledge, courage, strength, and blessing that flows from these sacred assemblies." unknown source possibly YOUCAT Mal.1.11 For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith theLord of hosts.

Saturday, March 2, 2013

sin covering explanation

from comment 69 here http://www.calledtocommunion.com/2013/01/holy-church-finding-jesus-as-a-reverted-catholic-a-testimonial-response-to-chris-castaldo/#comment-47048

 Sin-covering is one way of describing what takes place at justification, because the guilt and eternal punishment due to all our past sins are removed. Man is a temporal being, and we do not escape from our past merely by its being past. Our past eternally remains our past, our history. Justification does not make those past sins never to have happened. They are covered, as it were, through our union with Christ in His satisfactory sacrifice, by which something more pleasing to God than all our sins are displeasing is offered to the Father. But justification-as-translation does effect an immediate *present* transformation.
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