{"id":24727,"date":"2009-06-18T06:30:56","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T10:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/06\/the-eucharistic-sacrifice-unit\/"},"modified":"2009-06-18T06:30:56","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T10:30:56","slug":"the-eucharistic-sacrifice-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/06\/the-eucharistic-sacrifice-unit\/","title":{"rendered":"The Eucharistic sacrifice unites us with heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\"><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/20th_07_hoc_est.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20th_07_hoc_est.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/20th_07_hoc_est-thumb-250x167.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"167\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a><\/span>It is especially in the sacred liturgy that our <b>union<br \/>\nwith the heavenly Church is best realized<\/b>; in the liturgy, through the<br \/>\nsacramental signs, the power of the Holy Spirit acts on us, and with community<br \/>\nrejoicing we celebrate together the praise of the divine majesty, when all<br \/>\nthose of every tribe and tongue and people and nation (cf. Apoc. 5:9) who<br \/>\nhave been redeemed by the blood of Christ and gathered together into one Church<br \/>\nglorify, in one common song of praise, the one and triune God. <b>When, then, we<br \/>\ncelebrate the Eucharistic sacrifice we are most closely united to the worship<br \/>\nof the heavenly Church<\/b>; when in the fellowship of communion we honor and<br \/>\nremember the glorious Mary ever virgin, St. Joseph, the holy apostles and<br \/>\nmartyrs and all the saints.<font class=\"Apple-style-span\" face=\"arial, helvetica, hirakakupro-w3, osaka, 'ms pgothic', sans-serif\" size=\"3\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 13px;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/font>(<i>Lumen gentium<\/i>, 48)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is especially in the sacred liturgy that our union with the heavenly Church is best realized; in the liturgy, through the sacramental signs, the power of the Holy Spirit acts on us, and with community rejoicing we celebrate together the praise of the divine majesty, when all those of every tribe and tongue and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/06\/the-eucharistic-sacrifice-unit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Eucharistic sacrifice unites us with heaven<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,34],"tags":[1713,2097],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24727"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}