Are Sacraments Narrow? by Mark Shea
1. Ludwig's problem is that he does not believe grace in in the sacraments
2. What the Church is not thinking about when it comes to sacramentality is is denying God's universal love and his will.
3. What the Church thinks about when it comes to "sacramentality" is for salvation of each person under God.
4. God reveals and gives to each individual human being his offering grace by giving us the Sacraments to guide us and to live by and is required for our salvation.
5. The Christian doctrine that is the foundation for the sacraments is Jesus Christ himself.
6. The goals of modern spirituality tells us God is a sort of extended ether in the cosmos that He would
never sully himself with the crudeness of matter.
7. The Christian repudiation of such spiritual snobbery is God likes matter and at the beginning of the creation story he declared it as good
8. “But that was so that he could
put this gross body of flesh to death on the Cross and revert back to pure spirituality,
wasn’t it?” I believe this means that the reason why Jesus was crucified and died was for his people to live on his earth and to live spiritually.
9. “That is why the
sacramental worldview sees more than just a symbol in a sacrament.” I believe this means that God is not just present through the Sacraments but He can work in other ways in our lives.
10. G.K. Charleston
said that their is a sacred presence in the Eucharist because Jesus suffered and died so we can live on earth.
11. Grace is the love and kindness from God that seeks us out even when we have nothing to offer in return.
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