I created a rough draft of this post using voice to text and on a whim decided to ask ChatGPT to make it sound like Shakespeare. I was rather amused by the result so I’ve decided to leave it this way. A Tale of Cheesecloth Hark! If thou hast ever partaken in the services of ClearPlay or VidAngel, thou knowest well their merit in filtering that which thou wouldst rather not see or hear in film and show. Yet, lo, there lies a grievous fault in their design—thou art not permitted to upload thy own filters. Should thou desire to shield thine eyes from certain scenes, or stop thine ears against foul speech, thou must needs wait upon their servants to enact such changes. A waste, methinks, for what good might be had, if all could craft and share filters for the media they watch! ...
Eucharist ~ Sources
Introduction This post will be on-going attempt to centralize the quotations I’ve found about the Eucharist, particularly in Early Church authors. Quotations Saint Irenaeus, Against Heresies Book 4, Chapter 17, Paragraph 5 Again, giving directions to His disciples to offer to God the first-fruits of His own, created things–not as if He stood in need of them, but that they might be themselves neither unfruitful nor ungrateful–He took that created thing, bread, and gave thanks, and said, “This is My body.” (Matthew 26:26-26:29) And the cup likewise, which is part of that creation to which we belong, He confessed to be His blood, and taught the new oblation of the new covenant; which the Church receiving from the apostles, offers to God throughout all the world, to Him who gives us as the means of subsistence the first-fruits of His own gifts in the New Testament, concerning which Malachi, among the twelve prophets, thus spoke beforehand: “I have no pleasure in you, saith the Lord Omnipotent, and I will not accept sacrifice at your hands. For from the rising of the sun, unto the going down [of the same], My name is glorified among the Gentiles, and in every place incense is offered to My name, and a pure sacrifice; for great is My name among the Gentiles, saith the Lord Omnipotent;” (Malachi 1:10-1:11) –indicating in the plainest manner, by these words, that the former people [the Jews] shall indeed cease to make offerings to God, but that in every place sacrifice shall be offered to Him, and that a pure one; and His name is glorified among the Gentiles. ...