The 8th day is the new day, the day of resurrection. The story of Sacred Scripture is the story of the 8th day, the new day. St. Paul stated that the letter kills, but the spirit brings life, and it is in spirit and truth that we worship Jesus Christ (2 Corinthians 3:4). All of the old covenants, from Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, to David could only bring death. They were all incomplete. The new covenant in the blood of Christ (John 6:53-58) is the only way to enjoy the eternal participation in the divine life of God. Through the Word Eternal we approach God and dare to call him "Abba, Father", and in the 8th day we place all of our hope.
The Fathers saw the 8th day in the way in which it transcends time and space (the cosmos). Our worship is worship towards our natural end - eternal glory with the Father in heaven. Christ descends so that we may ascend to God. This is called divine accommodation. This is a blog of hope, of hope in our final and ultimate home and is written in light of that truth. What ever we suffer through today, we suffer in hope because it is in our sufferings that we unite ourselves to the cross of Christ and participate in his redemption (Col 1:24).
I hope to explore Catholic and secular news as well as work through the works of the Catholic Church in order to find that hope to which we cling.
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- Adam Janke
- Following a Catholic Biblical worldview through the eyes of a convert, Director of Religious Education, and MA student at Franciscan University (FUS) in light of the 8th day.
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"The liturgy is a complexus of the signs of things sacred, spiritual, invisible; signs instituted by Christ or by the Church, efficacious, each in its own way, of that which they signify; by which signs God, through Christ the Head, and in the presence of the Holy Spirit, sanctifies the Church, and the Church as a body, in the presence of hte Holy Spirit, uniting herself to Christ her Head and Priest, through Him renders her worship to God." Or put more precisely, "the liturgy is the complexus of the efficacious signs of the Church's sanctification and of her worship." - Theological Dimensions of the Liturgy
What about Sunday, the "holiday"? People are even missing the point of the "holiday"... should we really add an 8th day on top? :P
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- Kin
Sunday is the first and the eighth day old friend. :) Think about it.
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