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Hey di pa ako naka-upload at nag-aayos pa ako ng wireless system dito sa theo house. tomorrow wednesday sure may summary na ako sa clases. nagkalat din kasi mga notes.. sign na ng katamaran. heheheh

STATEMENTS

1. We can trust the gospels and New Testament as a clear intention of Jesus in the foundation of the church.
2. We cannot say that Jesus left a detailed BLUE PRINT for the church. NO BLUE PRINT ECCLESSIOLOGY. He did not give Peter details, plans, description of what was going to happen
3. The element of certainty and the assurance of being faithful in the HS.
4. We can expect to have unity and diversity in the church. the HS will guard that unity and diversity.

ACTS 15
1. A new question arises in the church
2. The church leaders come together
3. A decision is reached

Who makes the decision? (28)
The Holy Spirit and US

Church leadership is not something that is going to be dropped from heaven but relying as both human and the power of the HS (is the way the church is kept in continuity in XT)

Revelation - It is closed, Jesus is the definitive revelation but it is continuing

We have the revelation but how are we gonna live them out

How do we understand how all of the churches from one church?
LG 23 The universal church is the corpus ecclesiam
-the body of the churches
and yet the churches form a unity and form a one body.

Diagram

What are we?
-we exist in between time
-a church "in via"
(on the way, on the journey, we are a pilgrim church... journeying for the second coming)
-if you want to understand.. you have to know its origin and where it is going
- the church is to be LUMEN GENTIUM - light to the peoples
-ad gentes (going to the people, seeing the people)
-the church is sacrament of salvation (visible sign of an invisible grace)

How are we to be LG? - we are to be a community for the kingdom

WHO ARE WE? - Community of Christ's disciples in the world (Avery Dules)

SIMUL JUSTUS ET PECCATOR (luther)

The whole reality in Pauline Theology is what we call MYSTERION
-God's loving plan for his people

pg. 17 Renewal of Vat II Ecclessiology
pg. 29 Trinitarian Ecclesiology of Vat II

DID JESUS FOUND THE CHURCH>?

Hans Kung article ....
pg 72 what is common ground....

1. IN THE PREACHING PERIOD, DURING HIS LIFETIME, JESUS DID NOT FOUND THE CHURCH. HE WAS RUNNING IT

pg. 73 The Gospels do not report....

5 lines bottom ...not until Jesus is risen...... a post easter phenomenon.

pg. 74 line 4 The easy solution... ..... does not work.

2. IN THE PREACHING PERIOD, JESUS LAID THE FOUNDATIONS FOR THE EMERGENCE OF A POST RESURRECTION CHURCH.
-he gave the model on what to do as church

3. PRE-EASTER MEN NOT YET BELIEVING IN THE RESURRECTION
-the church exist from the time of faith in the resurrection

As soon as those.... ... the church then come into existence.
3 lines bottom - Church exist.... given by God .... work by God

pg.75 line 2 this phrase on on God... primitive churcj.... laos (laity)

Summary 4. the .. of the church doesnt rely... but in active ......Spirit.

Before the last paragraph 7 lines up
-not any particular words.... has ultimate... his teachings...
entire Xhristian event.... constitute

6. Pentecost

-link back to last supper
-already in it Christ's promise the gift of the HS (Jn 15:26)
16:7 - unless I go...
16:13 - when the spirit...

WHAT HAPPENS AT PENTECOST
1. There is a full comprehension of Jesus' mission, the church, a full comprehension of who Jesus is because the disciples will finally get the total picture
-if one has to become a community that would preach the good news, you have to understand it in the resurrection and pentecost
-enables the apostles to comprehend fully

2. They were given the power to enable them to proclaim
- to be fearless, bold, audatious, strong witnesses

parrhesia (greek) - boldness, audacity, conviction
Pentecost makes the disciples bold witness, fearless witnesses

1. Full understanding of the mission of Jesus
2. Effective power to go out to proclaim

How does MC # 33 say about Pentecost

33. The Church which He founded by His Blood, He strengthened on the Day of Pentecost by a special power, given from heaven. For, having solemnly installed in his exalted office him whom He had already nominated as His Vicar, He had ascended into Heaven; and sitting now at the right hand of the Father He wished to make known and proclaim His Spouse through the visible coming of the Holy Spirit with the sound of a mighty wind and tongues of fire.[41] For just as He Himself when He began to preach was made known by His Eternal Father through the Holy Spirit descending and remaining on Him in the form of a dove, [42] so likewise, as the Apostles were about to enter upon their ministry of preaching, Christ our Lord sent the Holy Spirit down from Heaven, to touch them with tongues of fire and to point out, as by the finger of God, the supernatural mission and office of the Church.

IMAGES
Acts 1:14
-the church at prayer
-apostles gathered together with Mary awaiting for the coming of the spirit
-ECCLESSIA ORANS
- the praying church
- missionary nature of the church
- the disciples with Mary that go into mission

5. Death and Resurrection

- is the actualization of what happens in symbolic form in the last supper and the Eucharist
-Christ paschal event
-(Johanine) DOXA
- glorification of Christ

lift up - on the cross
- glory of resurrection
-Christ blood seal a new covenant
-the LUTRON, the RANSOM

Mystici Corporis
-primary document previous to Vatican II
-1943 Encyclical of Pius XII
- Mystical Body of Christ
-about the church, eucharist
-#30 -31

4. The Last Supper

In the Sacred Scriptures, there are Institution Narratives (IN) in the Gospels
- Jesus establishes the Eucharist
-Explicitly are found
Mt 26:26-29
Mk 14:22-25
Lk 22:14-20
- in John there is no institution narrative
-however the Last Supper discourse replaces the institution narratives
-5 full chapters 13 to 17


COVENANT - MEMORIAL - COMMUNITY

COVENANT
- in the IN
, the word COVENANT appears as part of the narratives and taken over into our Eucharistic Celebrations... "this is the cup of my blood, the new and everlasting covenant....

-TWO KEY ELEMENTS:
1. terms of the covenant
word of God
commandment
commitment
2. Sacrificial shedding of blood to seal the covenant

In Exodus 19:3-8 Moses sets up before the asembly, reach out the terms of the covenant, and the promise goes further...
"you will be my people and I will be your God."

Ex 24:3-8 Moses takes the big bowl of blood and on the altar set up on a pillar, he sprinkles on the altar and the people, sementing the covenant

Covenant - law/terms
- blood

- the Law of the Covenant is found in John 15:17 - the LAw of love. "Love one another as I have loved you."
-"you must love as I have loved you."

AS I

Blood - the new covenant is no longer in the blood of goats, its already in the blood of Christ
-we are the new and people of God

"THE CHURCH MAKES THE EUCHARIST AND THE EUCHARIST MAKES THE CHURCH."

MEMORIAL
-something to be repeated, remembered
-1 Cor 11:23-26
this is what i received from the Lord and now i pass it on to you
-remembering is an inadequate word
- ANAMNESIS
- remembering something that makes it actually presence
- as we remember the bread and wine here present becomes the reality
- in the process of remembering it becomes a reality

Represent - RE-PRESENT, make present again the acts that we are describing
- Jesus words have a vision that this will be a continous action that the community will do
- meet in their homes in a special meal
- this meal began to differentiate (Acts 2:42-47) from the Jews
- remember and keep alive the meaning

Eucharist - is always a sacrament in 3 tenses
- past, present, and future
- we remeber, but it becomes a present reality in our life and this is a fortasting promise for what is to come

"Christ ahs died, Christ is risen, Christ will come again."

"the people of God makes the eucharist and the eucharist makes the people of God.

RE MEMBER - Re member
- we are making members of the church
- a process of incorporating us again in this sacred act that we go through

WE ARE A RE-MEMBERING PEOPLE

Feullet (french Biblical Exegete)
- John 17
- the preistly prayer of Christ

- the gift of ordination is to precisely to have an officially designated person in the church whose task is to remember
- to call people to remember most specifically to call people to remember Christ action for us.


COMMUNITY
-OT roots
-Qehal (people summoned by God)
-when translated to Greek:

ek-kaleo
ek -meaning OUT
Kaleo meaning to call

ek-kaleo therefore means - to acll out (from all the places, you are summoned, you will be my special people)
-process of invitation and summoning
-become ekkleosia
-and in LAtin ECCLESIA
- in the modern romance became IGLESI (spanish) and L'eglise (French)

WHO is CHURCH - PEOPLE CALLED OUT TO BECOME A COMMUNITY THAT HEAR THE WORD OF GOD AND RESPOND THE COVENANT

Infallability

I. Description:
-another way of saying it is INDEFECTABILITY understood it as a gift to the entire church
-the gift promised by Christ means IMMUNITY from ERROR
-a gift of the Holy Spirit, assisting the part apostolic teaching church in knowing and teaching Christ revelation w/o error
-the church continues to believe and teach w/o error those truths necessary for slavation

HS... CHURCH... know/teach... TRUTH.. SALVATION

- she's assured that she will be a faithful witness
-its a misconception that the church is not going to commit a mistake, never be deficient in her judgement
e.g. slavery, usuary, just war

II. Church Teaching / Reflections
The term first emerged in Medieval Theology
-there was some kind of infalliability
-the definite teaching comes in Vat 1 specifically in the document Poster Aeternus July 18, 1870

Vat II said:
- the Roman Pontiff excercise his authority when he (1) speaks EX CATHEDRA (from the chair, actinga s supreme shepherd of the flock, father, and teacher) and (2) when he DEFINES A SPECIFIC TEACHING / DOCTRINE and (3) for ALL CATHOLICS to BELIEVE

The word doesnt say that the Pope is infalliable
The gift given to church, that assure is not in the person of the pope

III. Clarifications

"EXERCISES" / Vat 1 did not explain / gave clear definition of infalliability but clearly said it is a an endowment of the entire church

IV. Vat II Lumen Gentium Nov. 21, 1964 # 25
- promise to the church, resides who in the body of the bishops when that body decides with the successor of Peter
-when the college of bishops with the Pope in 2 Form

1. If eccumenical Council
2. When disperesed arround the world but have a unity among themselves with peter teaching a matter of faith and morals

EXERCISED only in the ASSUMPTION of MARY (nov. 1, 1950) after VAt I

Immaculate Conception - 1854