Sacramental Living .... Ray Harris

Ray Harris is the Training Principal, St. John’s CFOT (Canada), he has written a piece on Sacramental Living (here) which gives a look at TSA and the Sacraments. (Thanks Steve)

Two points of interest for me:

He talks of "traditioning a text" for instance New Testament scholar Luke Timothy Johnson’s comments:
“The account of Jesus’ last meal with his disciples has had such an obvious and overwhelming importance for the Christian community…. [However,] Christian liturgical practice is not based directly on this text but rather on a complex development of ritual traditions that look back to the Gospels only for legitimation after the fact.”
In other words through constant reflection the church has developed their implications for sacraments.

I also found Lars Lydholm's observation interesting:
“at a time where the discussion of the two sacramental signs [baptism and the Eucharist] threatened to ‘block the way’ to the one true sacrament—Jesus Christ―the Army ceased practising the two sacramental signs…. But it never stopped proclaiming and giving witness in word and deed to God’s one true sacrament—Jesus Christ.”
I didn't want to lose the article!

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