Pange Lingua Gloriosi Corporis Mysterium

[struggle4progress]

Strike, tongue, the mystery
of the Glorious Body:
and of the Precious Blood,
the price which the King,
the noble Fruit of the Womb,
poured out for the nations ...

In the night of that final Supper,
reclining with His brothers,
He carries out the full Law
with the food of the Law.
He gives himself as Food to the Twelve
with His own Hands.

The Incarnate Word
makes true bread Flesh by a Word,
and makes wine the Blood of Christ.
And if the senses are not enough
to strengthen the sincere heart,
faith alone shall suffice.

So, then, we venerate
the seen Sacrament,
and the old dispensation
gives way to a new rite.
Faith, being superior,
strengthens the inadequate senses.

To the Begetter and the Begotten,
praise and rejoicing;
health, to Them, honour, strength too,
and blessing.
And, to the Proceeder from the Others,
be like praise.
Amen, Alleluia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pange_Lingua_Gloriosi_Corporis_Mysterium

[izquierdista]

1. Dominus vobiscum et cum spiritu two oh

Won't you eat my sleazy pancakes just for saintly Alfonzo?

[pennylane100]

2. On the other hand

The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again. But man is no abstract being squatting outside the world. Man is the world of man – state, society. This state and this society produce religion, which is an inverted consciousness of the world, because they are an inverted world. Religion is the general theory of this world, its encyclopaedic compendium, its logic in popular form, its spiritual point d’honneur, its enthusiasm, its moral sanction, its solemn complement, and its universal basis of consolation and justification. It is the fantastic realization of the human essence since the human essence has not acquired any true reality. The struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion.

Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.[1]

[stopbush]

3. The concept of a blood sacrifice is sick and disgusting. Real caveman think.

I look forward to the day that our species outgrows the need for this make believe shit which is in equal parts ghoulish and childish.

[trotsky]

4. It is really quite impressive, when you think about it.

The marketing power of Christianity. I mean, here you have even some of the most considerate, compassionate liberals who oppose all violence and torture, yet they embrace and adulate the blood sacrifice of Jesus - which was only necessary because their god couldn't forgive their sins without it.

SAY WHAT? Yep.