{"id":1486,"date":"2005-10-06T08:38:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-06T14:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2005\/10\/06\/source-and-summit\/"},"modified":"2005-10-06T08:38:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-06T14:38:00","slug":"source-and-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2005\/10\/06\/source-and-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Source and Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Taking part in the eucharistic sacrifice, which is the fount and apex of the whole Christian life, they offer the Divine Victim to God, and offer themselves along with It.&#8221; (paragraph 11)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vatican.va\/archive\/hist_councils\/ii_vatican_council\/documents\/vat-ii_const_19641121_lumen-gentium_en.html\">Lumen Gentium<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, the oft-used phrase &#8220;source and summit&#8221; or &#8220;font and apex&#8221; &#8211; what is this we refer to, the Eucharist (i.e. the consecrated host)?  No, rather, the <b>eucharistic sacrifice<\/b>.  The sacrifice of thanksgiving, the Mass.  The ritual action, not the noun.  The ritual action that gathers, breaks open (Christ present in Gospel, and bread\/wine become body\/blood) shares, and sends.  The celebration that calls us to &#8220;Participation, Community, and Mission.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Just an observation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">&#8220;Taking part in the eucharistic sacrifice, which is the fount and apex of the whole Christian life, they offer the Divine Victim to God, and offer themselves along with It.&#8221; (paragraph 11) Lumen Gentium So, the oft-used phrase &#8220;source and summit&#8221; or &#8220;font and apex&#8221; &#8211; what is this we refer to, the Eucharist (i.e.&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2005\/10\/06\/source-and-summit\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}