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It's noteworthy that while that Sunday's Gospel is verses 1-15, Fr. Hewko looks to the end of the chapter and most of his preaching is in regards to the discourse that happens 20 or more verses later in the same chapter of St. John.
The Bread of Life discourse is very powerful. Fr. mentions here something very useful to know, and that is that many of the Modernists in the past 100 years preached that these verses of St. John must have been his own enthusiastic compositions, and the product of his meditations (they mean to say fantasy or imagination but they don't want to sound too extreme --- someone could stand up and call them a heretic, because that has happened before in history). They said that Our Lord never literally said that I am the bread of life, or that he who eats my body and drinks my blood shall have life in him and I will raise him up on the last day, and all that stuff. These were the products of St. John's pious contemplation of events that had occurred 50 or more years previously.
For a Modernist, all truth is relative, and subject to interpretation. Everything is in flux, and there is nothing that does not change. Therefore, even if Our Lord HAD said these things, what St. John wrote would have been different because it had been so many years in between, and things change over time.
It's instructive to see how a Modernist's view of one topic affects his thinking and ties together with the synthesis of all heresies.
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Topic: Fr. D. Hewko - sermon, Post Falls, March 30th, 2014 (Read 409 times)