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to mystic institute.org. So first, our disposition should be a readiness to accept everything

that the church, bishops, popes, councils teach as true. This is a necessary disposition based on the faith and confidence we have

that the holy, not that these guys are great because some may be great and some aren't,

but because the Holy Spirit is guiding the church and will preserve her intact until the end of time.

As Jesus says in Matthew 16, you're Peter on this rock, I'll build my church, the gates

of hell will not prevail upon her.

Okay.

So the church is going to last till the end.

However, when they teach in union with him, when they teach what has been handed on publicly,

public revelation, by the way, ends, it's not ongoing. It ends with

the death of the last apostle, John. So at that point, sacred scripture, sacred tradition

is just, has to be, the content of that, has to be faithfully adhered to and passed on,

not added to and not subtracted from. Explained, sure, transubstantiation, a new term, right, in Middle Ages

and eventually gets dogmatized at Trent in the 16th century.

And yet it's a new term explaining something always believed

that Jesus's body, blood, soul, and divinities in the Eucharist.

Today's Feast of St. Ignatius of Antioch,

whose letters were all about Christ being really present in the Eucharist.

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