"Consequently, deliberately to exclude all acts of <latria> from the Eucharist, would be to refuse to acknowledge the Incarnation or Jesus Christ coming in the flesh. And, St. John says about "men who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh" that "such is the antichrist" (2 John 1:7) and his "spirit" is "already in the world" (1 John 4:3). These are the "weeds" which the enemy has …More
"Consequently, deliberately to exclude all acts of <latria> from the Eucharist, would be to refuse to acknowledge the Incarnation or Jesus Christ coming in the flesh. And, St. John says about "men who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh" that "such is the antichrist" (2 John 1:7) and his "spirit" is "already in the world" (1 John 4:3). These are the "weeds" which the enemy has sown among the "wheat" (Matt. 13:25). They make a "pretense" of being Christian by pretending to "belong to us," but soon they will leave and we will see that "none of them was ours" (1 John 2:18-19).[62] www.ewtn.com/library/LITURGY/KNEELING.TXT
