BLESSED
SACRILEGE OF THE ALTAR
Roman Catholicism says the Blessed Eucharist or the Mass
is an act of worship wherein the bread and wine are turned
by the priest, who uses the power of God, into the body and blood of Jesus Christ
who is true God and true man.
The altar of modern
Catholicism is a place of sacrilege and hence sacrilege that is blessed for the
Church has no repentance and makes virtue out of its practice.
The Catholic Church likes
to expose the communion wafer and put it on display so that the people can come
and look at it, adore it and pray to it as if it were God. It is kept in tabernacles for the worship of
the people.
Jesus did not say at the
Last Supper that we are to eat and adore or just adore the bread but that we
are to eat it. To this it might be
objected that if it is Jesus it should be adored. Yes but that does not imply it would be
treated with the extra devotion and ceremony that Catholics make.
The priest can change the
bread into his god when he visits the sick.
Providing the Eucharist for the sick is an excuse for keeping it in
tabernacles.
When all we see is bread
it is easy to forget about Jesus and adore what looks like bread. When you are looking at the bread you are
often forgetting to be aware of God. You
can love a person’s looks and forget even that it is a person you are looking
at. Prayer is awareness of God and
nothing else. That is why the only true
form of prayer is just being aware of the presence of God and intending to be
one with him. Words remove that
awareness because you cannot concentrate on saying, “Jesus be
praised,” and on the divine presence at the same time. In between the words yes but not when you are
voicing the words. Vocal prayer is
actually sinful. It is idolatry to pray
with a picture of God or Jesus or Mary in your mind. It is as much adoring an image as would adoring a statue be.
Praying to the blessed sacrament betrays ignorance of spirituality. It is no use saying that Jesus accepted
worship when he was on earth because that was not real worship even though he
might have accepted it as a start on the way to higher things. Bowing or praying to Jesus is not worship
because only being aware that he is with you is. You could say it was worship but not literal
worship. It was just emotional stuff
like being grateful or emotionally loving.
Jesus does not want to be
adored with incense and candles any more.
He permitted the woman to anoint his feet with expensive oil though selling the oil for the
poor would have been a better idea. Judas
pointed out that the oil should have been sold for the poor. But Jesus
said that it was preparation for burial and he was allowing this extravagance
just once for the poor would still need help after he was gone meaning that
after that we can sell oil for the benefit of the poor. He does not want incense any more or candles
when he said that about the oil.
God would not let Moses
see his face because he hated idolatry – which proves that God would never become
man. Read Exodus 33. Moses was unlikely to commit that sin unlike
everybody that has been born since but God still would not take a chance. This episode proves that the Catholic rites
of adoration for the Eucharist are pagan.
It also proves that Jesus Christ would not have turned bread and wine
into his own body and blood for it would be adoring an image not God even
though God is in that image. We don't see him.
As far as we are concerned we see bread. You don’t
need helps to prayer in the form of exposed communion wafers or images for if
prayer is hard for you and you try it is as good a prayer as any for God
rewards effort not success. The helps
actually reduce or ruin merit and God would not set up anything that would lead
to that.
Tabernacles can be robbed and wafers can decay over being kept or displayed too long. Jesus would not suffer such indignities if he was eaten at Mass and nothing left over. It is wrong to have them and have these things occurring when they are not needed.
The doctrine that the bread is really a human being is very hard for people to believe and very hard to defend. It would be simpler to take the bread as a symbol of Jesus that you take to get grace from God that makes you closer to Jesus. If somebody is not sure if the bread is the body then in so far as they are not sure they are committing idolatry EVEN IF THE BREAD IS THE BODY OF JESUS. If they are not sure or not very sure, then they are guilty of intending to worship bread. Even pagan idolaters didn't go that far. They didn't adore images but the god they thought lived in the image or who had turned into the image.
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BIBLE QUOTATIONS FROM:
The Amplified Bible
Friday, 07 December 2007