While they were eating, Jesus took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to his disciples, saying, "Take and eat; this is my body" --Matt 26:26.
In order to appreciate the value of the Real Presence in the spiritual life, we must go back in spirit to the event described by St. John when our Lord, after He had worked the miracle of the multiplication of the loaves and fishes, made the solemn promise of the Eucharist. "I am the Bread of Life," Christ declared on that occasion. "He who comes to me will never be hungry. He who believes in me will never thirst. But, as I have told you, you can see me and still you do not believe. All that the Father gives me will come to me and whoever comes to me, I shall not turn him away because I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but to do the will of the one who sent me. Now the will of him who sent me is that I should lose nothing of all that he has given to me and that I should raise it up on the last day. Yes, it is my Father's will that whoever sees the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life and that I shall raise him up on the last day" --Fr. John Hardon, S.J.
I have included a letter my husband received from Mother Teresa of Calcutta. A courageous soul for Christ (and current blessed of the Church), she suggested the readings of Fr. J. Hardon.
To dismiss the saints (and all miracles worked through them), is curious. One can only surmise that if you didn't feel they happened through Christ, then they must have happened through Satan, because
they surely *did* happen. And how will you explain your disrespect (for instance, referring to Fr. John Hardon as "Johnny Hardon") of Christ's priests, blesseds, and saints, when you come to greet Him?
And how will you explain your disrespect (for instance, referring to Fr. John Hardon as "Johnny Hardon") of Christ's priests, blesseds, and saints, when you come to greet Him?I'm counting on the word of God to be completely true...In which case, Jesus Christ doesn't have any priests in the church...
I don't expect to see too many of your priests in Heaven...
Your religion has for itself claimed to take over the covenant promised to Israel by God...As a result, the scriptures have become a complete mystery to you...Without knowing that God still has His covenant with the Jews, to be fulfilled in short order, all you can get out of scripture is the history in it...
Rejecting the epistles of Paul that were God breathed just as the Gospels, you have rejected the way of salvation for sinners...
You folks admittedly plan on living thru the Great Tribulation (those that believe in it) and facing your Judgment at the Great White Throne Judgment...
There will be no Christians at that Judgment...Christians are judged the moment they die and they are judged 'just'...
While you are living on Earth during the Tribulation, the church, the Espoused Bride of Christ will be getting married...
They tell you the book of Revelation is a metaphor and an allegory...But they can't tell you what it represents...That ought to tell you something...
No, I don't fear setting your priests straight in the sight of God...They are the ones that need to fear...