Posted on 09/30/2016 2:50:58 PM PDT by NYer
From Catholic New York:
The Holy Eucharist was stolen early last week from Holy Trinity Church on Manhattans Upper West Side.
The tabernacle door was reportedly vandalized and forced open and the Eucharist was removed what is believed to be sometime early Monday morning, Sept. 19, according to Msgr. Thomas Sandi, the pastor.
Msgr. Sandi made the discovery when opening the church for 9 a.m. daily Mass that same day. He reported the incident to police, and at press time was awaiting results of their investigation. The tabernacle door is currently being repaired.
On behalf of Cardinal Dolan, Auxiliary Bishop John OHara, episcopal vicar of Staten Island and South, East and West Manhattan, presided at Sunday morning Masses at Holy Trinity on Sept. 25.
After introducing the bishop to his parishioners before the 9:30 a.m. liturgy, Msgr. Sandi explained the purpose of the bishops visit to the church.
Hes come to comfort us and to support us, Msgr. Sandi said.
Desecration of the Eucharist is a serious matter, the pastor said. (The Church teaches that the Blessed Sacrament is the Body and Blood of Christ.)
We dont want to scare anybody, Msgr. Sandi said. We believe that this robbery was just that.
The pastor encouraged the people to pray about the incident. We ask you to be calm, and trust in God.
Bishop OHara blessed the tabernacle, sanctuary and church nave with holy water.
Cardinal Dolan knows of your suffering, Bishop OHara said in his remarks to the congregation. He noted that the cardinals prayers and greetings to them accompanied him on his visit.
It’s to use in a Satanic mass. Wasn’t there one being planned?
The Lord has quite a repertoire. He can change it back if he wants to. I wouldn’t worry about it too much.
This church is in my neighborhood. I think of it as the striped church.
Regards
It’s all good. Reading through the thread, I understand how serious this is to you all.
Over my pay grade. Ask a Priest.
Thank you, and I’m doing well, other than a bit of seasonal sneezing and dripping. Hope you’re well, too!
As to your prior question, at the Last Supper, Jesus Christ took bread and wine, said the words of consecration: This is My Body. This is My Blood. He then told us to: Do this in memory of Me. We don't "let" the miscreants "think" they have captured Jesus and can do all manner of evil to Him. That is the necessary implication of Jesus Christ's institution of the Sacrament of the Altar. Take up your disagreements with Him.
Once consecrated, the Holy Eucharist becomes the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ. As God, Jesus Christ is omnipotent but that does not mean that He MUST exercise His power as you expect or demand or desire. He could, no doubt, come to earth, don the uniform of my beloved New York Yankees and be the perfect pitcher and perfect hitter and perfect fielder and perfect runner but He does not. Not only that but, unlike Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford, Yogi Berra, Reggie Jackson, Mariano Rivera and now Gary Sanchez, He would not have to submit to the ravages of age.
Your question is really threefold. He is never powerless to do anything that is not a contradiction in terms. Some of the usual ritual wisecracks of the non-believers (I certainly recognize you as a believer if not sharing each nuance of Catholic theology) include: "Can God make a boulder too heavy for God to push uphill?" The boulder too heavy, etc., is the fallacy in the question that renders the question meaningless. The most brilliant and powerful mere human being who ever lived cannot successfully overcome God. The creature is not greater than the Creator. If God sees fit not to interfere with a man's determination to sin, that does not mean that the man has triumphed over God.
May God bless you and yours!
Imagine tho, if God intended this to happen. That when this robber eats all the consecrated Eucharists, he becomes so filled with the Holy Spirit that he casts off his robbing ways, repents, turns himself in, and becomes a Priest. :)
The tabernacle is where we keep our greatest Treasure but many of the underclass utterly fail to understand that the Treasure cannot be fenced or converted to drug money. By comparison with the Treasure, gold and money are not much at all.
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