When you wanna spend time with Jesus in church but you can’t bc it’s a weekday and then you remember you’re not protestant anymore and Adoration is a thing
wensday adoration is the BEST! Especially when coupled with Thursaday Morning Mass
When you’re fundamentalist and take literal the concept of “where two or more are gathered”:
Catholics also take those words very literally!
But there is nothing quite like sitting in the literal, physical Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist 💙
“Dear friends, if you learn to discover Jesus in the Eucharist, you will also know how to discover Him in your brothers and sisters, particularly the very poor.”
Feast of The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
The Blessed Virgin Mary says: “Praise be to Jesus.”
“Dear children, today the Father sends Me on the day which
commemorates My Presentation in the Temple. I come to give thanks for
the Remnant Faithful. I encourage you to continue to persevere in the
Truth of the Tradition of Faith. Do not be tricked into believing in
‘new theologies’ which My Jesus would never agree with.”
“You are called apart to defend the Truths of Tradition. Defend the
Truth of My Son’s Real Presence in the Blessed Sacrament. He is so
affected by indifference and disbelief. Be courageous. Do not fear the
erroneous opinions of others. Remember, I am your Protectress of your
Faith. I am the Matriarch of the Remnant Faithful. Call upon Me when
human strength and determination are not enough.”
Read 2 Thessalonians 2:13-15+
But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren
beloved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning to be
saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth. To
this he called you through our gospel, so that you may obtain the glory
of our Lord Jesus Christ. So then, brethren, stand firm and hold to the
traditions which you were taught by us, either by word of mouth or by
letter.
Read 2 Timothy 4:1-5+
I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus who is to
judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:
preach the word, be urgent in season and out of season, convince,
rebuke, and exhort, be unfailing in patience and in teaching. For the
time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having
itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their
own likings, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander
into myths. As for you, always be steady, endure suffering, do the work
of an evangelist, fulfil your ministry.
+Scripture verses asked to be read by Blessed Virgin Mary. (Please
note: all Scripture given by Heaven refers to the Bible used by the
visionary. Ignatius Press – Holy Bible – Revised Standard Version –
Second Catholic Edition.)
If Christ didn’t want us to eat His flesh in the appearance of bread, then why was He born in a city called House of Bread and laid in a food trough?
If He didn’t want that, why would He have said that He is the bread from heaven and that His flesh is truly food and that we must eat it? (And if He meant that as a metaphor, why didn’t He correct everyone when they all took it literally?)
If He didn’t want that, then why did He offer Himself as the Lamb of God for the sacrifice for our sins in the same way the Old Testament Jews offered a lamb in sacrifice, a lamb which they were required to eat the flesh of?
If He didn’t want that, why did He say, “This is my body, which is given for you” at the Last Supper, just before the first Seder at the beginning of Passover, at which they would have eaten the paschal lamb?
It is painfully obvious that Christ meant for us to literally eat His flesh and drink His blood under the appearance of bread and wine, and that’s why the earliest Christians unanimously took the Eucharist to be literally Christ’s flesh and blood.
It’s really quite simple – if He meant it literally, then He incriminates Himself as a false prophet who lead the people astray by sorcery to worship a false god. For which the penalty is death by stoning.
Either Christianity is true, and the Eucharist is false, or the Eucharist is true and Christianity is a total lie that has destroyed the lives of billions through idolatry.
According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraph 1324: “The Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life. The other sacraments, and indeed all ecclesiastical ministries and works of the apostolate, are bound up with the Eucharist and are oriented toward it. For in the blessed Eucharist is contained the whole spiritual good of the Church, namely Christ himself, our Pasch.”
“But here some one perhaps will ask, Since the canon of Scripture is complete, and sufficient of itself for everything, and more than sufficient, what need is there to join with it the authority of the Church’s interpretation? For this reason — because, owing to the depth of Holy Scripture, all do not accept it in one and the same sense, but one understands its words in one way, another in another; so that it seems to be capable of as many interpretations as there are interpreters. For Novatian expounds it one way, Sabellius another, Donatus another, Arius, Eunomius, Macedonius, another, Photinus, Apollinaris, Priscillian, another, Iovinian, Pelagius, Celestius, another, lastly, Nestorius another. Therefore, it is very necessary, on account of so great intricacies of such various error, that the rule for the right understanding of the prophets and apostles should be framed in accordance with the standard of Ecclesiastical and Catholic interpretation.“
Here’s another thought: Say you are right and the Eucharist means nothing, that should call into question every other miracle that Christ performed during his ministry, up to and including his resurrection.
If Christ didn’t want us to eat His flesh in the appearance of bread, then why was He born in a city called House of Bread and laid in a food trough?
If He didn’t want that, why would He have said that He is the bread from heaven and that His flesh is truly food and that we must eat it? (And if He meant that as a metaphor, why didn’t He correct everyone when they all took it literally?)
If He didn’t want that, then why did He offer Himself as the Lamb of God for the sacrifice for our sins in the same way the Old Testament Jews offered a lamb in sacrifice, a lamb which they were required to eat the flesh of?
If He didn’t want that, why did He say, “This is my body, which is given for you” at the Last Supper, just before the first Seder at the beginning of Passover, at which they would have eaten the paschal lamb?
It is painfully obvious that Christ meant for us to literally eat His flesh and drink His blood under the appearance of bread and wine, and that’s why the earliest Christians unanimously took the Eucharist to be literally Christ’s flesh and blood.
→ “Well, toward morning the conversation turned on the Eucharist, which I, being the Catholic, was obviously supposed to defend. [Mary McCarthy] said when she was a child and received the Host, she thought of it as the Holy Ghost, He being the ‘most portable’ person of the Trinity; now she thought of it as a symbol and implied that it was a pretty good one. I then said, in a very shaky voice, ‘Well, if it’s a symbol, to hell with it.’ That was all the defense I was capable of but I realize now that this is all I will ever be able to say about it, outside of a story, except that it is the center of existence for me; all the rest of life is expendable.”
– Flannery O’Connor
“If these are just sacred symbols, then Catholics are not only idolaters but they’re the stupidest idolaters in history. They’re bowing down to bread and they’re worshiping wine thinking that it’s Almighty God. How could they be that stupid? And more importantly, how could the Holy Spirit fall asleep for 1500 years and wait until the Protestant Reformers to tell us that that was a mistake. On the other hand, if the Catholics are right, then we Protestants who don’t believe in the real presence are missing out on the most amazing and astounding and intimate union with God that is possible in this life.”
If Christ was speaking in metaphors about eating His flesh in John 6 and when He said, “This is my body. … This is my blood.” at the Last Supper, then why are the Early Church Fathers unanimous in believing in the Real Precense of Christ in the Eucharist? If Christ meant it to be purely symbolic, then why did the earliest Christian teachers unanimously get it wrong?
Exactly. Look me in the eye and say that St. John – who was His Beloved, at Jesus’ feet when He was crucified – Sts. Peter and Paul and all of the apostles (and those they taught, such as Luke) unanimously got this most crucial teaching wrong. Like there were so many heresies floating around (which the Church kept squashing) but not one about the Eucharist. Not one. Because it wasn’t up for interpretation or debate, it was repeatedly and explicitly explained by Jesus to His followers in the Bible and was the cornerstone of worship for centuries – the New Covenant Passover.
Absolutely no one even had the notion it was merely a symbol until the post-Luther Christian shambles.
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