Friday, July 2, 2010
Psalm 134...
A song of ascents...
Come bless the Lord,
all you servants of the Lord
Who stand in the house of the Lord
through the long hours of night.
Lift up your hands toward the sanctuary,
and bless the Lord.
May the Lord who made heaven and earth
bless you from Zion.
Come bless the Lord,
all you servants of the Lord
Who stand in the house of the Lord
through the long hours of night.
Lift up your hands toward the sanctuary,
and bless the Lord.
May the Lord who made heaven and earth
bless you from Zion.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
The Way, Truth and Life...
"You search the scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness to Me; and you refuse to come to Me that you may have life" (John, 5:39). Would He who said, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life" (John, 14:6) confuse?
Would He who said, "I came into the world, to testify to the truth" (John, 8:58) lie?
Would He who said, "If I speak the truth, why do you not believe me?" (John, 8:46) deceive?
Pillar and Mainstay of Truth
The Bible says the Church--<strong>not the Bible--is the "pillar and mainstay of truth" (1 Timothy, 3:15)! The ex-Satan worshipper Betty Brennan, in speaking to a Pentecostal prayer group, said of the Bible and the Church that gives us the Eucharist:
"For years, for years, I have persecuted the church. When I left and went back to the church, I picked the Roman Catholic Church because every Satanic ritual is a take-off on the Roman Catholic Sacraments. They [Satanists] know what the Eucharist is...If everybody that came into the renewal, understood the Sacrament of the Eucharist--the Word enfleshed--they would not end up in a Pentecostal Church with a relationship with a book---how can you leave a Sacramental Church and go to another denomination following a word, a book? The word of Jesus Christ brings you to the Word enfleshed, the Eucharist!
Do you know that if there was a bona fide witch here, and you put out thirty hosts, or a thousand hosts, and only one was consecrated, they would know immediately which one was consecrated--because of the presence! And yet we will go to x amount of prayer meetings, x amount of time with our prayer partner, but we don't have the desire to be one with the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ Himself!"
--Missionaries of the Blessed Sacrament (2000).
Would He who said, "I came into the world, to testify to the truth" (John, 8:58) lie?
Would He who said, "If I speak the truth, why do you not believe me?" (John, 8:46) deceive?
Pillar and Mainstay of Truth
The Bible says the Church--<strong>not the Bible--is the "pillar and mainstay of truth" (1 Timothy, 3:15)! The ex-Satan worshipper Betty Brennan, in speaking to a Pentecostal prayer group, said of the Bible and the Church that gives us the Eucharist:
"For years, for years, I have persecuted the church. When I left and went back to the church, I picked the Roman Catholic Church because every Satanic ritual is a take-off on the Roman Catholic Sacraments. They [Satanists] know what the Eucharist is...If everybody that came into the renewal, understood the Sacrament of the Eucharist--the Word enfleshed--they would not end up in a Pentecostal Church with a relationship with a book---how can you leave a Sacramental Church and go to another denomination following a word, a book? The word of Jesus Christ brings you to the Word enfleshed, the Eucharist!
Do you know that if there was a bona fide witch here, and you put out thirty hosts, or a thousand hosts, and only one was consecrated, they would know immediately which one was consecrated--because of the presence! And yet we will go to x amount of prayer meetings, x amount of time with our prayer partner, but we don't have the desire to be one with the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ Himself!"
--Missionaries of the Blessed Sacrament (2000).
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
The most awewome statements ever made...
The Holy Bible
Of all the books ever written--in the history of the world--it is most probable that the only statement of a truth mentioned nine (9) consecutive times is found in the Holy Bible, St. John's Gospel, the sixth chapter, verses 48-58:
v. 48: "I am the bread of life."
v. 49: "Your ancestors ate the manna in the desert, but they died; this is the bread that comes down from heaven so that one may eat it and not die."
v. 51: "I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread I will give is my flesh for the life of the world."
v. 53: "Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you."
v. 54: "Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day."
v. 55: "My flesh is real food and my blood is real drink."
v. 56: "Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him."
v. 57: "Just as the living father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me."
v. 58: "This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died, whoever eats this bread will live forever."
v.61: "Does this shock you?"
No words our Lord spoke were ever more relevant than, "Does this shock you?"
The four Evangelists quote Christ's Divine authority on this matter and they not only affirm what He said, they actually equate His body and blood in the Holy Eucharist with His body and blood offered on the cross! They, therefore, are both literally true or they are both symbolic!
History proves Christ did offer his real flesh and blood on the cross--therefore His real flesh and blood are available to us in Holy Communion.
--Missionaries of the Blessed Sacrament (2000).
It is incredulous to me that Protestants who avow 'solo Scriptura' deny what is clearly written. Then I remember that when Christ proclaimed these Truths, 'many turned away.'
How blessed we are as Catholics--who believe and receive the Bread of Life!
Of all the books ever written--in the history of the world--it is most probable that the only statement of a truth mentioned nine (9) consecutive times is found in the Holy Bible, St. John's Gospel, the sixth chapter, verses 48-58:
v. 48: "I am the bread of life."
v. 49: "Your ancestors ate the manna in the desert, but they died; this is the bread that comes down from heaven so that one may eat it and not die."
v. 51: "I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread I will give is my flesh for the life of the world."
v. 53: "Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you."
v. 54: "Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day."
v. 55: "My flesh is real food and my blood is real drink."
v. 56: "Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him."
v. 57: "Just as the living father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me."
v. 58: "This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died, whoever eats this bread will live forever."
v.61: "Does this shock you?"
No words our Lord spoke were ever more relevant than, "Does this shock you?"
The four Evangelists quote Christ's Divine authority on this matter and they not only affirm what He said, they actually equate His body and blood in the Holy Eucharist with His body and blood offered on the cross! They, therefore, are both literally true or they are both symbolic!
History proves Christ did offer his real flesh and blood on the cross--therefore His real flesh and blood are available to us in Holy Communion.
--Missionaries of the Blessed Sacrament (2000).
It is incredulous to me that Protestants who avow 'solo Scriptura' deny what is clearly written. Then I remember that when Christ proclaimed these Truths, 'many turned away.'
How blessed we are as Catholics--who believe and receive the Bread of Life!
Monday, June 28, 2010
Symbol?
"When you look at the crucifix, you understand how much Jesus loved you. When you look at the Sacred Host you understand how much Jesus loves you now." (Mother Theresa of Calcutta). Protestant denominations claim that at the Last Supper, in His last will and testament, Jesus Christ, God and man, who said, "I am with you all days, even unto the consummation of the world" (Mathew, 28:20), meant He was going to leave us a symbol of Himself--but not literally Himself!
The Challenge
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton (1774-1821), Foundress of the Sisters of Charity, and a convent, offers all Protestants this challenge: "The words of our Lord are clear enough when taking bread He blessed it, broke it, and gave it to His disciples and said, "Take and eat, this is my Body..." I defy Protestants to produce the authority of any of the Fathers of the first four centuries (whom they often quote as good authorities to prove religious truth), in support of their opinion that the words of Jesus Christ in the institution of this sacrament are to be taken in a figurative sense."
St. Justin Martyr, and Early Church Father explains, "We do not receive this food as ordinary bread and as ordinary drink; but just as Jesus Christ, our Saviour, becomes flesh through the word of God and assumed flesh through through the word of God and assumed flesh and blood for our salvation, so too we are taught that the food over which the Eucharistic prayer is said, the food which nourishes our flesh and blood by assimilation, is the flesh and blood of Jesus Christ."---Missionaries of the Blessed Sacrament (2000).
The Challenge
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton (1774-1821), Foundress of the Sisters of Charity, and a convent, offers all Protestants this challenge: "The words of our Lord are clear enough when taking bread He blessed it, broke it, and gave it to His disciples and said, "Take and eat, this is my Body..." I defy Protestants to produce the authority of any of the Fathers of the first four centuries (whom they often quote as good authorities to prove religious truth), in support of their opinion that the words of Jesus Christ in the institution of this sacrament are to be taken in a figurative sense."
St. Justin Martyr, and Early Church Father explains, "We do not receive this food as ordinary bread and as ordinary drink; but just as Jesus Christ, our Saviour, becomes flesh through the word of God and assumed flesh through through the word of God and assumed flesh and blood for our salvation, so too we are taught that the food over which the Eucharistic prayer is said, the food which nourishes our flesh and blood by assimilation, is the flesh and blood of Jesus Christ."---Missionaries of the Blessed Sacrament (2000).
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