The existence of satanic rites confirms the faith of the Church
Recently Pope John Paul II warned all the priests of the world about the possibility that adherents of satanic sects might seize consecrated hosts in order to profane them in their so-called “black masses.”
According to scholars of satanic sects, the hosts are profaned in ways so terrible that I do not dare to describe them. Nevertheless, those of us who, by the grace of God, believe in the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharistic species in the way He affirmed it in Mt 26:26 and John, chapter 6, must draw, even from this terrible reality, magnificent encouragement for our faith in this blessed mystery.
The great majority of non-Catholic Christian brethren do not accept the belief that Jesus is really present in the consecrated bread and wine; yet even so, they celebrate what they call the “Lord’s Supper,” every month or at longer intervals, not as the first Christians did, who carried it out “steadfastly” (Acts 2:42). They always see in this act a “symbolic” presence of Jesus, never a “real” one as in the Catholic faith.
Because of the above, in Catholicism, since it has faith in the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist, its churches are open most of the day so that the faithful may offer worship and adoration to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament in every tabernacle; this does not happen in non-Catholic churches, which generally open only at the time of worship, when the pastor arrives.
The Eucharistic celebration (Holy Mass) in the Catholic Church is celebrated 24 hours a day and 365 days a year, because of the various time zones of the world and as Malachi 1:11 prophesied, “from the rising of the sun to its setting.” The Eucharist is the central mystery of the Catholic faith, which through the centuries has encouraged its countless saints.
The Eucharist nourishes the People of God on their journey to the Father, like the manna (Jn 6:31) with the ancient People of Israel in the desert. Without this bread we cannot walk with “hunger under the sun,” as a Eucharistic hymn says. A preacher said: “Through the Eucharist one can betray or come to know Christ.” Judas betrayed Him on the day of the institution of this Sacrament by turning away from it (Mt 26:20), and the disciples of Emmaus, when it was celebrated, recognized the Savior (Lk 24:31).
This doctrine will always be much discussed and rejected; we see this in the Bible, in Jn 6:60.
Returning to the evil intentions of the satanic sects already mentioned, we must ask ourselves: why do they seek precisely Catholic consecrated hosts, and not those used in the Lord’s Supper ceremonies of non-Catholic brethren? We might think that even the Evil One, through those who worship him, is giving us, by their evil actions, a testimony that Jesus is really present in the Catholic Eucharist. Only in this way can their wicked intentions be understood.
Author: By José L. Fierro C. / Mexico
Source: Apologetica.org
