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On new years Eve 1999 Pontiff Maximus John Paul of Rome
was crowned on a throne. When the deity performance was
ended he left the throne, walked over and took a large key and
opened a huge symbolic door to the world in the Vatican.
He turned and faced the people assembled there in the Vatican
and proclaimed that "Salvation
now only comes through the Roman Catholic Church." The
"vicar for Christ"
("vicar" means substitute"), who holds the
title "God on earth",
was talking to nations that were not submissive to Rome.
This picture above is a close-up of a monstrance, and inside
the glass enclosure is an crescent moon, upon which the round
wafer god host is placed, a virtual duplication of the symbology
of the Canaanite and Chaldean stele shown above. Many monstrances
use this crescent, which is officially called a "lunette"
or "luna" (moon), to hold the round wafer host. The
moon was referred to as "queen of heaven" or simply
as "the queen." The sun disk in the crescent
moon is a quite common symbol for pagan religions...however God
created the sun (Genesis 1:16), and therefore it was not
worthy of worship by men
This sun
(sunni) is what the monstrance is.
SUN WORSHIP IS
FORBIDDEN
Never ever bow down to a sun burst image. Along
with the moon, the sun's duty was to regulate the days and seasons.
As God created the sun, God also has the power to darken the
sun. The prophet Joel predicted He would do that very thing
on the day of the LORD (Joel 2:31). Here is WIDSOM dear
brothers in Christ. You would do well to keep these words
in your heart. Three of the gospel writers (Matthew 27:45;
Mark 15:33; Luke 23:44-45) tell us that the
sun grew dark at the crucifixion. In the last
days, says the Revelation, God will extinguish the sun
(Revelation 6:12; 9:2; 21:23; 22:5). Ezekiel 8 explains
why. Because sun worship is pagan idolatry. It was commonly
practiced in the ancient world, especially by the Assyrians,
Chaldeans (who were the Babylonians), Egyptians, and Phoenicians.
Today few know that worship of the sun and other heavenly bodies
was specifically forbidden among the Hebrew people (Deut 4:19)
and those grafted into the vine. But a few cases of this
form of idolatry did occur among the nations of Israel during
their long history.... The prophet Ezekiel portrayed
the ABOMINATION of men who had rejected the Temple of the LORD
and had turned their faces toward the East to worship the rising
sun
Ezekiel 8:15-18 Then said he unto
me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? turn thee yet again, and
thou shalt see greater abominations than these. And he brought
me into the inner court of the Lord's house, and, behold, at
the door of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the
altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward
the temple of the Lord, and their faces toward the east; and
they worshipped the sun toward the east. Then he said unto me,
Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the
house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit
here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned
to provoke Me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their
nose. Therefore will I also deal in fury: Mine eye shall not
spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in Mine
ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.
Deuteronomy 4:19
And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou
seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host
of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them,
which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under the
whole heaven.
Deuteronomy 17:2-5 If there be found
among you, within any of thy gates which the Lord thy God giveth
thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight
of the Lord thy God, in transgressing his covenant, And hath
gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun,
or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;
And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and inquired
diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that
such abomination is wrought in Israel: Then shalt thou bring
forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked
thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt
stone them with stones, till they die.
Job 31:26-28 If I beheld the sun
when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness; And my heart
hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:
This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I
should have denied the God that is above.
Jeremiah 8:2 And they shall spread
them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven,
whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom
they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have
worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall
be for dung upon the face of the earth.
II Kings 23:5 And he [Josiah] put down the idolatrous priests, whom the
kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places
in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem;
them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the
moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
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Rome Says:
"Behold the Lamb of God..."
with Inexplicable Eucharistic Phenomena
The Bleeding Host of Betania
"There will be chaos
in the Church. Tranquility will not return until the Pope succeeds
in anchoring the boat of Peter between the twin pillars of Eucharistic
devotion and devotion to Our Lady. This will come about one year
before the end of the (20th) century."
Saint John Bosco, 1862
This prophetic statement by Saint John
Bosco, the Italian priest and mystic who founded the Salesians,
puts into context the other principal supernatural phenomena
occuring in the late Twentieth century - Eucharistic miracles.
For, in addition to the numerous reports of visions and locutions
purportedly coming from the Mother of Jesus, there have been
a startling number of visible and recordable
events recently reported relating to the sudden appearance
of a reddish fluid on Communion Hosts consecrated during the
celebration of Catholic Mass. Phenomena such as these have occurred
before in history but never at the frequency
presently being reported. Before detailing these events, it might
be useful to provide a brief overview of the origins of Catholic
belief in the Eucharist and outline just what the Catholic Church
teaches about the act of consecration and the changes in the
characteristics of the Host that occur as a result of this consecration.
The Scriptural Basis of the Eucharist
The Catholic Church traces the origins of the Eucharist to
the very actions and words of Jesus Christ Himself as recorded
in the three synoptic Gospels, the gospel of Saint John and as
described by Saint Paul in the New Testament. The use of bread
and wine as an offering begins under the Old Covenant as described
in the Book of Genesis:
"And Melchizedek king of Salem
brought out bread and wine; he was priest of God Most High."
Genesis 14:18
As they began their exodus from Egypt, the Jews ate unleavened
bread (Exodus 12:15), made necessary because of their haste to
flee, and they continue to this day to honor this occasion with
unleavened bread when they celebrate Passover; the last "cup
of blessing" at the end of the Passover meal was a cup of
wine used to celebrate the fact that God had blessed His chosen
people and would bless them again someday in Jerusalem. They
ate manna - bread sent from Heaven - as they wandered
the desert in search of the Promised Land, finally settling there
as God had promised them. After they
lost their land because of their continued failure to keep the
Commandments of God, they were sent prophets who predicted
that a Messiah would be sent by God, a saviour who would
bring them back to their original place of honor before God.
He arrived about 2,000 years ago.
Jesus' life began in Beth-Lechem...the House of Bread
(Matthew 2:1). His first public miracle was at a wedding party
in Cana (John 2:2-5), where He turned water into wine in response
to a request by His mother. With the miracle of the multiplication
of the loaves (Matthew 14:14-20), as Jesus blessed the loaves
of bread and distributed them, He prefigured the superabundance
of the unique bread that was to be His Eucharist. After teaching
and healing the sick and working other wonders in the hills of
the Galilee, Jesus had developed a wide following with many disciples.
It was at the synagogue of Capernaum, at the time of the feast
of Passover, that Jesus began to unfold the nature of His Eucharist
to those who were following Him:
"Do
not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which
endures to eternal life, which the Son of man will give to you;
for on Him has God the Father set His seal."
John 6:27
When His followers asked about the nature of this eternal
food, Jesus replied:
"I
am the bread of life; he who comes to me shall not hunger, and
he who believes in me shall never thirst."
John 6:35
When they heard this remark, some of His followers began to
murmur among themselves since they knew He was just a carpenter,
the son of Joseph. How could this man be the bread of
life? Yet Jesus persisted as He explained Himself to
them:
"I
am the living bread which came down from heaven; if any one eats
of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread which I shall
give for the life of the world is my flesh."
John 6:51
This comment brought outright consternation to a number of
those who had followed Him. He was actually telling them that
they had to eat His flesh, an unthinkable act. If His words were
confusing or misleading them in any way, then He would have corrected
their misunderstanding...but He didn't. Instead, He emphasized
yet again His meaning when He said:
"Truly,
truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man
and drink His blood, you have no life in you; he who eats my
flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise
him up at the last day. For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood
is drink indeed. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides
in me, and I in him."
John 6:53-56
Many of those who heard Jesus say this couldn't accept it
despite the fact that He explained and further clarified His
statements three times in attempting to address their lack of
understanding and their unwillingness to accept His words. He
tried again a fourth time to help them comprehend what He was
saying:
"It
is the spirit that gives life, the flesh is of no avail; the
words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life."
John 6:63
After saying this, many of those who had been following Him
chose to stay away. He tried four times to teach them and in
the end only a few accepted His teachings. Why didn't they comprehend
Jesus, as many still don't comprehend Him after 2,000 years?
Probably because they didn't understand that Jesus was the completion
of the Passover begun in Egypt over a thousand years earlier.
He was the New Covenant, the Promised One - the Messiah - but
He didn't fit into the contemporary concept of what the Messiah
should be. Passover was commemorated by a meal - a sharing of
unleavened bread, lamb and wine - and Jesus had come to give
them Himself as the ultimate Bread and Lamb, a meal to be consumed
by all who wished to escape from the angel of Death.
During the ritual of the Passover meal, there were four different
cups of blessing consumed along with unleavened bread
and lamb. The lamb was chosen after it was slain without breaking
any of its bones and then cooked and eaten to renew the bond
of communion between God and His chosen people. The blood of
this lamb, spread across the lintel of each household, was placed
there as a sign to the angel of Death to pass over the house
so marked and protect each of the first-born who were members
of the household. Jesus came to complete the Passover so that
all could pass over from death into eternal
life. And just as the Jews at the time of Moses had to eat the
unleavened bread and the sacrificial lamb to renew their communion
with God, so all were being asked to eat the body and drink the
blood of God's new lamb (Jesus) to renew their communion with
Him and be marked with the sign of eternal life.
Jesus instituted His Eucharist at the Passover meal that was
to mark His passing through death into Resurrection and everlasting
life. It was in these words that Jesus inaugurated His Eucharist:
Now
as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and broke
it, and gave it to the disciples and said, "Take, eat; this
is my body." And He took the cup, and when He had given
thanks He gave it to them, saying, "Drink of it, all of
you; for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out
for many for the forgiveness of sins."
Matthew 26:26-28
Clearly Jesus said that He was giving His
followers His body and blood. It wasn't meant as a symbol as
many of His followers at Capernaum would have liked to believe
- it was totally Him. But did His disciples really believe that
it was Jesus' body and blood? Saint Paul clearly states the beliefs
of Jesus' first disciples:
"Whoever,
therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an
unworthy manner will be guilty of profaning the body and blood
of the Lord. Let a man examine himself, and so eat of the bread
and drink of the cup. For any one who eats and drinks without
discerning the body eats and drinks judgement upon himself."
1 Corinthians 11:27-29
Saint Paul was not the only early follower of Jesus who wrote
of this belief and practice. Dozens wrote
about it in the first few hundred years of the Church's existence.
This belief in the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist
continues to this day in Catholic worship and mainstream theology.
The Catholic understanding of Jesus' presence in the Eucharist
is different than most other Christian denominations which tend
to see the eucharistic meal as a symbolic rememberance rather
than a real and substantial transformation.
Perhaps the best way for the modern mind to attempt to come
to grips with the mystery of the Catholic Eucharist is by seeing
the
Eucharistic Miracles in Catholic Church History
With this outline of the supernatural nature of the Eucharist
as background, a look at the 2,000 year history of the Catholic
Church for evidence of Jesus' real presence in the Eucharist
that's observable to the ordinary senses should be instructive.
Reports of "bleeding" hosts, hosts that appear to levitate
in the air by themselves, and other inexplicable phenomena occur
sporadically in Catholic historical literature, starting in about
250 AD in the writings of Saint Cyprian. He wrote about one of
the apostates living in his time that while attempting "to
open the tabernacle in which the body of the Lord was preserved,
sees flames issuing forth."The following are a few
of the dozens of reports of Eucharistic miracles from the past:
Lanciano, Italy
 In 8th Century Italy,
in the village of what is now Lanciano, there was a monastery
named St. Longinus. A monk who had begun to have real doubts
about Jesus' real presence in the Eucharist was celebrating Mass
at the monastery. As he spoke the words of the consecration the
host changed into a circle of "flesh" surrounding the
remaining Eucharist and the wine transformed into visible "blood".
The "flesh" remained intact but the "blood"
subsequently divided into five separate globules. The monk was
reinvigourated in his faith as he witnessed this transformation.
He later decided to weigh the "blood" globules and
found to his amazement that any combination of the globules was
equal in weight to any other combination and that the smallest
globule weighed exactly the same as the largest - clearly defying
any natural explanation. The "flesh" and "blood"
have been maintained in special containers housed in the monastery
and its successors ever since. In a modern evaluation of this
"flesh" and "blood" conducted by several
Italian university professors in 1970 under rigorous conditions,
they found the following:
the container that held the "flesh" was not hermetically
sealed so that the Eucharistic host at the center of the "flesh"
was no longer present. Further, the "blood" globules
had hardened and no unusual weight differences were noted.
samples were taken of both the "flesh" and the
"blood" and were sent to a number of laboratories for
microscopic, biochemical and other scientific evaluation.
the "flesh" was found to be striated muscular tissue
of the myocardium (the wall of the heart), of human origin and
contained absolutely no trace of any substances that could have
been used to preserve it. It was Flesh indeed!
the "blood" sample was found to be human blood,
type AB. The flesh was found to be of the same type as well.It
was truly Blood!
the proteins found in the blood sample were consistent with
proteins found in fresh human blood.
Despite the fact that the container housing the flesh and
blood from the Eucharist was not hermetically sealed, the samples
were not at all damaged and could have been taken from a fresh
cadaver. Thus, for more than 1200 years the physical reality
of Jesus real presence in the Eucharist has been preserved for
all to observe and renew their faith.
There are more than two dozen documented
reports of similar Eucharistic miracles occurring throughout
Europe between the 10th and 15th centuries and dozens more since
then with many of them having enclosed the flesh and blood samples
in special containers where they can still be seen today.
Bolsena, Italy
In 1263 Peter of Prague, a German priest, was celebrating
Mass at the Church of Saint Christina in Bolsena. He had been
entertaining serious doubts about the reality of Christ's presence
in the consecrated Host. As he completed the words of Consecration
blood started to seep from the Consecrated Host and run down
over his hands onto the altar and the altar communion linen (corporal).
Seeing this, he interrupted the Mass and traveled quickly to
Orvieto, where Pope Urban IV was then residing. On hearing his
story, the Pope forgave him for having doubts and sent representatives
to Bolsena to investigate. Parishioners and others confirmed
the priest's story and the host and stained linens were there
for all to see. Their investigation, when completed, confirmed
all that the priest had related. One year later, in August 1264
Pope Urban instituted the feast of Corpus Christi (Body of Christ).
Stich, Germany
In the Bavarian region of Germany, near the Swiss border,
lie three hamlets the smallest of which is Stich. On the evening
of June 9, 1970, as a visiting priest from Switzerland was celebrating
a Tridentine Mass (Mass in Latin celebrated under the rubrics
of the Council of Trent)in the chapel, an unusual series of events
occurred. After the Consecration, the celebrant noticed that
a small reddish spot began to appear on the corporal at the place
where the chalice had been resting. Wondering if the chalice
had begun to leak, the priest ran his hand under the chalice,
but found it completely dry. By this time the small spot had
spread to be about the size of a dime. After completing the Mass
the priest inspected everything on the altar but could find no
source of anything that could remotely be a source for the reddish
stain. He locked the corporal containing the stain in a safe
place until he could discuss the matter with the pastor.
On June 11th, after examining the corporal with the pastor,
the cloth was photographed and sent to the Clinical Institute
for Radial Therapy and Nuclear Medicine and the Polyclinical
Institute of the University of Zurich for chemical analysis.
The results of four separate analyses conducted on the cloth
samples indicated that the cause of the stain was human blood
that contained some of the biochemical markers of a man in agony.
On July 14th, the phenomena repeated itself at the chapel
in Stich with four stains appearing on the corporal after the
Consecration. Several days later, the pastor sent the corporal
with the stains to the District Hospital at Cercee for analysis
- the results: the stains were human blood!! One of the witnesses
to this event, Joseph Talscher, the sacristan of the chapel,
reported the following:
"On the evening of July 14, Father
was celebrating Holy Mass in the chapel of Stich. Mindful of
what had happened on June 9, we made certain that the cloths
covering the altar were spotlessly clean...after taking Holy
Communion, the priest made a sign to me and pointed to the altar.
Then I saw the stains. After Mass we all took a closer look at
the cloths and especially the large stain which was the size
of a priest's host. We saw a cross very distinctly on it."
Eucharistic Phenomena of the 1990's
There are several alternative explanations for communion hosts
turning a reddish color, the most common of which is the presence
of the bacterium serratia marcescens. Serratia marcescens
grows readily on starchy foodstuffs and looks like a reddish,
bloody coloration to ordinary visual inspection. It looks substantially
different under microscopic examination and can be distinguished
readily from human blood. Without testing for the presence of
human blood, it's difficult to be certain that this bacterium
isn't involved. After eliminating reports of Eucharistic phenomena
that could be attributed to the presence of this bacteria,
there are still a number of reports of Eucharistic phenomena
that merit attention coming from all over the world in the 1990's
- a number never before witnessed in the history
of the Church in such a short time period. The more well known
of these are described in the following:
Betania,
Venezuela - an inexplicable event occurred in Betania,
Venezuela - site of a series of remarkable Marian Apparitions
- on the vigil of the feast of the Immaculate Conception in 1991.
Father Otty Ossa, chaplain of the Betania site and spiritual
director of the Marian visionary Maria Esperanza, was saying
Mass in the open air chapel next to the grotto, when the host
began to bleed in his hands after the consecration. Fr. Otty
explained:
"I broke the Host into four
parts. When I looked down at the plate I could not believe my
eyes. I saw a red stain forming on the Host and from it a red
substance was beginning to eminate similar to the way blood spurts
out in a puncture."
This event was videotaped, photographed and subject to intense
evaluation by the local episcopate. They later determined that
it was human blood.
Worcester, Massachusetts has been the site
of a series of inexplicable events surrounding a twelve year
old girl who was brain-damaged in a swimming pool accident when
she was 3 years old. Unable to walk or talk the girl, Audrey
Santo, has become the focus of a growing number of Catholic mystical
experiences. For the past nine years the only solid food she
has eaten has been the Holy Communion which she receives daily.
Several years ago, the local Bishop permitted the Blessed Sacrament
to be reserved in a tabernacle housed in Audrey's room. On several
different occasions the two gold engraved angels on the tabernacle
door have wept fragrant oil. The oil has been examined by several
different chemical labs but its makeup and origin is still unknown.
Religious statues and pictures in Audrey's room have wept oil
and sometimes blood...reminiscent of the Marian apparitions in
Damascus, Syria.
On three occasions, the Consecrated Host taken from the tabernacle
has dripped a reddish fluid. The fluid has been examined by an
independent testing laboratory and found to be human blood. On
Good Friday 1996, the tabernacle in Audrey's room began bleeding.
Audrey herself now has the stigmata - the visible wounds of Jesus.
Visitors to her room have reported inexplicable healings and
spiritual conversions. At least three of Audrey's nurses, who
were not Catholics when they first began to care for her, have
since converted to Catholicism.
In Audrey's case, God has chosen a severely injured little
girl to be one of His messengers to the world. He has given her
multiple manifestations of His love and concern for her and for
each of us. He wants us to know that it is He who comes to us
in the Eucharist..it is He who wants us with Him for all eternity.
Marlboro,
New Jersey has been the site of purported Marian
apparitions for nearly ten years. On April 10, 1994, the feast
of Divine Mercy, Father Robert Rooney, the spiritual director
of the visionary, was celebrating morning Mass in nearby Yardville,
New Jersey at Saint Vincent de Paul Church. As he raised the
Host and said the words of consecration, blood flowed out of
the Eucharist. The altar boys present and a number of parishioners
saw this occur and Father Rooney was understandably shaken by
the bleeding host. After showing the Host to the parish priest,
it was decided that the Host should be retained in the tabernacle
until the head of the local Episcopate, Bishop Reiss, could decide
what actions should be taken. Several days later the Bishop decided
not to investigate the phenomena and Fr. Rooney gave the Host
to his spiritual director Father Valenta.
Father Valenta had the Host photographed and then examined
by two medical doctors using non-invasive microscopic analysis.
Non-invasive techniques were used since a bishop's approval is
required for any invasive examination. The doctors stated:
"There is no scientific explanation,
the red material came from within the Host and it has the microscopic
characteristics of human blood; the Church must make the determination
as to any miracle."
On June 6, 1994, the feast of Corpus Christi, Father Rooney
stated that the Blessed Virgin appeared, in her first and only
appearance to him, in his dining room and told him that her Son
had sent him a gift - the gift of the bleeding Host - and from
now on his spiritual director would take care of everything.
Father Rooney died six weeks later on July 16, 1996 - the feast
of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Father Valenta delivered the bloody
Host to Bishop Reiss of the Diocese of Trenton where it still
resides.
Methuen, Massachusetts was the site of another
inexplicable Eucharistic phenomena in 1995. In preparing to distribute
Communion, a Eucharistic minister at Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Catholic Church opened the tabernacle to discover a Consecrated
Host "bleeding" inside. The host was transfered to
a container, apparently still bleeding, and retained there for
further examination. Aside from a number of witnesses who observed
the bleeding Host, the Host itself was sent to Dr. B. Lipinski,
a biochemist, for non-invasive examination. He ascertained that
the reddish substance was human blood. With this determination,
a small sample of the crusted blood was sent to the California
Laboratory of Forensic Sciences. After several preliminary tests
confirmed the presence of blood, on August 30, 1995, a crossover
electrophoresis was conducted on the sample which unequivocally
identified the reddish substance as human blood. The local bishop
is presently evaluating all the circumstances surrounding the
appearance of this blood.
Rome,
Italy has recently been the site of reports of its
own set of inexplicable phenomena related to the Eucharist. Since
1971, an Italian Marian visionary, Marisa Rossi, has purportedly
been receiving locutions and signs from Our Blessed Mother asking
for humanity to change its ways and return to God - particularly
in the Eucharist. These apparitions changed in character in the
mid-90's when Marisa took part in an inexplicable Eucharistic
event on September 14, 1995 - the feast of the Exultation of
the Cross. After praying in the chapel, Marisa, who is wheelchair-bound,
stood and kissed the crucifix which Don Claudio Gatti had removed
from the altar in preparation for a procession. Marisa said she
saw a Host emerge from the side of the corpus on the cross and
fall into her hand. Many around her noticed the Host which had
not been there moments before. Another apparently inexplicable
Eucharistic event occured in April of 1996 when Marisa was photographed
as a Host suddenly appears in her outstretched hands during a
purported apparition of the Blessed Virgin.
Barbeau, Michigan may have been the site
of an inexplicable Eucharistic event on February 4, 1996. During
Mass at the Church of the Holy Family, an inexperienced Eucharistic
minister dropped a Host onto a patent (a plate used to catch
particles of consecrated Host). Believing that this Host had
to be placed in an ablution cup, the minister informed the priest
of this despite the fact that the Host hadn't touched either
the ground or a communicant. The Host remained in the cup for
a week because inclement weather prevented any weekday Masses.
The following Sunday, February 11th, a dime-sized red coloration
was seen on the surface of the Host. The Host, which had been
in water to help disolve it, was engorged with water but otherwise
retained its shape. The local bishop, who was advised of these
developments via telephone, suggested to the parish priest, Father
Mark A. McQuesten, that the coloration was probably due to a
fungus growing on the Host and that it should be disposed of
in the approved manner. The priest continued to show the Host
to his parishioners and had it photographed as well.The local
news media picked up the story several weeks later and after
another call from the Bishop, Fr. McQuesten finally touched of
the Host for the first time on February 26th. He planned to dispose
of it in the manner authorized by the Church. However, he stated
that when he touched it, it felt like flesh, that he had to tear
at it in order to rip it - not at all what one would expect from
a water-logged piece of unleavened bread. During all this time
the Host never lost its shape or the red coloration it first
displayed nearly a month earlier.
FALSE CHRIST's
This supposedly "substantiated", concentration of
Eucharistic phenomena; --Can it be considered under the
heading of False Christ's? Are these who falsely claim
to have Jesus's body and blood in a monstrance luna false
prophets? Are these who utter or foretell future revelations
from God (as in the case of Saint John Basco), really foretelling
future events, or are they true false prophets who
have the the power to produce "miracles,
signs and wonders" -- ?
Here's the answer. In the Bible, false prophets fell
into three general catagories:
(1) those who worshipped false gods
and served and bowed down to false idols.
(2) those who falsely claimed
to receive messages from the LORD; And,
(3) those who wandered away from the truth
and ceased to be true prophets of God the Father
Above is only a few of the many reports of inexplicable
Eucharistic phenomena presently occuring around the world that
are being evaluated by local episcopal and medical authorities. Now,
"It" may be that , a part of a human is present in
the Luna of a sun-burst image. But rest assured it is not
our Jesus as He arose from the dead fully intact.
Alas, Many are deceived because they cannot fathom
a "false Christ" as being something that
pretends to be Christ, but is actually
a representative of all that Christ opposes.
Here is another characteristic of a false prophet. One of
the recurring characteristics of a False Prophet is that
they are often found in the employment of the powerful.
Their jobs are to speak flattering words to the man that
has given them his mark. Jeremiah condemned the false prophets
who were always saying, "Peace, Peace!" when their
was no "Peace" (Jeremiah 6:14). Those who have
an ear, hear what the spirit is saying to the churches.
These false prophets preach a similiar and popular message today,
that their will be victory against Babylon. Jeremiah says
"The prophets prophesy falsely...and My people love to have
it so" (Jeremiah 5:31). In the Book of Revelation,
the dragon (that is, the devil), the beast, and the false prophet
make up the UNholy Trinity of evil that opposes Christ and his
people or Body (Revealation 16:13).
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