Are Catholics the Worst Idolaters? + Fr. Mike's Homily  

A so called non denomination is ultimately a denomination. But the painful truth is there’s ONLY ONE CHURCH. Protestant’s belong to 40,000+ man made CULTS which are Pagan and anti Christ. To reject the holy Catholic Church IS to reject Jesus Christ because the holy Catholic Church IS Jesus’s mystical body on earth! The bible is a Catholic book the protestant bible is an incomplete and corrupted Catholic book for proof watch Steve Ray’s excellent testimony! God bless.

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Receiving Jesus Christ in the Holy Eucharist is The most beautiful, powerful and intimate union we can have with God on earth. Attending a Catholic Mass is like being invited to The Last Supper with Jesus and His apostles. Jesus performed His first Mass and told His apostles to continue His Mass until He returns. Jesus said in Jn 6:51-59 that unless we eat of His Body and drink His Blood In Holy Communion, we will have no life in us. We will never enter Heaven. If we do eat and drink of Him, He will raise us up on the last day. If we eat and drink of Him, without having our mortal sins absolved, without having received the First Sacrament of Holy Communion or if we’re not Catholic, we would be receiving Him unworthily. Receiving Him in Holy Communion unworthily, we bring a sentence against ourselves for not discerning it to be The Body and Blood of Jesus Christ.

GOD IS GOOD ! He brought you home❤

So glad to hear some good news welcome home

That happens to me too! At first my Faith wasn't strong enough to fast for more than an hour beforehand incase I "fainted" but I reminded myself "The Lord will sustain me, just fast the whole morning" and every time, I feel full up as soon as I've eaten His Body - it's amazing!! God Bless 🙏

Jesus fed the 5000 with 12 loaves and 5 fish, so a little host can certainly keep you fed

@@josephjackson1956 Yes, well a 5 yr old certainly isn’t thinking this way.

​@@CheapsKate77sadly I think or in great disappointed I was also told this from mother but I never understood why, I always ate food before mass, even now as an adult, id hurry to eat then go to mass, I've not been to mass Eucharist for months now, but it seems that we need to explain to our own children now so they understand, my mother didn't say because God said so which would have probably been enough, but she simply said don't eat before mass which is hollow of meaning why? God doesn't have to explain himself, we cannot explain God away with small insignificant human will power but to explain what God wants us to do is necessary and now I see your comment and understand why, so God bless you , our parents didn't explain to us, which sometimes I understand why theres no explanation needed interesting how you listened to your mother's words and after you ate Eucharist you stopped hungry, but me I remember eating and staying out of church steps as I ate then went in mass to eat Eucharist 30 minutes later , that's the parallels between two boys, one listened one did not. And I probably had tougher time quitting pornography if only had I did what I ought.

​@@IsraelCountryCubeyou're supposed to fast for at least an hour before consuming the Eucharist as a form of reverence for Jesus Christ. It is an official rule for us Catholics, Canon No. 919

Thanks be to God....for allowing His Body and Blood to remain, looking and tasting like bread and wine...

@@stevearttus8164 Would you take it if it changed to blood and flesh.

if i am not mistaken the substance is bread but the essence is Jesus

That's a lie.

@@keithsmith606 How?

I believe he was exaggerating because most Catholics know that once the bread and wine are blessed by a Catholic Priest, they transform into The Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ. This is called The Transubstantiation and occurs only in a Catholic Mass.

​@@southernlady1109 I guess they think Jesus is a liar and of course God could not possibly be a liar

@@kathleenlamantia4239 I think they have been brainwashed over years to attack the Catholic Church and can’t see the truth!

Me too@Jocelyn it brakes my heart😢

No those figures are correct. 2019 Pew research poll. No pun intended. Just look at the liberality from communion in hand, the ease of laity to be Eucharistic ministers, to church laity's attire, to the casual/irreverent walk up to communion. We cannot read hearts & minds but consider the faithfuls actions.

You really can't be that naive, can you? It is obvious that they are removing negative comments. There are many Protestants that believe that the Catholic church is the home of Satan himself, so not to see some of that represented in the comments should be a red flag to you about the honesty being shown. I'm an atheist by the way.

I go looking for them to defend the faith

I like father mike...alot of catholics do seem too religious...Jesus wants all to come to him not just catholics

@@patrickpelletier9298 here's something not meant to be mean, but enlightening. John‬ ‭6:35‬ ‭ [35] Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; he who COMES to Me will NOT HUNGER, and he who BELIEVES in Me will NEVER THIRST. The crowds wanted food and He was directing them away from the temporary to the eternal. Jesus says that if I come I won't be hungry, and if I believe I won't be thirsty. Based on what Jesus says, if I come have I eaten? If I believe have I drank? ‭‭John‬ ‭6:40‬ [40] For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who beholds the Son and believes in Him will have eternal life, and I Myself will raise him up on the last day.” What is Jesus' promise to those who come and believe? ‭‭John‬ ‭6:47‬ ‭ [47] Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes has eternal life. Jesus says it again here very straightforward so you don't miss it. What is the prerequisite to eternal life? Belief/faith. You might say eating His flesh and blood? We already see we've done that by coming and believing. John‬ ‭6:52‬ ‭ [52] Then the Jews began to argue with one another, saying, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?” They obviously don't get it. They're still stuck on their next meal. Jesus has already clearly told us what it means to eat and drink. From this point on he doubles down on His symbolic language as He most frequently did with the jews when they were hard of heart. But it's already been established what is required, and what it means. On that day, way before the institution of the last supper, if they had come and believed would they have eaten and drank? Jesus says yes, what do you say? ‭‭1 Timothy‬ ‭6:3‭-‬5‬ [3] If anyone advocates a different doctrine and does not agree with sound words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and with the doctrine conforming to godliness, [4] he is conceited and understands nothing; but he has a morbid interest in controversial questions and disputes about words, out of which arise envy, strife, abusive language, evil suspicions, [5] and constant friction between men of depraved mind and deprived of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Where in scripture does it say that the eucharist is a propitiatory sacrifice? "The Eucharist is the very sacrifice of the Body and Blood of the Lord Jesus which he instituted to perpetuate the sacrifice of the cross throughout the ages until his return in glory." So it's sacrificed over and over? ‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭10:10‬ [10] By this will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ ONCE for all. ‭‭Romans‬ ‭6:10‬ [10] For the death that He died, He died to sin ONCE for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. ‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭9:25‭-‬26‬ ‭ [25] NOR was it that He would offer Himself OFTEN, as the high priest enters the holy place year by year with blood that is not his own. [26] Otherwise, He would have needed to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now ONCE at the consummation of the ages He has been manifested to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. Christ is physically present in the eucharist? You worship and adore the elements as if it were Christ himself? ‭‭Matthew‬ ‭24:23‭-‬24‬ [23] Then if anyone says to you, ‘Behold, here is the Christ,’ or ‘There He is,’ do not believe him. [24] For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will show great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect.

​@patrickpelletier9298 the pope parading a south American statue of a fertility goddess around St Peter's isn't idolatry? How is that not idolatry?

That's really cool. I started to seriously consider Catholicism and theism/Christianity in general around 25 and dragged my feet until this year (31). For me when it comes to the mysteries I lean more on appealing to the genuine authority of the church. I can't pick and choose what to believe but instead humbly trust and accept...but I will say that I was in a rut for the longest time and only recently does the road I'm on seem to be actually advancing somewhere, which would make sense considering I'm now baptised, confirmed and regularly receiving communion. Alot of grace

How do you accept the idolatry of Mary? The apostolic succession when Peter said in Acts 1 to be an Apostle one had to be present from Jesus's baptism thru His ascension? No priest is that old? That Jesus taught us to pray directly to God for forgiveness of sin. No sinner can forgive you your sins against God.

@@glennherron9499 the bible is a Catholic book. So it's funny you quote from it

@@glennherron9499 thankfully because I was never raised in a Protestant household or otherwise religiously conditioned, I have never needed to overcome any anti-Catholic beliefs minus some secular ones I was taught in school.

@@AjaxNixon God directed me to the Catholic Church before I even had any faith in Jesus specifically. At the time I didn’t particularly believe in the resurrection or the validity of the Bible or Church authority. I only knew I believed in a “higher power” and had gotten as far as thinking it was probably the God of Abraham that I believed in. I let God lead me and tell which authority to follow.

No Jesus Christ used a metaphor

Or not

Yes! We know He is present- Body, blood, soul & divinity.

To anyone who does believe this look up Eucharistic miracles and see how it has actually happend. Research your data

​@arielevenson3108 No He did not. Christ makes it clear when he's talking in parables and metaphors. Christ said "This IS my blood and flesh", not "this represents" or "this is like"

I've always wondered this...but remember the wafer they mass produce for all churches is gluten free

They must have gave you a keto version of eucharist. Jk! Lol. Bless you Brother Christian ✝️ 🙏

666, interesting number for that scripture.

And ten times earlier in John 6 He told those followers they needed to believe He was the son of God and they refused. If you read earlier in John 6 you will see those followers didn't care about spiritual things but looking for a free meal. Christ used a Jewish metaphor which the people didn't listen to but the apostles understood in in verse 68 where Peter responded the Christ had the "words" of eternal life, that being the gospel, the key to heaven. In Jewish thought, bread was equated with the Torah, and "eating of it" was reading and understanding the covenant of God (cf. Deuteronomy 8:3). For example, the apocryphal book of Sirach states, "'He who eats of me will hunger still, he who drinks of me will thirst for more; he who obeys me will not be put to shame, he who serves me will never fail.' All this is true of the book of Most High’s covenant, the law which Moses commanded us as an inheritance for the community of Jacob" (Sirach 24:20-22). Quoting from Sirach here is not endorsing it as Scripture; it only serves to illustrate how the Jewish people thought of Mosaic Law. It is important to understand the equating of bread with the Torah to appreciate Jesus’ real point.

@@sammygomes7381 You are discounting the words of life offered during the last supper during passover.

@@emmap1159 No my friend, you are discounting the ten times in John 6 He told the disciples they needed to believe He was the Son of God and they refused. Christ than used an old Jewish metaphor which didn't mater as John 3:18 tells us, " He who believes in Him is not condemned. But he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God." In Jewish thought, bread was equated with the Torah, and "eating of it" was reading and understanding the covenant of God (cf. Deuteronomy 8:3). For example, the apocryphal book of Sirach states, "'He who eats of me will hunger still, he who drinks of me will thirst for more; he who obeys me will not be put to shame, he who serves me will never fail.' All this is true of the book of Most High’s covenant, the law which Moses commanded us as an inheritance for the community of Jacob" (Sirach 24:20-22). Quoting from Sirach here is not endorsing it as Scripture; it only serves to illustrate how the Jewish people thought of Mosaic Law. It is important to understand the equating of bread with the Torah to appreciate Jesus’ real point.

Really? They didn't have chapters and verses when they wrote the bible.

I’m sorry for anyone who has been affected by the leadership of the Roman Catholic church. Please study God’s word for yourself. When you learn the truth, you will understand that Peter is not the Rock. Christ is the Rock *1 Corinthians 3:11.* Please study. ------------- The Rock of the church is spiritual, not physical. There is only one Rock. . *1 Corinthians 10:4* and all drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ. ------------- • Adding doctrines is apostasy and it’s forbidden. *Deuteronomy 4:2,* *Galatians 1:6-7* *Mark 7:7* Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. ------------- • There aren’t any officiating new covenant priests. We have a new ministry in the new covenant. *Ephesians 4:11* • God does not show favoritism *Romans 2:11* -- there is no evidence in the scriptures that the church was built on a human. We do not have a human pope to guide us. We are led by the Spirit. *Acts 1:5* ------------- • The scriptures show no differences in the apostles. ****Equality amongst the apostles**** “Ye are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone. *Ephesians 2:20* “And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.” *Revelation 21:14* • Peter was no different than the others. ------------- • Mary nor the saints can hear prayers. There’s only one mediator in heaven between God & Man. *1 Timothy 2:5* For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus, ------------- • All Christians are saints. *Philippians 1:1* Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons: ------------- • All Christians are priests. We are living stones being built in a spiritual house on a spiritual Rock. You can approach God fit forgiveness yourself. *1 Peter 2:5* Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. ------------- • The doctrine of original sin is not biblical or found in the scriptures at all. *Ezekiel 18:20* The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him. ------------- • Every Christian is supposed to study and read the Bible for themselves. *Acts 17:11* *Ephesians 3:4* As you read what I have written, you will understand my insight into this plan regarding Christ. *Psalm 119:15* I will study your commandments and reflect on your ways. ------------- • In order to receive salvation, we must all repent and accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and savior. We need no Eucharist, no veneration of Mary, no long list of good works, no baptism regeneration, no sacrament of reconciliation, no rosary, no pope, no papacy, no belief in Peter as the Rock *1 Corinthians 3:11,* no man-made doctrine, no priests, no infallible magisterium, no Vatican, no communion of saints, no catechisms, no Marian dogmas, no transubstantiation, but only by faith through grace are we saved. *Ephesians 2:8* "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast".

Actually it was a metaphor or do you think Christ is also a door? In Jewish thought, bread was equated with the Torah, and "eating of it" was reading and understanding the covenant of God (cf. Deuteronomy 8:3). For example, the apocryphal book of Sirach states, "'He who eats of me will hunger still, he who drinks of me will thirst for more; he who obeys me will not be put to shame, he who serves me will never fail.' All this is true of the book of Most High’s covenant, the law which Moses commanded us as an inheritance for the community of Jacob" (Sirach 24:20-22). Quoting from Sirach here is not endorsing it as Scripture; it only serves to illustrate how the Jewish people thought of Mosaic Law. It is important to understand the equating of bread with the Torah to appreciate Jesus’ real point.

​@sammygomes7381 But then what does the entirety of John 6 mean? In all the metaphors Christ spoke, the people he was presenting them to understood he was talking in metaphor. They weren't like: "but Jesus you are not a door!" This time however they took it litterally, and Jesus had multiple chances to correct them and tell them that he meant it figuratively, however he did not. And when people leave him for it, he asks his disciples if they too want to leave. Because Jesus' whole ministry hinged on this 1 teaching, where he was willing to lose all his apostles iver it.

@@Rachel91224 Here is the main problem with those in John 6 which Christ explains in John 3:18 "He who believes in Him is not condemned. But he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God." Christ told them about 10 times they needed to believe He was the Son of God before even using the metaphor and they refused because they failed to have ears to hear. When Christ asked the apostles look at verse 68-69. 68 Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have believed and have come to know that You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” The apostles understood as Peter said you have the “words” of life which is they believed Christ is the Son of God Do you remember how Christ explained the purpose of parables. In Luke, Christ was responding to a different parable, but He explained the reason for parables. Luke 8:910 He said, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God, but to others they are in parables, so that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand. I hope this helps, many blessings.

A metaphor doesn’t leave you ill or dying. 1Cor 11:27-30.

and then proved it to us time and time again through the Eucharistic miracles.

You can’t rely on a feeling…that can NEVER be our “go to”!! Our feelings lie to us!! Jeremiah said: The heart is desperately wicked!! Who can understand it. The heart is where our feelings flow

@@shawnjones2454 Well, scripture also backs up the Catholic view of communion, so there is that. In fact, scripture doesn't back up the Evangelical interpretation of the scriptures at all- and Evangelicals don't even accept all of the scriptures. The Church existed before the New Testament and was up and running. So- I'll go with that.

​@@michelledalenaathey could also be corrupted in all these years? The church that is no? Yes it can because it is ran by humans

just a psyche experience..nothing celestial..amen

Yes! One can know and be overcome with His presence because Jesus told us so.

Don't forget that Jesus had to argue with people on what he really meant. "How can we eat his flesh?" Only for him to double down with "you must eat my flesh." He didn't use an analogy, people were concerned because he was LITERALLY saying they must eat his flesh :)

My friend Christians were around hundreds of years before the Catholic church. Feel free to look in the word of God. Even a cursory reading of the New Testament will reveal that the Catholic Church does not have its origin in the teachings of Jesus or His apostles. In the New Testament, there is no mention of the papacy, worship/adoration of Mary (or the immaculate conception of Mary, the perpetual virginity of Mary, the assumption of Mary, or Mary as co-redemptrix and mediatrix), petitioning saints in heaven for their prayers, apostolic succession, the ordinances of the church functioning as sacraments, infant baptism, confession of sin to a priest, purgatory, indulgences, or the equal authority of church tradition and Scripture. As one can see the origin of the Catholic Church is not in the teachings of Jesus and His apostles, as recorded in the New Testament.

Amen brother

@@sammygomes7381 And then why do you ignore the early Church, A historical look at such things shows that the organization of the Church Began forming right away and that formed into the Catholic Church without demarcation, to deny that is silly as the main detractors were outright heretics like Arius

Sola Scriptura is true. Tradition is fine until it goes against scripture. Jesus even rebuke pharisees for their traditional beliefs over Scriptural beliefs.

Can I ask you a question coming from a genuine place? What gives you your conviction in this specific belief that it is Jesus’ literal body?

@@east_coastt the conviction I believe comes from being in the presence of the Blessed sacrament. When I was in process of receiving my confirmation I would go to the adoration chapel to talk to Jesus and sitting there you could feel his true presence. Not to mention all the supernatural events that occur when the Eucharist is brought forth, all the Eucharistic miracles that are proved by scientists, and even confirmed by the satanists. Satanists have been known to steal the Eucharist in order to degrade it at their events. Sadly satanists have more faith that it is Jesus than most Christians. Please spend time with Him in adoration and He will show you the truth. ❤ God Bless!

But everyone forgets the line “do this in remembrance of me” not recrucify me when I clearly stated “it is finished.”

​@xeverettx2564 why would He say "Do it in remembrance of me" if He didn't mean repeating that sacrifice by His followers? The first Christians were accused of being the cannibals, simply because they were talking about eating the Body and Blood of Christ. Btw, not one of the first Christians died because he was reading the Bible.

In Jewish thought, bread was equated with the Torah, and "eating of it" was reading and understanding the covenant of God (cf. Deuteronomy 8:3). For example, the apocryphal book of Sirach states, "'He who eats of me will hunger still, he who drinks of me will thirst for more; he who obeys me will not be put to shame, he who serves me will never fail.' All this is true of the book of Most High’s covenant, the law which Moses commanded us as an inheritance for the community of Jacob" (Sirach 24:20-22). Quoting from Sirach here is not endorsing it as Scripture; it only serves to illustrate how the Jewish people thought of Mosaic Law. It is important to understand the equating of bread with the Torah to appreciate Jesus’ real point.

​@@xeverettx2564The Eucharist isn't a recrucifixion, it's a commemoration. The rite is the memorial of the original sacrifice of Christ. It is an effective commemoration of his death that also makes present the Sacrifice on the Cross. Roman Catholics believe in the real presence, an issue that has dominated Catholic-protestant controversies about the Eucharist.

@sammygomes7381 funny, how you're pulling quotes from, oh, irony, from sources you recognize as apocryphal, to make it fit your narrative. In Gospel, Jesus clearly says, repeatedly, that His Body is the true food. Those who refused to believe it left Jesus. Interestingly, those who refuted that truth, are talked about in John's Gospel, under very telling number: 6,66 " From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him." It seems that you assume Catholics don't know Scriptures. Our Church collected and canonized that book in the fourth century. Whole twelve centuries before Martin Luther started questioning the validity of Bible teaching done by the Church. Twelve centuries! 1200 years! Have you ever read what people living in the fifth, sixth, seventh century wrote about Body and Blood of our Lord? Have you heard about Eucharistic Miracles? The first recorded miracle happened in Lanciano, Italy. We're talking eight century! More than 600 years before Luther was even born, before he altered 73 books in Bible, cutting the number down to, well, 66. Removing 7. God's number of perfection.

Sadly closer to the truth than many Catholics if pew research is to be believed

Most Christians have ears to hear and know they are saved by faith in Christ not eating bread.

​@sammygomes7381 Jesus also said we are saved by faith and obedience (John 3:36). One of his commands is that unless we eat his body and drink his blood, we have no life in us (John 6:53). We are saved by both faith (believing in the Eucharist) and obedience (receiving the Eucharist).

@@WC3isBetterThanReforged To prevent being misconstrued, Jesus specifies that He has been speaking metaphorically: “The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you-they are full of the Spirit and life” (John 6:63). One might ask themselves if Christ said we were suppose to eat Hin how come the apostles never said mass or preached such a message let alone telling us how to change bread into Christ. What the apostles preached was we are saved by faith.

@sammygomes7381 St. Justin Martyr's description of 2nd century Christian worship in his First Apology, chapter 66 describes the Eucharist as the actual body and blood of Jesus as do several other apostolic fathers. St. Paul and St. John both wrote of passing on Jesus's teaching not just in scripture but in oral tradition. Much of that oral tradition was recorded by the Apostolic Fathers. Ignatius of Antioch, Iraneus and Clement of Alexandria are but a few, Ignatius himself being a disciple of John.

Jesus Christ is the eucharist. In Him we thank the Lord. Bread is bread, but Jesus is the Bread of Life.

Jesus used a metaphor

Yes my friend, that is the keys to heaven Christ gave to all believers.

i think you may be confusing Peter as the rock of the church as it says in the verses before. But if you trace it back to the Greek you can see that Peter is not the rock but Christ. It would not make much sense for God to place the church of his believers on a sinful man like us that would eventually die.

@@BrodyStag Eph 2:20 supports your statement as all the apostles and prophets were the foundation of the church but Christ was the cornerstone.

That is the key to the kingdom of heaven which every believer possesses.

@@sammygomes7381 yeah i don’t see where we differ unless i am missing something. I just believe that Jesus is the only key as you said. And the Church, which is made up of all his believers, not a specific denomination or building, is built upon Christ not Peter.

Jesus doesn't need those things...he is present even if you don't have a Bible...call his name

You dont need all these traditions to get to Jesus...he wants a personal relationship with you

Thank you, I will take your advice and ignore 2,000 years of Christian theology.

@@tlng9466 where does it say you have to take it...

Hmmm almost identical to needing to drink the living water He spoke about to the woman at the well. Do you drink the living water or did you understand it to was a metaphor?

@@sammygomes7381 read the Greek Christ doubles down and uses the Greek verb of gnawing like an animal. The living water is both metaphorical and literal seeing as both Blood and Water mingled when Christ was pierced by a spear

​@@spoodermensNot saying i have a perfect understanding or can't be wrong, but isnt Johns gospel the most metaphorical out of them all? Its a gospel where Jesus puposefully says a confusing thing to have the pharisees, or any listener really co pletely misunderstand him, giving him an oppurtunity to clarify what he means. One user above gave the living water example but we dont imagine we have to drink from a flowing river. Unless im mistaken Jesus also says his flesh is bread from heaven but we'd have to imagine, if literal, that his human flesh was residing in heaven literally then descended down into the womb literally. Once again i'm not against the presence of Jesus being *able* to be in the eucharist, especially through the spirit, but I wonder if thats the meaning John/Jesus intended to communicate to us through that gospel.

@@youngknowledgeseeker this is the problem with protestantism. You don't quiet understand how to read the scriptures because you all have cut yourselves off from church history and tradition. John's gospel isn't metaphorical, everything Christ says has a double or even triple layer to it. It's always more than just literal or metaphorical, plus with Church tradition and writings from the early Church fathers that help us to better understand scripture with applying the traditions of the first four centuries of the church. Plus the writings of Justin Martyr to the Roman Emporer to show what and how Christians celebrated is the Liturgy of the Catholic Mass. They ate Eucharist and they most certainly believed in the presence of Christ in the Eucharist and not just a symbol.

@@spoodermens I don't think you really fully read my post nor did you really try to engage what we were saying objectively...

Mean things such as that you apparently believe in cannibalism? I have heard that Christ was "...100% man and 100% god..." the body being the part that made him man--not God. Consuming ("literal...") flesh of man is the definition of cannibalism. All I'm saying is, you might want to stop and think about what sort of 'God' would consider that 'worship'...

@@evanmabry895 ✝️Crux sancta sit mihi lux / Non draco sit mihi dux Vade retro satana / Numquam suade mihi vana Sunt mala quae libas / Ipse venena bibas✝️

@@Braingrandchild I don't speak Latin, but I'm going to guess it's something along the lines of '...the BLOOD! Salvation is in the Blood! Bow your head and be grateful for the POWER OF BLOOD! Only the Purest Blood will do for our rituals... upon the proper recitation of our spell-prayer, this water is transmuted into sweet, fresh(?) BLOOD! DRINK and rejoice for the shedding of blooooood!' ...Close enough. It's a fallen world... You think satan--the 'Father of Lies'-- couldn't deceive you into participating in a symbolic slaughter of your own God on a weekly basis? What exactly do you think of when you think of satanic ritual, if not BLOOD SACRIFICE...?

Nope, I was saved by Faith in Christ and from that moment on He is in me. 1 Corinthians 6:19 What? Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God, and that you are not your own? 2 Corinthians 13:5 Examine yourselves, seeing whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not know that Jesus Christ is in you?-unless indeed you are disqualified.

when jesus appeared to his disciples after his resurrection, he said he was flesh and bone, not flesh and blood. that blood was spilled once and for all. the bread was his flesh which he gave for the life of the world, on the cross. john 6:47-57.

Have you actually been to a Mass???

You really don't know anything and your explaining it

How much more man-made can it get than "let's all symbolically participate in the ritual murder of God every week-- and devour the body!!" People will believe anything if the spectacle is 'juicy' enough...

@@GypsyKnave Your first mistake is that it is "symbolic." Go back to the Gospel of John 6 and read the original Greek. Then tell me how that becomes symbolism when Jesus then gives His body and blood at the new Passover meal (His Last Supper) as a participation in His sacrifice on the Cross (the new Pascal Lamb).

Nice try but Christians have eyes to see and ears to hear and understand a Jewish metaphor when they read it. In Jewish thought, bread was equated with the Torah, and "eating of it" was reading and understanding the covenant of God (cf. Deuteronomy 8:3). For example, the apocryphal book of Sirach states, "'He who eats of me will hunger still, he who drinks of me will thirst for more; he who obeys me will not be put to shame, he who serves me will never fail.' All this is true of the book of Most High’s covenant, the law which Moses commanded us as an inheritance for the community of Jacob" (Sirach 24:20-22). Quoting from Sirach here is not endorsing it as Scripture; it only serves to illustrate how the Jewish people thought of Mosaic Law. It is important to understand the equating of bread with the Torah to appreciate Jesus’ real point.

@@sammygomes7381 Jesus' words saying this IS my body and this IS my blood are pretty clear he means the bread and wine literally are his body and blood. The Mosaic Law was fulfilled by Jesus coming to us and giving us the Eucharist, he tells us to DO THIS IN MEMORY OF ME. there's no if ands or buts about his instruction and no allegory or parable when he says this. Jesus is the Word made flesh and he tells us to eat him both in the Eucharist and in reading the scriptures. It's both, not one or the other.

@@sammygomes7381 Looking at the Greek again, Jesus keeps ratcheting it up each time he says, "Unless you (eat)...." We do not translate that into English well enough. He literally says masticate and naw (like a dog on a bone). If Jesus meant it as a mere metaphor and symbol, he would have downplayed it instead of kicking it up a notch each time. The people would not have found it as a hard word and have been repulsed by it leaving the Son of Man. Peter said it best knowing that it was the truth when Jesus asked if the apostles too would leave. "Where else are we to go? You have the words of eternal life." The disciples thought he was talking about cannibaliam. Jesus is a Divine Person (divine nature and human nature). The flesh is of no avail unless it is of the Spirit. Therefore, Christ's body and blood soul and divinity is present in the Eucharistic meal instituted at the last supper and offered up in the eternal sacrifice on the cross. He then reveals all things to Cleopus and the other disciple on the road to Emmaus in Luke 24. And when they ask him to stay, their eyes are opened as to who he is as the risen Christ during the breaking of the bread. This is the eucharist and the first Mass offered by Jesus after His resurrection as the eternal high priest according to the royal order of Melkiezadek. We then see the breaking of the bread over and over as the apostles and presbyters carry it on in remembrance of Jesus as an everlasting memorial. We see Paul talk about receiving communion in 1 Corinthians 10. Paul and Luke were friends and apostolic colleagues, and they also knew the other apostles and the Virgin Mary. These are all first hand accounts. Everything from the ram in thorns when Abraham did not hold back his only begotten son from being offered to God, to the Pascal Lamb of Passover to the manna in the desert to the Eucharist are all in sequence. There is no contradiction nor mincing of words. Christ means what he says and says what he means. Otherwise, he is a liar or a lunatic as C.S. Lewis says. He is God and can do whatever he wants. And he doesn't need the interpretation of someone in the 1500s or the 2000s to determine what he meant in the 30s AD.

Why do you not believe that anything is possible to God our heavenly father.

@paddypipe9218 The gospel of salvation is underpinned by prophecy and truths hidden in the Old Testament and revealed in The New. Apart from the promise to Eve in Genesis, the annunciation to Mary in the New Testament, and Mary's interaction at the wedding feast in Canna there is no other reference and certainly not to her being alive in heaven and for us to pray to her. Jesus told us to 'Ask' the Father in His name. We come as heirs and priests. Mary is not our mediator. Gives a false impression of the way that Jesus provided for us all to enter into the presence of God.

@@marty1234able our lady is our go between with God true you don't have to pray to her to be saved but I do know she brought me back to God from a very dangerous place ie the secular materialistic world I've felt both her and jesus love and she loves us very much but jesus loves us way beound description. I have started to read the bible and it's a good guide line to God but remember it was written by men and men are fallible some things are beound explanation and as jesus said to Thomas you believe because you have seen happy are those who have not seen and yet believe. Jesus made Mary the mother of us all while dying on the cross I suggest if you have any further questions about her you ask him because it's pretty obvious your not going to believe anything anyone here says because you had judged before you even answered a neather quote from jesus judge not and you shall not be judged. You don't believe in the emaculate conception so tell me how do you believe jesus was conceived.

@paddypipe9218 I'm very glad that you have been saved from a dark place, Patrick. No disputing that, my friend. I do believe 100% in the immaculate conception it was as a result of the first messianic prophecy God spoke to Eve in Genesis chapter 3. Also, again, in Isaiah 7 :14. As for the bible being the work of man and corrupted, we differ in opinion. It must be accepted that scripture is the inerrant word of God and inspired by the Holy Spririt. Otherwise, we are open to dispute of every kind. Revelations, for instance, were. written by John but in the direction of Jesus, sending an angel to tell John what to write. Rev 1 :1. For me, scripture is the key to my understanding. Although the Catholic Church does rely on tradition, too.

@@marty1234able very fair assessment but only one point I didn't say the bible was corrupted I said it was written by men and men are fallible ie prone to mistakes or remembering things differently.

Had us in the first half not gonna lie 😅

Amen

Catholics literally worship Mary. First of all calling someone the queen of heaven is idolatry, and they also crown a statue of Mary and kneel and pray to it, during the May crowning. That’s idolatry as described in the Bible!

Imagine if folks could take those words to heart, and ponder what it would mean to live a pure life with each bite they took... It would be a completely different world than the one where priests advertise "come one, come all; there plenty of FLESH AND BLOOD to go around!!"

That is a dishonest misrepresentation of what transubstantiation is. We participate in one and the same sacrifice. No-one believes we literally resacrifice Jesus Remember, bearing false witness like this is a sin. Without lies , Protestantism dies.

And He does it through His minister, the priest.

Christ's sacrifice on Calvary was done once, but He loves us and gives Himself to us EVERYDAY!

@aprilbarter Upon his death Christ said IT IS DONE. The romans say: DO IT EVERYDAY. Man cannot follow Christ and the catechism, it is not possible.

1 Timothy 2: 5-6 says: For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the mana Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time. Don’t pray to Mary, she can’t do anything. Pray to Jesus.

But Jesus clearly said in John 6 that the Eucharist is required for salvation

@Big Chungus This is true. But it is also true that in John:1 that the Word was made flesh. If we are to eat the flesh, is it possible it is refferring to the word? That is what we need to take from and eat from. Is he perhaps talking about consuming spiritual food?

​@maazzaaa1 you failed to understand the message. Jesus said " If you do not eat my body and drink my blood, you have no life in you". The Eucharist is really Jesus, how else are we to get it? If not through how He showed the disciples during the Last Supper? He said "This is My Body, take and eat. This is my Blood, rake and drink". He then ended "Do this in memory of me". The message in the video may not be clear on first look. But Fr meant we are worst because we don't really believe and we don't reverence Jesus enough.

@Amalachukwu Immaculata Muoghalu I read the passage. And I admit it is one that is quite complicated. I believe we all fall short of the understanding of Gods word. May I ask you, if one does not consume the Eucharist, does that mean they can not be saved? I understood Mike's message very well. And may I add I quite respect and love him for I believe he is truly a man on fire for the Lord.

​​@@maazzaaa1 If one knowingly and willingly rejects the Holy Eucharist, that is communion with Jesus, he cannot be saved. Salvation IS communion with Jesus.

There's no protestants in the Bible

@@fraxinus7399 that's right!

@@fraxinus7399 Just believers in Christ Jesus that is the body of Christ.

Wrong. Saint Peter, all the apostles, and everyone mentioned in the bible that joined the Church were Catholics. Now before you say "No, the word "Catholic" isn't used so they weren't actually Catholics". At that time the Catholic Church was the only Church, so they had no reason to use the word "Catholic". Also the use of the word Catholic to describe the Church came around pretty quickly, first observed at around 107 AD.

@@gorbshal2598 The church is the body of believers in Christ, not a religion, institution or building made with hands

no. the gift of the holy spirit at pentecost was given that they should be his witnesses, declaring the gospel to all men. the true worshippers worship God in spirit and in truth. the mystery revealed is christ in you. temples of God. his body, "flesh and bone", is seated on the throne with the father. his blood was spilled on earth once and for all.

If you think they are truly the blood and flesh of Christ remember where you leave Him a few hours later.

People say that about hugging a tree, it's called emotions. We receive Christ through faith. 1 Corinthians 6:19 What? Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God, and that you are not your own? 2 Corinthians 13:5 Examine yourselves, seeing whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not know that Jesus Christ is in you?-unless indeed you are disqualified. Ephesians 1: 13 In Him you also, after hearing the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and after believing in Him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, 14 who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.

"ascends upon me and a powerful way, i even get warm all over my body" sounds demonic