FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:
August 6
THE GOSPEL OF CHRISTIANITY’S CHRIST VS THE ‘GOSPEL’ OF ROME’S ANTICHRIST – (Part 15)
“Pastor Charles Chiniquy, a former Catholic priest says: ‘No words can give any idea of the pleasure I USED to feel when alone, prostrated before THE CHRIST THAT I HAD MADE AT THE MORNING MASS [emphasis mine] I poured out my heart at His feet [the wafer is shaped like a round wafer]….I may say with truth, that the happiest hours I ever had, during the long years of darkness into which the Church of Rome had plunged me, were the hours passed adoring THE CHRIST WHOM I HAD MADE WITH MY OWN LIPS [when the priest pronounces these words in the moment of the consecration of the sacrifice of the Catholic mass: ‘Hoc est Corpus Meum’]. . . . ‘
Chiniquy further says:
“In fact the Roman Catholics have NO OTHER SAVIOR whom they can betake to themselves THAN THE ONE MADE by the consecration of the WAFER. He is the only Savior who is NOT ANGRY with them, and who does NOT REQUIRE THE MEDIATION of virgins and saints to APPEASE His wrath.’—-‘Fifty Years in the Church of Rome,’ chapter 17, pars. 29, 31.
“In the thirty-sixth chapter of his book Pastor Chiniquy tells how he was led to question seriously THIS WORSHIP of Rome’s WAFER-GOD, the ‘HOST.’ ‘In the spring of 1840….Father Daule [an old blind priest, was residing with him at Beauport, Quebec.]. In the morning when the old priest was at the altar, saying his mass, [and had just changed the wafer into the real Christ, and was reaching for it, and it was gone.
He called to Chiniquy] with a shriek of distress. ‘The good God has disappeared from the altar. HE IS LOST!’ [emphasis mine]. [Chiniquy, remembering how often rats tried to get the wafer while he himself had officiated there, knew what had happened, and in his consternation replied:] ‘Some rats have dragged and eaten the good God!’ [The sorrow of the old priest knew no bounds, but Chiniquy declared:] ‘If I were God Almighty, and a miserable rat would come to eat me, I would surely strike him dead.’ ‘—-Ibid., chap. 36, pars. 7, 13, 24.” Quoted from “Facts of Faith,” Christian Edwardson, p. 209, (Revised), Southern Publishing Asso., Nashville 8 TN: 1943.
When my wife and I got married 45 years ago at a Roman Catholic Church, I partook of wafer-host at the Mass said for the wedding, not fully realizing what I was doing then!
Countless millions were and are still in the same deceived state as I once was! Only the pure gospel “truth as it is in Jesus”will set us free from the heavy chains of ignorance.
(To be continued). Bless all, NMF