FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:
July 29
THE GOSPEL OF CHRISTIANITY’S CHRIST vs THE ‘GOSPEL’ OF ROME’S ANTICHRIST – (Part 9)
See Part 8 before proceeding.
“We now have before us the ONLY means of salvation in the Roman Catholic GOSPEL, as presented by men of unquestionable authority among them. This throws light on the reason why the Catholic priest has such a HOLD on his people. They dare not oppose him, because he represents their ONLY means of contact with heaven.
Cut off from the CHURCH, they feel they are LOST; but they do not know of a CHRIST who has come all the way DOWN to the lost sinner’s side, to whom they can come PERSONALLY and receive FORGIVENESS through GRACE alone. The DIVINE LADDER HAS BEEN CUT OFF, and Mary, saints, and priests have been SUBSTITUTED. But the Bible knows of only ‘ONE MEDIATOR,’ Jesus Christ. (1 Tim. 2:5; Ps. 49: 7, 8.).
“But we have not yet gone to the DEPTH OF THIS SUBSTITUTE ‘MYSTERY.’ Let us now take the next step. Having removed the living Christ from contact with the sinner, they had to SUBSTITUTE something else to satisfy the longing of the human heart for the INDWELLING presence of Christ.
“And that substitute is the ‘SACRIFICE OF THE MASS.’ The Roman Church teaches that the priest in the mass CHANGES the little wafer into the REAL CHRIST, which they then fall down and worship, after which they EAT Him, believing that they have become PARTAKERS of Christ and receive FORGIVENESS of sin. Thus they have substituted a MAN-MADE Christ for a LIVING Christ! St. Alphonsus de Liguori says:” – ‘Facts of Faith,’ Christian Edwardson, p. 207, Southern Publishing Asso., Nashville, TN: 1943.
Help your Catholic relatives, friends, and associates know the truth regarding real meaning of the Sacrifice of the Mass, by first understanding this topic of the Gospel of Christ vs the ‘Gospel’ of the Roman church.
(To be continued). Bless all, NMF