Thursday, April 26, 2001

What Happens to "Jesus" When Rome is Done With Him?

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Youngstown, Ohio has some rules in it's diocesan guidelines for "Extraordinary Ministers of the Eucharist" on how a person should handle the Roman "Jesus Christ" when he's "under the species" of bread and wine.

First of all, "extraordinary ministers" are lay people who have to pass out the eucharist during Mass because there aren't enough priests. In referring to the vessels containing the Roman Jesus (eucharist) it says, "The containers may be of any worthy non-absorbent material."

Interesting. If a wooden chalice is used, (wood was worthy enough for the cross) the Roman Jesus could be absorbed and locked into the wood. Or, don't spill him - will then the Roman Jesus be locked into a rag or paper towel?

As regarding the bread side of things, only the doctrine of the eucharist could turn Jesus Christ into a crumb on a plate. What if all the crumbs aren't eaten or picked up? Do the ants eat the Roman Jesus? Does he end up in a vacuum cleaner bag? And we all know what the human digestive process turns the Roman Jesus into after a few hours - I need not go any further! How Satan must laugh that people can believe the God of the universe can be reduced to such circumstances.

The guidelines also say, "Rinse the cups/chalice with a small amount of water and consume it or pour it in the sacrarium." A "sacrarium", to quote from 'Father' Paul Turner's article on the internet, "is a special sink found in...most Catholic churches. The first time you see one it looks like someone made it wrong. The drain opens into a pipe that bypasses the sewer and runs straight down into the earth...In this way any remaining particles of communion are washed into the earth."

Hmmmm......so according to Rome, Jesus can end up being "particles" flushed out on to the ground. This is the conclusion the Roman doctrine of the eucharist brings us to.

The real Jesus of the bible was put in the ground 2000 years ago, but He rose out of the ground three days later and now sits at the right hand of the Father where, "HE IS ABLE ALSO TO SAVE THEM TO THE UTTERMOST THAT COME UNTO GOD BY HIM, SEEING HE EVER LIVETH TO MAKE INTERCESSION FOR THEM." Hebrews 7:25.

Our choice of Jesus is very clear - either the Roman Jesus who is called a "particle", dumped onto the ground, or subject to stomach acids. Or the Jesus of the bible who is at the right hand of the Father. I'll take the Jesus of the bible.