Why Do 2/3 of Catholics NOT Believe in the Eucharist? Recent Pew Poll Re...

My personal comment on the subject of the two videos below on Catholic unbelief in Jesus' Real Presence in the Eucharist:

One (of many) advantages of being a convert: Before coming home to the Catholic Church (from 'low-church' Anglicanism) I had already accepted the idea of transubstantiation. For Marian doctrines however I really struggled. Then I was able to accept all teachings for I was converting to The Church that Jesus established. The Church that taught with divine authority. That made things, um, "easy". If The Church taught it I simply had to accept it. My _reason_ resulted in _faith_ . We all need to be taught about The Church and her authority and how The Church proceeds the bible. We need to be taught to accept the hard teachings of Our Lord. *AND* We must do away with the ordinary, every-day things that contaminate the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass ... Dress up to receive the King of the Universe; No more ordinary language (the Anglicans used Old(er) English just to set the worship apart from the rest of life); Don't treat the church like some social club or meeting room (IE, be as silent as you can); HARDEST OF ALL (because it involves changing a part of the Mass we've been troubled with since abou 1970) -- DO AWAY WITH THE "SIGN OF PEACE" right after bread and wine become God!!!

 Here are a couple of discussions about our poor Catholic brethren who do not believe a VERY central teaching of The Church:

 

DON'T DISREGARD YOUR DUTY OF SILENCE BEFORE THE BLESSED SACRAMENT

From a Facebook group:

Understanding the Blessed Virgin Mary

July 11, 2015 · 

The laity disregard their duty of silence before the Blessed Sacrament. They forget the stern warning of little Jacinta of Fatima, “Our Lady does not want people to talk in church”. The Need for Reparation In 1916, a year before Our Lady’s visitations at Fatima, the “Angel of the Eucharist” appeared with Chalice and Host to the children. He administered the Sacred species to the three children saying, “Eat and drink the Body and Blood of Our Lord, horribly outraged by ungrateful men. Make reparation for their crimes and console your God.” The Angel left the chalice and the Host suspended in the air, and prostrated himself before It. The children imitated him. The Angel then prayed repeatedly this act of reparation: “Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Ghost, I offer Thee the Most Precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in all the tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges and indifference by which He Himself is offended. And by the infinite merits of His most Sacred Heart and of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg of Thee the conversion of poor sinners.” Let us commit to memory this prayer and say it throughout the day as often as possible. The “outrages, sacrileges and indifference” toward the Blessed Sacrament engendered by the Vatican II revolution are unprecedented, probably the worst in history. Sacrilege is so commonplace that it is no longer recognized as sacrilege. The need for reparation is colossal. Image may contain: one or more people

"GO TO HELL"

This post was inspired a few minutes ago while following a discussion by some Christians online.

What's the very worst thing that a person can say to someone?

The very worst, BY FAR, is "go to hell". It is much more mild if, in a fit of rage, a man says to a woman "go get raped".

THINK about it.

I far too often hear or read these horrid words.

THERE IS NOTHING WORSE THAT CAN HAPPEN TO A PERSON THAN GOING TO HELL.

Nothing.

There are many horrible things that can befall us in this world. A car accident. A violent attack on our person or our family. War. Debilitating diseases. Loosing a limb, or our eyesight, or hearing,etc.

All these things are only temporal. But hell is forever.

Always remember this: in five hundred million years from today you will still be alive. Even after your body has long decayed your soul will be around ... followed by eternal bliss or eternal damnation.

Happy Birthday Catholic Church!

I have often heard that Pentecost marks the berth of the Catholic Church, but I also see the "Great Commission" given by Our Lord just before His Ascension as being a beginning.

To celebrate this great feast I'd to share a video from Gloria.TV:

Veni Sancte Spiritus
https://gloria.tv/video/qeTax1ZWescf3Ajz8x3JSyqpH

The Wisdom of the Flesh is DEATH ...

Great video about the "Catholic Take on Dracula, Zombies, Frankenstein and Halloween"

Take some time and listen to this.
As suggested in the video, you can speed it up using the 'gear' icon at the bottom of the video screen so that it doesn't take quite so long to listen to.

Dominus vobiscum!

I decided to repost this.  I've been bothered by the lack of understanding of the significance of All Saint's Day and its Eve for a long time now.  So here, from 2014, is my post on Halloween/ All Hallows Eve:

Halloween is an important Christian day  --  the eve of the Feast of All Saints.

Every year though I read people asking whether or not it is "OK" for a Christian to celebrate Halloween.
The answer is a resounding YES!

Our modern world is being strongly influenced by the enemy.  Satin is convincing people that he simply does not exist and that hell does not exist.
Halloween reminds us of our own mortality and of the FACT that evil exists.
We are fighting a battle.  One that is more important than a simple "life or death" war.  This war is for our immortal souls.  If we begin to forget evil, when we stop thinking about the four last things (Death, Judgement, Heaven and Hell) we put more than our mortal lives in danger.  We risk our own immortal lives and the lives of everyone else.  This is a battle we cannot fight alone.  For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood; but against principalities and power, against the rulers of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high places.Ephesians 6:12

Not only that but the very celebration is a Catholic (and therefore Christian) day.
My major beef with the way we celebrate Halloween is two-fold:  1) That we tone down evil and turn it into a fun time with no actual admission that evil exists.  2)  That society celebrates the eve of All Saints Day but not the Feast itself.  That is like celebrating Christmas Eve rather than Christmas.


Others have done research into the myths surrounding Halloween and its origins, so I'll give you links to those sources:

• Halloween: A Catholic View

The Reality of Evil Points Us Toward the Good

 

Much of the modern aversion to Halloween, I think, stems from the same unwillingness to acknowledge the reality of evil. But there's a reason why we dress up as ghouls and goblins on the night before we celebrate the feast of All Saints Day, and, despite the claims of supposed satanists and Wiccans and anti-Halloween Christians like Jack Chick, it's actually a Christian reason: We believe in a world that extends beyond the one that we can see, a world in which angels and demons do contest for the souls of men, and the Prince of Lies grows in power by convincing people that he does not exist.
If for no reason other than the fact that it reminds us that, as Hamlet tells his friend, "There are more things in heaven  and earth, Horatio, / Than are dreamt of in your philosophy," Halloween is worth celebrating.

• Should Catholics Celebrate Halloween?

The Christian Origins of All Hallows Eve

 

The Christian Origins of Halloween

"Halloween" is a name that means nothing by itself. It is a contraction of "All Hallows Eve," and it designates the vigil of All Hallows Day, more commonly known today as All Saints Day. ("Hallow," as a noun, is an old English word for saint. As a verb, it means to make something holy or to honor it as holy.) All Saints Day, November 1, is a Holy Day of Obligation, and both the feast and the vigil have been celebrated since the early eighth century, when they were instituted by Pope Gregory III in Rome. (A century later, they were extended to the Church at large by Pope Gregory IV.)

Finally there's another good resource again addressing the false pagan origins of Halloween:

• Halloween or Samhain?

 The belief that Halloween is pagan in origin is a myth. Many neo-pagan websites claim that it was an attempt by early Christians to “baptize” the Gaelic harvest festival of Samhain. Because of this persistent myth, some Christians are hesitant to participate in anything associated with Halloween.

Holy Michael Archangel, defend us in the day of battle; be our safeguard against the wickedness and snares of the devil. -- May God rebuke him, we humbly pray: and do thou, Prince of the heavenly host, by the power of God thrust down to hell Satin and all the wicked spirits, who wander through the world for the ruin of souls.
Amen.