Malachi 1:11: For from the rising of the sun to its setting my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense is offered to my name, and a pure offering; for my name is great among the nations, says the Lord of hosts.
Hebrews 13:10: We have an altar from which those who serve the tent [the tabernacle of the Jewish temple] have no right to eat.
The Bible tells us that there is a priesthood and sacrifice under the new covenant of Christ. There is no way that a service of the Word or a Protestant communion service can be considered the sacrificial act that prophecy and St. Paul speaks about. However, we do find such elements in the teaching and practice of the Catholic Church. We have an altar of sacrifice and a pure offering, nothing other than the body and blood of Christ in the sacramental species.
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Dear Fr Joe,
Thank you for that very kind and compassionate prayer, I will keep it with love for those dark days.
Paul
Also, I can’t find the right heading, but I’ve just had to have my dear old dog, Henry, put to sleep, and the house seems very empty. I know that Heaven is such enormous joy and bliss with the all encompassing love of God Himself that there will be no need for anything extra, but the ‘space’ that Henry occupied both in my heart and my home was enormous and, just at this moment, the consolation of my Catholic faith doesn’t quite take the pain away. It will pass, I know, but it’s really tough going through it. My life had been very full of loss, and each time another dose of that particular suffering comes along I feel I will not cope. Up till now, I have, but sometimes God seems very, very quiet.
With love,
Paul
And the ‘non-Catholics’, what on Earth happens to them, Limbo no longer exists, Purgatory is the start of the journey unto Heaven itself, and Hell is reserved for those who die in the state of Mortal Sin. So where do the ‘good Protestants’ go? Also, I remember from the penny catechism, that to commit Mortal Sin there had to be:– “Grave matter, full knowledge and full conscent”> it must, surely, be difficult to commit ‘mortal sin’ or am I like a small boy whistling in the dark?
Paul
The Israelites, those chosen by God to inherit the promised land and follow The Law of Moses must surely be entitled to an afterlife even if they neither saw it that way nor believed in one; after all didn’t Moses and Abraham (or was it Elijah?) appear to Jesus at the Transfiguration, witnessed by some of the Apostles, and if that were so then they must have been saved at that point, unless, of course, they were in Limbo with a special dispensation for Earthly manifestation. So, it seems that a Jew can be saved as long as he is a good Jew, and maybe the same for a Muslim as long as he is a good follower of Islam. And such must also be the opportunity for salvation for our seperated bretheren even if they don’t believe in Transubstantiation.
Perhaps we will all stand naked before Our Lord and Master for that final judgement after our earthly death, and then be given the choice to accept Him as truely God, or deny him and be consigned to an eternity of total isolation from all that is Good. Anyway, I presume that time is purely a worldly constraint, and something that does not limit the expansion of our Immortal Souls after the body is dead. Or is it only Catholics and some Orthodox Churches who believe in The Eucharist as established by Jesus prior to His death on a cross and the Easter Resurrection, who will find a place in God’s Heavenly Kingdom?
I’ve often struggled with this awful dilemma, and have never really found an acceptable answer, can you shed a little more light on it please Fr Joe.
From Paul