“One night while Paul was in Corinth, The Lord said to him in a vision, ‘Do not be afraid. Go on speaking, and do not be silent, for I am with you. No one will attack and harm you, for I have many people in this city.’ He stayed there for a year and a half, and taught The Word of God among them.”
Why does The Bible tell us that God ordered St. Paul to “go on speaking” and “not be silent”?
Because St. Paul was a Catholic priest! He was Ordained to provide The Catholic Miracle of Transubstantiation that changes bread and wine into The Body and Blood of He Who Fulfilled the Prophecies!
He was also a Catholic Bishop! He was empowered by the Blessing of Peter, The First Catholic Pope, to ordain Catholic priests in parishes he founded in Turkey, Greece, and possibly Spain. Then, St. Paul went to Rome and was killed by anti-Catholics for the crime of “Being Catholic”.
This great Catholic Saint asked two “Yes” or “No” Questions in 1 Corinthians 10:16-21,
Question 1: “The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ?”
Question 2: “The bread which we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?”
Every Catholic has been called and chosen, by God to answer “Yes!” for the past 2,000 years!
The usual anti-Catholics did not agree! “But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews rose up together against Paul and brought him to the Tribunal, saying, ‘This man is inducing people to worship God contrary to the law.'”
That means that none of them could rationally argue with Paul and his connection of Jesus to the hundreds of Jewish Prophecies that predicted His being born of a Virgin of The House of David (Isaiah 7:14), in the tiny village of Bethlehem (Micah 5:2). So, they tried to get the powers of the state to make him stop telling the truth! That’s what everyone who thinks they know more than God’s Prophets always do!
Then, a “Hidden Prophecy” predicted that those who hated the pure, Pro-Life Catholic Teaching from Jesus, who repeated His Call to Catholic Communion 14 times: “If you do not eat My Body and drink My Blood, you do not have life in you.” would attack the people who could not get the state to attack the Catholic Church: “They all seized Sosthenes, the synagogue official, and beat him in full view of the Tribunal.”!
To this day, God’s most blessed people, His Catholic priests, religious, and believers, are still attacked for following the Truth of The Church-Creating Word of Jesus to His First Catholic Pope! “And I say unto you, ‘Thou art Peter and on this rock I build My Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I give you the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven.'”
Those who do not join in the attack against those who are blessed with The Seven Catholic Sacraments are punished for not overcoming the “Hidden Prophecy” of Psalm 47:2-7 and see their disobedience to Words of God keep them from being “chosen”:
“But God is King of all the earth… He chooses us (Catholics!) for our inheritance, the glory of Jacob whom He loves… Sing praise to God, sing praise; sing praise to our King, sing praise.”
Today, we learn from Luke 24:46,26. Today’s “Alleluia” is another “Prophecy” that is not “Hidden” from Catholics! “Christ had to suffer and to rise from the dead, and so enter into His glory.”
That leads Catholics to Today’s Gospel, John 16:20-23, when “Jesus said to His disciples: ‘Amen, amen, I say to you, you will weep and mourn while the world rejoices; you will grieve, but your grief will become joy.” Then, Jesus tells Catholics the blessings we will receive by Being Catholic!
“When a woman is in labor, she is in anguish because her hour has arrived; but when she has given birth to a child, she no longer remembers the pain because of her joy that a child has been born into the world.”
That is a “Hidden Prophecy” of what happens when Catholics receive The Body and Blood of Jesus at what may have been more than one hundred and fifty billion Catholic Masses in the past 2,000 years!
And, it predicts the joy that Catholics receive for eternity! “No one will take your joy away from you.”
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Today’s Simple Rhyme: “Do not ‘anguish’! / Do not languish! / Be as Catholic as we can!”
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