For 2,000 years, Catholics have not let “plotters” keep us from The Actual Body and Blood of Jesus.
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Question 1: “Where does The Bible tell about those who ‘plot’ against God and do evil to His followers?”
Answer: “One example is in Today’s Reading from Jeremiah 18:18-29. ‘The people of Judah and the citizens of Jerusalem said, ‘Come, let us contrive a plot against Jeremiah. It will not mean the loss of instruction from the priests, nor of counsel from the wise, nor of messages from the prophets. And so, let us destroy him by his own tongue; let us carefully note his every word.’
‘Plotters’ believed that God would not turn away from them, even if they killed His Prophet.”
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Question 2: “Why did these pre-Christian Protestant ‘plotters’ want to destroy Jeremiah?”
Answer: “Jeremiah esplains: ‘Heed me, O Lord, and listen to what my adversaries say.
Must good be repaid with evil that they should dig a pit to take my life?
Remember that I stood before You to speak in their behalf, to turn away Your wrath from them.’
These early Willful Protestants ‘plotted to take his life’ because they hated Jeremiah for telling them to put God ‘before’ their own desires.”
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Question 3: “Do The Psalms tell of other people ‘plotting’ against God?”
Answer: “Psalm 31:14 is clear: ‘I hear the whispers of the crowd, that frighten me from every side, as they consult together against me, plotting to take my life.’”
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Question 4: “Did Jesus know that He would be tortured and killed by ‘plotters’?”
Answer: “Jesus knew what the ‘plotters’ would do to Him. Mt. 20:17-28: ‘As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, He took the Twelve disciples aside by themselves, and said to them on the way, ‘Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the scribes, (the first Willful Protestant ‘plotters’ of The Christian Era) and they will condemn Him to death, and hand Him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and scourged and crucified, and He will be raised on the third day.’”
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Question 5: “Does Jesus tell us how to keep our lives and souls safe from those who ‘plot’ against His obedient followers?”
Answer: “John 8:2 tells us how to be safe from ‘plotters’. ‘I am the light of the world, says the Lord; whoever follows Me will have the light of life.’”
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Question 6: “Do Catholics who meaningfully ‘follow’ Jesus have ‘the light of life’, no matter what the ‘plotters’ do?”
Answer: “We obey The Call to Catholic Communion that Jesus repeated 12 times in the second half of John 6 and twice more at The Last Supper! ‘If you not eat My Body and drink My Blood you do not have life in you.’”
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Question 7: “Why is Catholic Communion so important?”
Answer: “Catholic Communion is The Body and Blood of Jesus. It provided by His Catholic priests by The Miracle of Transubstantiation. He told ‘the sons of Zebedee’ (Mt 20:17-28) that they would ‘drink the Chalice’ that would hold The Blood of Jesus at every Catholic Mass for all the time to come.”
For the following 2,000 years, every person who meaningfully wanted to go to The Judgment of Jesus among ‘You are My friends if you obey My commands.’ would join them in ‘drinking the Chalice.’”
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May all be blessed to see that Jesus actually has The Power to Speak His One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church Into Being and give His Catholic priests His Authority to turn bread and wine into His Body and Blood.
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