Save a soul; connect two passages. Luke 11:27-28: “While Jesus was speaking, a woman from the crowd called out and said to him, ‘Blessed is the womb that carried you and the breasts at which you nursed.’ He replied, ‘Rather, blessed are those who hear the word of God and observe it.'”
Which words did God repeat most often? He repeated His command to Catholic Communion eighteen times by saying “If you do not eat My Body and drink My Blood you do not have life in you.”
Our duty is clear: First, we remind those about whom we care that Jesus said “blessed are those who hear the word of God and observe it.”
Then, we simply connect that short passage to the words He repeated most often, His clear call to Catholic Communion: “If you do not eat My Body and drink My Blood you do not have life in you.”
Connecting those two dots help us to help those we love to do what Jesus said was necessary to “have life in you”. Catholic priests are ordained in living link with the Apostles whom Jesus ordained. They are empowered to turn bread and wine into Christ’s Body and Blood and have done so at every Mass since The Last Supper.
Many are in The Marketing Plan Denominations because they don’t know enough about The Only Church Jesus Founded to meaningfully reject it. Some such souls are saved by genuine innocence.
Others claim to know enough to insist: “I have compared our teachings with The Catholic Church’s. In every area of disagreement, we are right and The Catholic Church is wrong.” They run a big risk!
Why are there so many Marketing Plan Denominations? Ambitious men invent denominations the same way people in the restaurant business invent new restaurants.
Best to obey Jesus and be blessed: “If you do not eat My Body and drink My Blood you do not have life in you.”
Postscript: After several days, not one person of the several thousand who read this has been able to contradict this clear proof of the need to be Catholic.
