Today’s Reading: The First Pope lets us see why to “Be Catholic!”

Question 1:  “How does The First Pope let us see why to ‘Be Catholic!’ in 1 Peter 2-12?”

Question 1:  “How does The First Pope let us see why to ‘Be Catholic!’ in 1 Peter 2-12?”

Answer:  “Peter tells us to see we should be like newborn babies!  ‘Like newborn infants, long for pure spiritual milk so that through it you may grow into salvation, for you have tasted that The Lord is good.’

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Question 2:  “How do Catholics ‘taste that The Lord is good’?”

Answer:  “Catholics are the only people on earth who receive The Actual Body and Blood of Jesus through The Miracle of Transubstantiation!  Jesus gives His Catholic priests The Power to change bread and wine into His Body and Blood, as Jesus did at The Last Supper!   That is ‘pure spiritual milk’ described by The First Pope!”

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Question 3:  “How can Jesus have The Power to let Catholic priests do that?”

Answer:  “Peter explains that Jesus is the ‘living stone’ on which The Catholic Church is built:   ‘Come to Him, a living stone, rejected by human beings but chosen and precious in the sight of God, and, like living stones . . .’

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Question 4:  “What are Catholics supposed to do?”

Answer:  “Every Catholic chooses to:  ‘l. . . let yourselves be built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.’

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Question 5:  “What about those who reject The Church Jesus Spoke into Being with His Holy Word:  ‘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.’

Answer:  “Willful Protestants refuse to let themselves be forever among:  ‘You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of His own so that you may announce the praises of Him Who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light.’”

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Question 6:  “Why do Willful Protestants refuse to see that Jesus died to let us be in His ‘chosen race, royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of His own’?”

Answer:  “Victims of Protestantism do not understand what they have lost!  ‘Once you were no people but now you are God’s people;  you had not received mercy but now you have received mercy.’   

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Question 7:  “What is the ‘mercy’ that only ‘the people of his own’ may have?”

Answer:  “Nearly 50,000 denominations of Willful Protestants remain among ‘no people’ because they reject God’s ‘mercy’ provided by receiving Absolution from Catholic priests.  They are the only people in God’s ‘chosen race’ given This Power from Jesus in John 20:23:   ‘Those whose sins you forgive on earth are forgiven in Heaven’.”

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Question 8:  “Can anyone be Catholic and in God’s ‘chosen race’?”

Answer:  “The First Pope says ‘Yes!’  ‘Beloved, I urge you as aliens and sojourners
to keep away from worldly desires that wage war against the soul.’

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May every Willful Protestant see that each of them is the blind man in Today’s Gospel, Mark 10:46-52.  May they all be blessed to see the need to cry out ‘Jesus, son of David, have pity on me.’

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