St. Paul is very clear in Today’s Reading from Galatians 1:11-20. “I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the Gospel preached by me is not of human origin. For I did not receive it from a human being, nor was I taught it, but it came through a revelation of Jesus Christ.”
Every Christian knows that Jesus Christ “revealed” His Light to Saul on the Road to Damascus. We can imagine it going into his brain like a million laser beams and rearranging the electrons within to let him put all that he knew, far more than most, to “picture” the reality of He Who Fulfilled over 300 Prophecies.
Unlike many other Protestants, Saul, who soon changed his name to the far more inclusive Latin form, Paul, was able to see the Total Reality downloaded within The Church-Creating Word of Jesus Christ 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.”
Paul became The Most Evangelical Catholic in History. He, who understood the Jewish Faith “more than many of my contemporaries, began persecuting The Church of God beyond measure and trying to destroy it.” Not any more!
“But when God, Who from my mother’s womb had set me apart, and called me through His grace, was pleased to reveal His Son to me so that I might proclaim him to the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult flesh and blood, nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were Apostles before me; rather I went into Arabia and then returned to Damascus.”
Catholics see that God blessed Paul with a vision of “The Trinity” that allowed him to understand: “God (The Father) was pleased to reveal (‘Revelation’ comes from Downloads of The Holy Spirit), His Son (Jesus Christ) to me.”
God’s Test of Faith echoes in two questions in 1 Corinthians 16 that only Catholics have correctly answered with a resounding “Yes!” for 2,000 years: “The cup of benediction that we bless, is it not a communion in the Blood of Christ? And the bread that we break, is it not a participation in the Body of the Lord?”
The Body and Blood of Jesus, provided by His Catholic priests, Ordained for 2,000 years with The Power to Provide The Miracle of Transubstantiation, lets Catholics have God living within us. May Victims of Protestantism meaningfully follow St. Paul, who broke free from the chains of Conventional Reality, and be blessed to receive That Holy Food.
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Today’s Simple Rhyme: “Victims of Protestantism / are led into schisms / that keep them from Jesus Christ.”
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