Surprise! Every Catholic in the world has been grateful for 2,000 years to those who drove the first Catholics out of Jerusalem!
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Question 1: “Does Today’s Catholic Reading tell us we are blessed because Jewish Sadducees and Pharisees drove so many early Catholics out of Jerusalem?”
Answer: “Many of the first Catholics mistakenly believed that only Jewish people could be blessed with ‘the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven’ that Jesus gave 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.’
At first, they did not see God’s Blessing in Acts 11:19-26 when ‘Those who had been scattered by the persecution that arose because of Stephen went as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to no one but Jews.’”
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Question 2: “Who were among the first Gentiles to respect The Church-Creating Word of He Who Fulfilled over 300 specific Prophecies enough to ‘Be Catholic’?”
Answer: “‘There were some Cypriots and Cyrenians among them, however, who came to Antioch and began to speak to the Greeks as well, proclaiming the Lord Jesus. ‘The hand of the Lord was with them and a great number who believed turned to the Lord. The news about them reached the ears of the Church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to go to Antioch.’”
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Question 3: “What did Barnabas do?”
Answer: “‘When he arrived and saw the grace of God, he rejoiced and encouraged them all to remain faithful to the Lord in firmness of heart, for he was a good man, filled with the Holy Spirit and faith. And a large number of people was added to the Lord.’”
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Question 4: “What did Barnabas do when he needed help to keep bringing more people ‘to the Lord’?”
Answer: “He went to the one Catholic who was more blessed than anyone in History to bring people to The Catholic Church! ‘Then he went to Tarsus to look for Saul, and when he had found him he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met with the Church and taught a large number of people, and it was in Antioch that the disciples were first called ‘Christians.’ Saul’s ability to let Gentiles have ‘the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven’ let him be ‘St. Paul’! Hel, along with those he taught, St. Luke and St. Mark, wrote more than half of The New Testament!”
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Question 5: “How do we know St. Paul was ‘Catholic’?”
Answer: “Only those who are blessed to gratefully obey God’s call to ‘Be Catholic!’ are called to obey The Call to Catholic Communion that Jesus repeated 12 times in the last half of John 6 and twice more at The Last Supper! ‘If you do not eat My Body and drink My Blood you do not have life in you.’
St. Paul proved he believed in Christ’s Power to provide That Holy Food by The Miracle of Transubstantiation to priests Ordained in Living Link with His Ordination of The First Catholic Pope and Bishops by saying in 1 Corinthians 10:16-18, ‘The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a communion of the Blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a communion of the Body of Christ?’
Only Catholics are blessed to understand that bread and wine become The Body and Blood of Jesus Christ at every Catholic Mass for the past 2,000 years. Only Catholics are blessed to know: God is That Real!
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Catholics are clearly defined by This Word of He Who Fulfilled The Prophecies in John 10:27 because we most gratefully obey ‘The Shepherd’ of every Catholic on earth: ‘My sheep hear My voice, says The Lord; I know them and they follow Me.’”
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Today’s Simple Rhyme: “May all hear the call / of Peter and Paul: / Christ’s Body and Blood / leads us out of the mud!”
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