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CUL:Transubstantiation

   On October 11, 1951 in the thirteenth session of the Council of
Trent, under Pope Julius the Third, the Church of Rome published its
decree on the Eucharist, defining the so-called "Real Presence" - or to
use another one of the terms used for this blasphemy -
TRANSUBSTANTIATION.

   Under the heading - "Canons on the most Holy Sacrament of the
Eucharist" we read:

   "If anyone denies that the body and blood together with the soul and
divinity, or our Lord Jesus Christ and therefore, the whole Christ is
truly , really and substantially contained in the sacrament of the most
holy Eucharist, but says that Christ is present in the Sacrament only
as a sign or figure or by his power: let him be anathema."

   Anathema- "a ban or curse pronounced against an offender; an
malediction or imprecation; special, the solemn ban of excommunication
pronounced in the Roman Catholic Church against great offenders." -
Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary Unabridged.

   The Martyred Reformers spoke out with their last dying breath
against this religious fraud of a wafer god. The Church of Rome,
however, meant business when it pronounced its curse on those who
refused to accept this unbiblical, unscientific black magic. (the
council under Julius the Third hurled 125 curses against those who
disagreed with the Papacy.)

   Just over four years after the Council of Trent published its
decree, Rome delivered to the secular power two of the most Godly men
in England, to be burned at the stake for heresy. Listen to the charge
against the:

   "We do object to The Nicholas Ridley, and to Thee Hugh Latimer
jointly and severally. First that thou, Nicholas Ridley in this high
university of Oxford, in the year 1554, hast affirmed, openly defended
and maintained in many other places besides, that the true and natural
body of Christ, after the consecration of the priest is not really
present in the sacrament of the altar. That in the same year aforesaid
thou hast openly affirmed and obstinately maintained that in the mass
is no propitiatory sacrifice for the quick and the dead. That in the
year, place and months aforesaid, these the aforesaid assertions
solemnly had been condemned by the scholastical censure of this school.
Etc. Etc."

   These men, Nicholas Ridley, Bishop of London and Hugh Latimer,
Bishop of Worchester remained true to the end. As the fire began to
burn, Bishop Latimer called out:

   "Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man: we shall this
day light such a candle by God's grace in England, as I trust shall
never be put out."

   In Revelation chapter 17 we have a description of the false Church
of Rome. In verse 4 though 6 we read: "And the woman was arrayed in
purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and
pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abomination and
filthiness of her fornication and upon her forehead was a name written,
MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF
THE EARTH, and I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints,
and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus."

   The definition of the term Transubstantiation in "The Modern
Catholic Dictionary" by Jesuit John A. Hardon is as follows: "The
complete change of the substance of bread and wine into the substance
of Christ's Body and Blood by a validly ordained Priest during the
consecration at Mass."

   To explain the Roman Mass "The Catholic Catechism" uses the words of
Christ as recorded in John's Gospel chapter 6 verse 53.

   "Verily, verily, I say unto you except ye eat the flesh of the Son
of Man and drink His blood, ye have no life in you."

   But the Roman Catechism fails to present this scripture in its
proper context. We read in verses 60 through 63 of the same chapter:

   "Many therefore of His disciples when they heard this said" 'This is
a hard saying; who can hear it?' When Jesus knew in Himself that His
disciples murmured at it, He said unto them, 'Doth this offend you?
What and if ye shall see the Son of Man ascent up to where He was
before? It is the Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing:
the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life.'"

   Notice that our Lord said in effect - If you think it is hard to eat
My flesh and drink My blood now when I am here with you; think of how
much more difficult it will be for you to eat My literal flesh and
drink My literal blood when I am at My Father's right hand in Heaven.
No! He says in effect, "The flesh profiteth nothing" - I am not
speaking of My literal flesh and My literal blood - "The words that I
speak unto you they are spirit and they are life" - you must understand
this in a spiritual manner.

   It is clear our Lord used a sign or figure which the Council of
Trent would have us cursed for believing when He said, "Except ye eat
My flesh and drink My blood ye have no life in you." John 6:53. Was our
Lord transubstantiating into a literal door? He said, "I am the the
door" John 10:9. Or a fine? He said, "I am the true vine" John 15:1.
Notice we also read: "The ten horns are ten kings" Daniel 7:24. "These
great beasts which are four, are four kings" Daniel 7:17. "The seven
kine are seven years" Genesis 41:26.

   Hugh Latimer, the martyr was a great preacher. He preached in a
plain forthright manner. He was never afraid of denouncing that which
he knew was wrong and always endeavored to hold up Christ and Him
crucified as the sinner's only Hope.

   One one occasion the good Bishop Latimer was preaching at Cambridge
and had said that everybody should be permitted to read the Bible in
his own tongue. The monks and Friars did not like this at all and they
schemed to appoint one of their own champions to answer Latimer. So on
a certain Sunday, Friar Buckingham preached against Bible reading to a
large congregation. He told his audience that if everybody read the
Bible there would be people going about without eyes - because it says
in the Scriptures: "If thine eye offend thee pluck it out." And if
everybody read the Bible the bakers would not put enough yeast into
their bread, because it says in the Bible: "A little leaven, leaveneth
the whole lump" and so on and so on!

   The next Sunday Latimer preached again and exposed the ridiculous
arguments of Friar Buckingham who attended and sat immediately in front
of the pulpit. "Only children and fools, " said Latimer, "fail to
distinguish between the figurative and the real meanings of language;
between the the image which is used and the things 2whaich that image
is intended to represent. For example", He continued, looking at the
Friar "If I paint a fox preaching in a Friar's hood, nobody imagines
that a fox is meant, but the craft and hypocrisy which are so often
disguised in that garb!"

   If according to Rome, Christ actually turned the wine into His Blood
and drank of it Himself and commanded His disciples to drink of it also
- He sinned! Drinking of the blood is strictly forbidden in the
Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments. "Flesh with the life of which
is the BLOOD thereof SHALL YE NOT EAT" Genesis 9:4. "Wherefore my
sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles
are turned to God: but that we write unto them that they abstain from
pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled,
and from BLOOD" Acts 15:19,20.

   Of course our Lord did not sin. He is the Holy one and the Just.
Acts 3:14. But Rome has sinned in her teaching of the great blasphemous
fraud of transubstantiation.

   The Conversion Center, INC.

   Drawer V

   Havertown, Pa. 19083