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is the very body that was to be offered the
! 'this is Ny blood new she'd for you" that IS the
very blood that was to flow from His sacred heart.
When therefore Protestant interprets these SIM
pie words of our Savior This is My body-this is
/ Ny blood" to mean this is a figure or symbol OF
! My body and blood he must showasome valid reason
! for denying the Lords statement of the Catholic
doctrine of the Real Presence
That was no time to speak In misleading fig
ures of speech for our Lord was making His last
testament, and instituting sacrament and sacra-
fee which would last until His second coming Ouke
xii 10; I. Cor. xi, 263 Would He, the Infinite
Wisdom, and the lover of souls, words which
were calculated to deceive the greater number of
His people for all time, and lead them into the
dolatry He came expressly to abolish Shall Chris
tians hesitate between the ''black white spirit
that told the fgurative meaning TO Ulrich Zwinkli
in dream. and the constant voice of Eastern and
Western Christendom from the beginning:
The literal Interpretation of the words of Christ
Is also plainly taught secoEI. time by st. Paul:
"The Chalice of Benediction which bless Is it
not the communion of the blood of Christ! And
the bread which break, is it not the partaking
of the body of the Lord Z" q. Cor X 49,
The word "partaking,' used several times in
the following verses (1S, 90, 2D, refers to a real
sharing in the sacrifices of the pagans; why then,
in verse 1G, should it not refer to real partaking
of the body OF the Lord?
/. Cor. xi, 1929 is even more explicit: There
fore, whosoever shall eat this bread, drink the
chaice of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of
the body and the blood of the Lord. But let man
prove himself; and so let him eat of that bread
and drink of the chalice For he that eateth and
drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgment
to himself, not discerning the body of the Lord"
'Plain and simple reason" says Cardinal Wise
man, "seems to tell us that the presence of Chriss
body is necessary for ofense committed against
it. man cannot be guilty of majesty
unless the majesty exists in the object against
which his crime is committed. In like manner, an
offender against the Blessed Eucharist cannot be
described as guilty of Christ's body and blood if
these be not in the sacrament" Qectures on the
Eucharist, PIP. 318, 319).
Again, if Christ is not really present, how can
the Apostle denounce the unprepared communicate
as guilty of grievous sin for mot discerning the
body of the Lord"
Does not God absolutely forbid us to make any
craven images or bow down to them? Ex Xxx 81
yet you Catholics bow TO statues the crucix, ETC.
God prohibits here and elsewhere in the Scrip
ture the making of idols (pesel and worshipping
them. "Thou shalt not make to thyself a craven
thing. Thou shalt not adore them or
them" Ex. Xxx, 4, 81. This is evident from
the context, for God gives the reason of the prohi
bition: Il the Lord thy God, mighty, jealous"
ETC.; that Is to say, one who wants the undivided
love of His people, and is jealous of strange gods
idols representing them. If the text meant
absolute and perpetual prohibition would have
God prohibiting here what He commands elsewhere
For God Himself expressly ordered images to be
made and used for legious purposes, VIZ the gold
en- cehrubim (Ex. XIV, 49,, the brazen serpent
(Num. xxi s: J ohm ill., 14), and divers figures and
carvings in the Temple of Solomon Gil Kings Vi,
2935). The Ark of Covenant; for example,
ceived the same veneration that Catholics pay to
images: "And Josue Z < fell fiat on the
ground before the ark of the Lord until the even
ing" (Josue vii, 6; III Kings vD. Logically, if the
commandent refer not to the idolatrous worship of
L IL IN Ii
thing" whatsoever, Protestants ought to destroy
all the statues of our great men and burn all the
portraits of their relatives and friends. The
Israelite prostrating himself before the king, the
Englishman saluting the throne, the American sol
der saluting the ag-al should fall under the ban
of this peculiar command of God.
We can readily understand that the Jewish dis
eipline this matter most strict because of
their proneness to initiate the idolatry of the pa
gans amongst whom they lived. The same diff
Guilty met the early Christians, whose great strug-
gle was directed against the dictatorship of the pa
gans And yet the catacombs reveal to clearly
by the many paintings, gilded glasses, ETC., that
have come down to us-representing various
scenes in the life of Christ, His Mother, the Apos
ties and other saints of the Old Law and the New
that the mind of the early Christians was iden-
teal with that of Catholics of today. For the wit
ness of Christian antiquity read Faith of Cath
olcs" vol. iii, PIP. 303-31s.
st. Paul is not speaking of the saeramental mar
riage between Christians at all.
He says q. Cor. vii, 15): "If any brother have
wife that believeth not, and she consent to dwell
with him, let him not put her away. And if any
woman have husband that beeveth not, and he
consent to dwell with her. let her not put away her
husband But if the unbeliever depart
let him depart: For brother sister is not
under serviude in such cases. But God hath called
in peace"
The Catholic church teaches that even by the
law of nature marriage is commonly indssoluble; !
but God can dissolve it. as He did under the Old
Law. The only instance under the New Law of
the dissolution of the bond of natural marriage is
the one here mentioned by St Paul, known as the
Pauline privilege. If in marriage between a
Christian and one not baptized the unbeliever re-
fuses live with the Christian is willing to do
SO but strives to pervert tempt the Christian to
mortal sin, the latter, after having fulfilled certain
conditions laid down by Church law, is free to mar
ry again. But il must be borne in mind that this
refers exclusively to marriage contracted between
unbaptzed persons of whom afterwards be-
comes baptized Christian.
WIEN MOTHER SITS DOWN BY THE FIRE.
Oh, the five o'clock chime brings the cozest time
That is found in the whole of the day,