Anyone reading any of my blogs up to this point should understand that my aim is not to be politically correct or popular. It is mainly written to try to save the souls of my family if I can ever get them to read it. My opinions may be wrong, but my background is as a cradle Catholic and my common sense says if the Catholic Church basically held 1 belief system for over 1500 years, it was, I believe, started by Jesus Christ who was almighty God himself, then God, who knows all things not only from all time but from all eternity, even “before” time, His creation existed, then it cannot change, it can only be clarified. If any interpretation of the Bible, or the Truth itself is okay why did Christ start the Catholic Church and what was the point of missionaries being martyred?
Martin Luther was a Catholic priest who evidently thought he had a better idea than God, having known the catholic church intimately as a Catholic priest and based on his expertise, judge God wrong in how he built his church. His biggest problem with the church as I can see was authority. He thought any Tom, Dick or Harry off the street could become a priest/bishop/pope with no intervention from God, and just as God picked Saul and as can be read 1 Samuel even David did not kill him acknowledging the fact that Saul was the anointed of God. Priest in the Old Testament were selected by God according to natural law. Exodus 28:1, 40:12–15: God instructs Moses to set apart Aaron and his sons (Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar) to serve as priests, establishing a “perpetual priesthood throughout their generations”..
With the selection of Matthias by lots in the Acts of the Apostles we see God establishing a supernatural selection process so that gentiles could be selected as priests and to completely curtail even the possibility of using the natural law to pick descendants of priest (possibly being a corruptible mechanism of succession), God-Jesus Christ, by example, made the priesthood a celibate fraternity. Priest are “celibate” to be faithful to their supernatural spouse, the Church, as “other Christs.” Christ’s “marriage” to his church is emphasized in Ephesians 5:25-27. Ephesians 5:25–27 is a primary New Testament passage, stating, “Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her… to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle” (NIV). This imagery highlights Christ’s sacrificial love, focusing on the church as his holy, prepared bride. Saint Paul says in Galatians 2:20 (ESV): “I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me…” This speaks of him as a priest so he lives, as a priest, as another Christ. This does not apply to rank and file Christians in the same way it applies to him as a priest, who was directed in his conversion to go see the apostles, as we see in the “Acts of the Apostles” in the Bible. Also, if one pays attention, the book of Hebrews in the New Testament is written for the New Testament priesthood.
The cliché “an inconvenient truth” applies in this case, there is only one true church the one that was clearly that “one true church” for more than 1500 years after Christ’s death. He comes back really, truly and substantially in Holy communion (John 6:60-69) making the bread and wine his actual self as only God can do and which we as Catholics must have the faith to believe. We must confess our sins to a priest because that is the only mechanism Christ left to receive God’s forgiveness for sin (John 20:23). It is already a common belief that a characteristic of the Almighty God is Omnipresence!
Unlike what protestant say, the mass is not a commemorative meal to remember Christ’s death, it is a sacrifice where Christ offers himself through the priest in an unbloody manner continuing his original sacrifice throughout time for the forgiveness of sins. Jesus Christ is the Third Person of the Almighty and eternal Being and if he wants his sacrifice to be efficacious until the end of time being renewed by His priest it not only can be but will be! All the other sacrifices throughout time before his coming were ‘type’ of his sacrifice. They were made of created things that occupied a finite interval of time, whereas Christ sacrifice continues throughout time and possibly throughout the rest of eternity!
Traditional Thomistic Catholic 