This brief article is going to look at what the Catholic Church teaches about the Sacrament of th Holy Eucharist (also called Communion meal) and compare it to what the Fathers of the Church taught and wrote on this subject, to demonstrate the consistency of our doctrine.

This brief article is going to look at what the Catholic Church teaches about the Sacrament of Baptism and compare it to what the Fathers of the Church taught and wrote on this subject, to demonstrate the consistency of our doctrine.

The Ark of the Old Covenant contained the Decalogue (which is the Law/Word), a Pot of Manna (which was the bread from Heaven that sustained the life of the Hebrews during the Exodus), and Aaron’s Rod (which budded and convicted those who were grumbling against Moses). The Ark of the New Covenant, who is the Virgin Mary, contained Jesus (the Word of God and the Bread of Life – the new Manna from Heaven), and the Holy Spirit (which is Truth that convicts us).

The Sacrament of Catholic Penance & Reconciliation (Confession, as it is called) is not so strange once you fully consider it. In the Old Covenant God reconciled man to Himself through the sacrifice of priests, and in the New Covenant God, once and for all, reconciled man to Himself through the sacrifice of His Son Jesus, the High Priest. Yet, in spite of that, man continues to sin; therefore man needs constant forgiveness. This is why Jesus gave His New Covenant priests the authority to forgive or to retain sins in His name.

Concerning the Catholic Bible, which was canonized at the Council of Rome in 382 AD, Protestants often object to our use of the Septuagint for the Old Testament (which has 7 more books than the usual Protestant bible) by saying that Jesus and none of [...]

The Ascension of our Lord into Heaven is a Holy Day of Obligation in the Catholic Church. My favorite thing about Ascension of our Jesus into Heaven is that it is the fullment of a very interesting statement He made in the Sixth Chapter of John’s Gospel.

This last of my Six Proofs of the Catholic Church is the most succinct and shortest of them all. Simply put, the Catholic Church works; it was created by God to facilitate that unique union between God and man, and that is precisely what it has done since the resurrection of Christ the Lord.

Now in the second Theological Proof that the Catholic Church is the only community of Churches that Christ Jesus established through His Apostles I revisit the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist with another excerpt from the Eighth Chapter of my Book Cooperating with God: Life with the Cross where I treat the Sixth Chapter of John’s Gospel. Where your a Catholic or a Protestant depends solely on your interpretation of this chapter.

By borrowing some paragraphs from my book Cooperating with God: The Life with the Cross (Chapter Eight), in Part 4 (below) I will demonstrate why we must still celebrate the Passover Meal that God commanded us to always do (Exodus 12) and how the Sacrament of the Eucharist, as celebrated only in the Catholic Church, is Christ Jesus’ fulfillment of the Old Covenant Passover.

I challenge anyone to prove the name of the founder of the Catholic Church other than Christ Jesus. There being none, the questions that follows is, ‘Why belong to a Church that was started by some man or woman that was not an Apostle of Christ Jesus?’

Essentially what the Protestant belief has to offer us is something quite unscriptural and cheap. Their belief that being ‘born again’ makes us one Church is not only not found anywhere in the Bible, but it literally spits in the face of what Jesus actually promised us. He promised us ONE Church – not 33,000 different and competing denominations.

Even without much of a commentary, what I have proven with these texts from the Gospels, the Apostles, and the Fathers of the Church, all talking about a ‘Church’, that there is a substantive link between them. That is, they are all talking about the SAME Church (the Catholic Church). All of these men, within a 100 year time-frame, are all connected by this same united community that they are all writing and speaking about.