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Text Box: THOSE WHO DO NOT BELIEVE IN PRIESTLY POWERS AND AUTHORITY ARE CALLING JESUS CHRIST, GOD, A LIAR “Blessed are they that have not seen and have believed.” (John 20:29) Most people who think of themselves as Christians think they are blessed because they think they believe. Most of those who think or believe in this manner actually do not believe, and are not blessed. Their own mouths and their own actions declare their lack of belief. In their thoughts, actions, and words, they declare Jesus Christ to be a liar. Confession and Absolution When you hear someone say: “I do not go to confession. I do not believe any man has the ability to forgive my sins. I do not believe it is necessary to confess my sins to some man even if he is a Priest. I do not believe a Priest can do anything which I can not do myself. I confess my sins directly to God,” you are hearing that person saying Jesus Christ, God, is a liar. That person is saying Jesus is a liar, because a few days before Jesus said, “Blessed are they that have not seen and have believed,” He breathed on the Apostles; and he said to them: “Receive ye the Holy Ghost. Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them: and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained.” (John 20:22) This is the power and authority to forgive sins, or to deny forgiveness of sins. And a few days before that He had told Peter (and there are many indications He granted it to all the Apostles at that time) that what ever he bound on earth would be bound in Heaven, and whatever he loosed on earth would be loosed in Heaven. This is the power and authority to act Divinely, and included in that power and authority is the power and authority to grant that power and authority to others. It is often referred to as”The Power of the Keys”. This Peter (and the other Apostles) further entrusted to the other Apostles, and that

Text Box: power and authority has been passed down, granted, and entrusted through the un-broken line of Apostles, to the Bishops of the Church in this very day. Obviously Christ has said He has given, and has therefore actually given, Priests the power, authority, and ability to forgive sins, or to deny forgiveness of sins. Therefore, those people who say they do not believe Priests can forgive sins are calling Christ a liar, are declaring their lack of belief in what Christ established, do not believe, and are not blessed. Holy Communion - The Real Presence of Christ There are those who do not believe the bread and wine are changed in substance into the body and blood of Jesus Christ, God, during Divine Liturgy. They clearly state their belief the bread and wine remain bread and wine and only represent the body and blood of Christ, that the bread and wine only represent God. Jesus told us that unless we eat His flesh and drink His blood we will not have life in us. At the Last Supper when He consecrated the bread and wine and changed them into His body and His blood, the bread and wine remained looking and tasting like bread and wine. Then He instructed the Apostles that whenever they did what He had just done they would do it as a remembrance of Him, in memory of Him, that whey they did would be exactly what He had just done. The word “remembrance” did and does not

Text Box: mean something like a fond memory. It did and does mean that a complete and total repeat of the original incident and act will occur; which means when the Priest does what Christ did - as the Priest does in the Divine Liturgy - the bread and wine are changed into the Body and Blood of Christ, into Jesus Christ God, complete in total human nature and Divine Nature. And in having granted the “Power of the Keys” Christ instituted the perpetuation of the Sacrament of the Sacred Eucharist. Jesus made it a requirement for eternal spiritual life that one receive the Sacred Eucharist. Those who do not believe in the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist are therefore calling Christ a liar because without the Eucharist it is impossible to eat the flesh and drink the blood of Christ. Without the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist, Christ would have established a requirement which was impossible to fulfill. Those who do not believe in the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist are calling Christ a liar in that He told the Apostles that whenever they did what He had just done with bread and wine, that they would be doing them in memory of Him, that they would be doing what He had just done, that they would be changing bread into His flesh and wine into His blood just as He had just changed bread and wine into His flesh and blood. Those who do not believe the bread and wine are changed in substance into the body and blood of

Text Box: Those who do not believe in Purgatory should shout their belief for all to hear and should include instructions that no one pray for them after they die. They should show the courage of their convictions. And they should especially instruct each and every Priest and Bishop with whom they ever have contact, that they exclude them from their prayers for the dead. One can be sure every Priest and Bishop will be most unhappy to honor such a request, and if the non-believers are blessed by God the Priests and Bishops will ignore such a request. But if they do honor such a request, those who do not believe in Purgatory will regret that request if they are fortunate enough to actually go to Purgatory,

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