19. Mass & Lamb of God
INFERNAL INTERNET
Dear Enolahtiaf,
You have always been a heart breaker. You left the parish shocked and the priest crying. You are so good at being bad. You got the whole family to defect from Catholicism-- incredible! The mother's marriage failed and she went back to the religion of her youth. Her nineteen-year-old daughter has switched choirs and now sings in the Gospel Choir down the street from the old Papist sanctuary. Her brother quit as an altar server and is heavily into the Protestant bible study group. He is so excited, he even asked if he might talk to the kids at his old parochial school so that they too might find Khrist and leave "the lies of the Roman whore!" Muhahaha! What nerve-- Oh, how sweet to my taste! Like dominoes they fall into our clutches. Is it not perverse that the saving faith for some should come to the condemnation of others-- all because they had something better and more real in the Catholic Church? May their numbers multiply!
The miserable priest prays daily for them. He is another dangerous one. The girl wrote him a deliciously painful letter in which she derided Catholic teachings and announced that she had finally learned about the saving blood of Jeezus as the Lamb of G-d. Nevertheless, it puzzles the cleric. He writes back to her: "As I read your cited verses regarding Jeezus' saving blood, lines I knew you heard from my pulpit many times, I wondered why it had never touched you as it should, until you looked elsewhere? Yes, Jeezus is the unblemished lamb of sacrifice. The only difference between the cross and the altar are the fruits and our presence. At the liturgy we can join our offering of self with that one and only oblation of Jeezus which redeemed the world." He is too smart. Fortunately, the girl was too far gone to hear him out. She tore his letter up. She knew by heart all the responses of your liturgy, priest of Khrist, but still she abandoned the Mass through which there was an actual encounter with the saving presence and power itself. See how little good it accomplished!
Never again will she hear those frightful words of the Agnus Dei at the fracturing during Mass: "Lamb of G-d, you take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us. Lamb of G-d, you take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us. Lamb of G-d, you take away the sins of the world, grant us peace." As for those who remain, our demons in charge of liturgical translation have helped to reduce the biblical impact of the words at the elevation: "Behold the Lamb of God, behold he who takes away the sin[s] of the world. Blessed are they who are called to the supper of the Lamb." She must have failed to penetrate the full truth that behind the sacred signs instituted by Khrist, the Mass is an anticipation of the Marriage Feast of Heaven. This "Lamb of G-d" died for all the human swine. See how little they really care! It is said that he died for those who would believe in him. Really, sometimes it seems that he vainly died for those who would NOT believe in him. Muhahaha! It was a debt they could not pay [original sin ratified by their personal sins], but since he was both G-d and man, he could. Of course, the fallen away Catholic in question now felt that the Mass was an abomination; after all, it is the ultimate work, even if at its core, it is entirely Khrist's.
Infernally yours,
Slubgob
Dear Enolahtiaf,
You have always been a heart breaker. You left the parish shocked and the priest crying. You are so good at being bad. You got the whole family to defect from Catholicism-- incredible! The mother's marriage failed and she went back to the religion of her youth. Her nineteen-year-old daughter has switched choirs and now sings in the Gospel Choir down the street from the old Papist sanctuary. Her brother quit as an altar server and is heavily into the Protestant bible study group. He is so excited, he even asked if he might talk to the kids at his old parochial school so that they too might find Khrist and leave "the lies of the Roman whore!" Muhahaha! What nerve-- Oh, how sweet to my taste! Like dominoes they fall into our clutches. Is it not perverse that the saving faith for some should come to the condemnation of others-- all because they had something better and more real in the Catholic Church? May their numbers multiply!
The miserable priest prays daily for them. He is another dangerous one. The girl wrote him a deliciously painful letter in which she derided Catholic teachings and announced that she had finally learned about the saving blood of Jeezus as the Lamb of G-d. Nevertheless, it puzzles the cleric. He writes back to her: "As I read your cited verses regarding Jeezus' saving blood, lines I knew you heard from my pulpit many times, I wondered why it had never touched you as it should, until you looked elsewhere? Yes, Jeezus is the unblemished lamb of sacrifice. The only difference between the cross and the altar are the fruits and our presence. At the liturgy we can join our offering of self with that one and only oblation of Jeezus which redeemed the world." He is too smart. Fortunately, the girl was too far gone to hear him out. She tore his letter up. She knew by heart all the responses of your liturgy, priest of Khrist, but still she abandoned the Mass through which there was an actual encounter with the saving presence and power itself. See how little good it accomplished!
Never again will she hear those frightful words of the Agnus Dei at the fracturing during Mass: "Lamb of G-d, you take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us. Lamb of G-d, you take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us. Lamb of G-d, you take away the sins of the world, grant us peace." As for those who remain, our demons in charge of liturgical translation have helped to reduce the biblical impact of the words at the elevation: "Behold the Lamb of God, behold he who takes away the sin[s] of the world. Blessed are they who are called to the supper of the Lamb." She must have failed to penetrate the full truth that behind the sacred signs instituted by Khrist, the Mass is an anticipation of the Marriage Feast of Heaven. This "Lamb of G-d" died for all the human swine. See how little they really care! It is said that he died for those who would believe in him. Really, sometimes it seems that he vainly died for those who would NOT believe in him. Muhahaha! It was a debt they could not pay [original sin ratified by their personal sins], but since he was both G-d and man, he could. Of course, the fallen away Catholic in question now felt that the Mass was an abomination; after all, it is the ultimate work, even if at its core, it is entirely Khrist's.
Infernally yours,
Slubgob
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