DID YOU KNOW the drinking of blood was forbidden by Jewish law (Lev.17:14) and Acts 15:20). The penalty was to be cut off from the congregation.
DID YOU KNOW that communion under both kinds was the prevailing usage in “Apostolic times”? (Catholic Encyclopedia, IV, 176)
DID YOU KNOW Pope Gelasius I (492-496), in a letter addressed to some bishops said:
“We have ascertained that certain persons having received a portion of the sacred body alone abstain from partaking of the chalice of the sacred blood. Let such persons either receive the sacrament in its entirety, or be repelled from the entire sacrament, because a division of one and the same mystery cannot take place without great sacrilege” (Roman Catholicism, Boettner, 188).
DID YOU KNOW that the Catholic Encyclopedia, 202, admits that Popes Gelasius and Leo both emphatically condemned persons who abstained from the chalice?
DID YOU KNOW that the Council of Constance in 1416, “entirely and formally” abolished communion under both kinds because of the “danger of spilling” and the “repugnance of some”?
DID YOU KNOW: “She (Roman Catholic Church) is the one institution that never changes.” (Faith of our Fathers, Cardinal Gibbons, 83)
(If the early church thought that eating the bread and drinking the wine were necessary for the sacrament to be complete without “great sacrilege” then it does change. In the 30 years of my experiences as a Catholic, I never once was offered the cup!)
DID YOU KNOW: “If it be not identical in belief, in government, etc. with the primitive church, then it is not the church of Christ” (Catholic Facts, 27)
DID YOU KNOW it was at the Council of Constance that John Huss was to be declared a heretic and be burned at the stake.
“Huss was pleading that they continue to practice this [the Lord’s supper] as the Lord arranged. In this instance the Catholic church, its Council an its pope claimed to be ‘orthodox’ while changing the Lord’s arrangement, and condemned Huss as a “heretic,” and burnt him at the stake, for holding to what the Lord ordained! The following reference admits this (Cath. Ency., VII, 584-589). Their excuse for this was “danger of spilling” (Question Box, 446). If this was such a horrible possibility, is it not singularly strange that he Lord did not think of it?” (Catholicism Against Itself, Lambert, 123-124)
DID YOU KNOW that it is required under the penalty of mortal sin to go to communion at least once a year at Easter
DID YOU KNOW that Rome uses outrageous fables to frighten people into accepting the doctrine of transubstantiation.
“It is related that a young girl of great virtue consented to a sin against chastity; she concealed the sin three times in confession, and went to communion; after the third communion she suddenly fell dead. Because she was considered to be a saint, her body was laid in a particular part of the Church of the Jesuits; but after the obsequies were finished, and the Church closed, the confessor was conducted by two angels to the place of interment. She came forth, fell on her knees and threw from her mouth into a chalice prepared for them, the three consecrated hosts which had been sacrilegiously received and miraculously preserved in her breast. The angels stripped her of the scapular; the miserable girl instantly presented a horrible aspect, and was carried out of sight by two devils” (The True Spouse of Christ, “St.” Ligouri, 337).
DID YOU KNOW that the story above of the “saint” who “sacrilegiously” ate the Eucharist contradicts another teaching from the Catholic book The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass by Gihr, page 161 (I wonder who they would have us believe?).
“The Lord being propitiated by the celebration of the Eucharistic Sacrifice, imparts the grace and gift of penance, remits sins and crimes, be they ever so great.”
DID YOU KNOW:
“It (fast before communion) consists in this, that the communicant has not taken, since midnight, any food or drink or medicine, even the least possible quantity.[?] It would be a mortal sin to receive Communion after having intentionally taken a few drops of water after midnight; even an error of good faith (v.g., the taking of a drink of water at two o’clock in the morning because the clock had stopped at a quarter before twelve) does not dispense from the law” (Eucharist Law and Practice, Durieux, 179).
DID YOU KNOW that what was once a mortal sin (eating anything after midnight) is no longer a sin? Now you only have to fast 60 minutes before communion. What sent a man to hell years ago is no longer in effect. Rome, who never changes, has thought to change the laws, and that is the very quality of anti-Christ. Dan.7:25 says,
“And he shall speak [great] words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and THINK TO CHANGE TIMES AND LAWS: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.” (Emphasis mine)
DID YOU KNOW:
“Out of respect for the Holy Eucharist, the communicants are cautioned against expectorating [spitting] during the entire day” (History of the Mass, O’Brien, 367)
(It is the belief of Catholicism that even the smallest particle of the communion host is the “whole and entire Christ”. Therefore if you spit, you might be spitting Jesus to the ground. This doctrine is evidently so far-fetched and outrageous that it boggles the mind to think so many millions are duped by this lie! The command by Rome to not “chew” the host is meant to help eliminate any possible danger of Christ being stuck in the teeth thereby making the possiblity of spitting Jesus less frequent!)