Catholic and Orthodox Eucharist has little in common with original Christianity, and is basically a pagan perversion of original Christ's teaching. First of all Christians not supposed to have ritualistic priests to administer the Communion, anyone who believes in Christ and was water baptized can administer the Communion. After Christ's sacrifice and resurrection, we have only one high priest and intercessor between us and God now- Jesus Christ. Catholics and Orthodox heretics however have impudently and unbiblicaly installed priests and whole army of canonized saints as intercessors between the believers and God.
“Because the Eucharist is the central focus of the mass and “the end” of the sacramental system, we begin with it, and especially the priest’s role.
Hocus Pocus and the Eucharist
Turning to an official Catholic systematic theology text for its definition, “The Eucharist is that Sacrament, in which Christ, under the forms of bread and wine, is truly present, with His Body and Blood, in order to offer Himself in an unbloody manner to the Heavenly Father, and to give Himself to the faithful as nourishment for their souls.”
The Council of Trent made this more precise, “by the consecration of the bread and wine a conversion takes place of the whole substance of bread into the substance of the body of Christ our Lord, and of the whole substance of the wine into the substance of His blood. This conversion is appropriately and properly called transubstantiation by the Catholic Church.”
That this priestly act seems like sorcery is superficially illustrated by the etymology of the common phrase “hocus pocus” often employed by stage magicians. It is thought to be derivative of the Latin used in the mass, “Hoc est enim corpus meum,” which translates to “this is my body.” While this connection to stage magic seems quaint, sanctioned Catholic apologists remove all doubt as to the priest’s appalling role in the Eucharist. John O’Brien’s popular Catholic apologetics work, The Faith of Millions: The Credentials of the Catholic Religion, is considered a classic defense and accurate explanation of Roman Catholic faith and practice. What follows is a thorough explanation of the priest’s role in the Eucharist:
"The supreme power of the priestly office is the power of consecrating. “No act is greater,” says St. Thomas, “than the consecration of the body of Christ.” In this essential phase of the sacred ministry, the power of the priest is not surpassed by that of the bishop, the archbishop, the cardinal or the pope. Indeed it is equal to that of Jesus Christ. For in this role the priest speaks with the voice and the authority of God Himself. When the priest pronounces his tremendous words of consecration, he reaches up into the heavens, brings Christ down from his throne, and places Him upon our altar to be offered up again as the Victim for the sins of man. It is a power greater than that of monarchs and emperors: it is greater than that of saints and angels, greater than that of Seraphim and Cherubim. Indeed it is greater even than the power of the Virgin Mary. While the Blessed Virgin was the human agency by which Christ became incarnate a single time, the priest brings Christ down from heaven, and renders Him present on our altar as the eternal Victim for the sins of man—not once but a thousand times! The priest speaks and lo! Christ, the eternal and omnipotent God, bows his head in humble obedience to the priests command."
We find this description to be utterly flabbergasting. This is no archaic relic of the medieval period, it was published in 1974 and by reading the reviews at Amazon you will encounter the widely held sentiment that this book will lead “you to believe that the Roman Catholic faith is more logical and reasonable than that of other Christian denominations or groups.” To the contrary, it makes us want to vomit. It is so transparently demonic. It has the prideful imprint of Satan written all over it. The sheer unmitigated gall it takes to conceive of ordering the sovereign Lord down from heaven in head-bowed obedience is beyond comprehension. It reeks of evil. The quote above is outrageously blasphemous on a number of levels. Recalling the aforementioned definition of magic as the “Attempt to influence or control people or events through supernatural forces. These forces are called upon by means of ceremonies, the recitation of spells, charms, incantations, and other forms of ritual,” we ask: “In the Mass, is the priest said to influence events, people, and things with ceremonies and the recitation of incantations to control supernatural forces?” Indeed, the priest is said to be even more powerful than angels and to have the authority of God, Himself! Not only does he control people or events, he allegedly controls Christ. The priest ostensibly reaches up into the heavens, knocks Him off His throne, and offers Him up on “our altar as the eternal Victim.” Of course, we deny that any of this really occurs; it is a satanic lie. In reality, Christ triumphed by the onetime event of the cross (cf. Col 2:15).
Satan must relish this most blasphemous ritual’s characterization of the victorious Lord as an eternal victim. Even so, the most tangible act of sorcery is the mental manipulation performed on the unfortunate millions who are led by the apostate priests. Although we find it very offensive, our opinion of the Eucharist is not merely emotional, it profanes everything we hold to be sacred.The apostle Paul made an erudite assertion with, “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness” (2 Tim 3:16). Speaking of Christ, the Bible says, "For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people’s: for this he did once, when he offered up himself” (Heb 7:26–27; underline added). The comparison in Hebrews is with the Old Testament priesthood who offered up animals for sin. The Bible could not be much clearer than “needeth not daily” and “for this he did once.” Once is the operative term which the Holy Spirit inspired repeatedly throughout Hebrews. Rome’s theology is a one-hundred-and-eighty-degree inversion of what Hebrews unequivocally teaches, because the Eucharist is a sacrifice that is repeated day after day all over the world. Please consider another passage from Hebrews 9 (and just in case one might think there is a Protestant bias in the Authorized Version, this time we will quote from Rome’s sanctioned NAB translation):
"For Christ did not enter into a sanctuary made by hands, a copy of the true one, but heaven itself, that he might now appear before God on our behalf. Not that he might offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters each year into the sanctuary with blood that is not his own; if that were so, he would have had to suffer repeatedly from the foundation of the world. But now once for all he has appeared at the end of the ages to take away sin by his sacrifice. Just as it is appointed that human beings die once, and after this the judgment, so also Christ, offered once to take away the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to take away sin but to bring salvation to those who eagerly await him." (Hebrews 9:24–28, NAB)
Oh, how we do eagerly await him! The passage speaks for itself and we only cited the NAB version to show that they are without excuse. It really could not be any clearer that the Roman mass is a disgraceful sacrilege. It really seems that God anticipated the apostasy of the Eucharist because yet again in Hebrews we read,“But this one offered one sacrifice for sins, and took his seat forever at the right hand of God; now he waits until his enemies are made his footstool. For by one offering he has made perfect forever those who are being consecrated” (Heb 10:12–14). If you accept the authority of the Bible, there really is no possible way to reconcile the Roman sacrificial system. It is a deception by which they instill fear to keep the real victims, the parishioners, coming back for more. Do you disagree with the Roman mass as a sacrifice? Well if you do, Rome has a word for you, “If anyone says that in the Mass a true and real sacrifice is not offered to God, or that the act of offering is nothing else than Christ being given to us to eat: let him be anathema.” - excerpt from Petrus-Romanus: The Final Pope Is Here by Thomas Horn*
