Originally Posted by
adam7gur
In the days before the Temple , there were three major altars that the people of Israel made their sacrificies to God and they were accepted, but they were not a Temple.
I think that today we are in that same position, of attending assemblies and our ''sacrificies'' are accepted but none of them is The Church of Christ.
What do you say?
There is one sacrifice which God accepts and it is the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the Cross. This is why Catholics unite themselves with that sacrifice at every Mass where we
proclaim His Death until He comes:
1 Corinthians 11 26 For as often as you shall eat this bread, and drink the chalice, you shall show the death of the Lord, until he come.
This is the once for all sacrifice which unites all Christians to the body of Christ. And it is only partaken in the Catholic Church,
which Jesus Christ built:
Matthew 16 18 And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church,.
Proclaimed infallible:
Matt 16:18... and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
endowed with One Shepherd:
John 21
17 He said to him the third time: Simon, son of John, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved, because he had said to him the third time: Lovest thou me? And he said to him: Lord, thou knowest all things: thou knowest that I love thee. He said to him: Feed my sheep.
endowed with the authority to teach His Word to the nations:
Matthew 28 20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and behold I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world.
And we can observe and see that the Catholic Church is the only, truly, universal Church in the world today. No other Christian denomination can compare to the breadth and width of Catholic presence in the world.
Sincerely,
De Maria