Some wonder how an abuser priest could have the “power” to consecrate the Eucharist. I think it’s something else. The Eucharist isn’t an example of a priest’s power. It’s a demonstration of God’s unfathomable humility.
This blogger is disturbed by the tweet.
The use of the phrase "'power' to consecrate" in the tweet above is a "red herring," meaning that the phrase serves to distract the reader from the main concern which is sexual abuse by a predator priest and replacing it with a secondary concern which is any priest's "'power' to consecrate." Every Catholic realizes that no ordinary human, holy and unholy priests included, is able to (or has "the 'power' to", if preferred) transubstantiate ordinary bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ without the Holy Spirit being present. If the reader is distracted, then the "red herring" had served its purpose.
The tweeter then sets up a "straw man" which is yet another tactic to distract the reader. The straw man here is this sentence: "The Eucharist isn’t an example of a priest’s power." This is a statement that seeks agreement from its readers; yet, at the same time, it begs readers to disassociate the "abuser priest" from his diabolical acts of sexual abuse from the holiness of consecration.
The fact is that it is not possible to separate an ordained priest's ability to consecrate the Eucharist from the ordained priest himself because only an ordained priest is able to become the instrument through which the power of the Holy Spirit can flow in order that bread and wine can be transubstantiated into the Body and Blood of Christ. [2]
The tweeter omits this salient fact, notwithstanding the new 280 character limit on tweets, and ends his tweet with yet another distraction unrelated to sexual abuse, seeking agreement: "God’s unfathomable humility", whatever that means. Then the tweeter had this to say: "It's [referring to the Eucharist] a demonstration of God’s unfathomable humility." Again, the reader is made to forget about the predatory priest's perverted sexual acts but left to fathom the unfathomable mystery from the author's inscrutable mind: "God's unfathomable humility".
Forgetting for the time being the sexual predator priest, when is the consecration of bread and wine ever "a demonstration"? Consecration of bread and wine allowing for their transubstantiation into the Body and Blood of Christ is never a demonstration, God's "unfathomable humility" (again, whatever that means) notwithstanding. Transubstantiation of bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ is, according to this blogger, the gift of Christ of Himself at the Altar of Sacrifice out of Love, God's love. "'God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him' (1 Jn 4:16)." [3]
It is difficult for this blogger to accept that a sexual predator priest is one who abides in love and in God, and that it is possible for a sexual predator priest who has caused so much pain (in some cases repeatedly) in others to be an instrument of the Holy Spirit during consecration. If it is possible, then can any priest who has chosen to become a Satanist be an instrument of the Holy Spirit and consecrate bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ for desecration? He thinks not.
Therefore in conclusion, the tweet quoted above is either one to be quickly forgotten or one so profound and steeped in mystery that is beyond the capacity for this blogger to comprehend.
As an aside, this blogger suggests that the reader imagine some things and think if consecration can still take place. Imagining these things is going to be repulsive. If readers do not wish to be repulsed, they should stop here.
What the reader can imagine during consecration are the perverted and disgusting acts of a predator priest when he is with a child (a boy in most cases) who is a relative or a neighbor, then imagine him using the same abusive hand which he cannot wash clean spiritually to administer the Holy Eucharist, and then ask, would the Holy Spirit not know that this priest is taking advantage of It during consecration to give him an appearance of holiness in order to deceive parents and guardians so that they would place their trust in him to allow their kids to be alone with him? Or is everything forgiven and forgotten during and after consecration?
Imagine further that the child who was sexually abused had grown up and is now the adult reading this, how painful it will be to attend a predator priest's Mass and to receive from him Holy Communion? Will this adult with so much pain from childhood believe that God is with this sexually abusive priest at the Altar of Sacrifice and that the Holy Spirit will use him as an instrument knowing that he will be preying on innocent children causing them irreparable harm? If this adult is able to separate the pains of sexual abuse from the holiness of consecration by a pervert priest, then there is no need to discipline sexual predator priests. They simply continue with their priestly activities as if no harm was ever done. Whether such priests remain sexually unchaste and abusive should therefore be irrelevant since (borrowing words from the tweet) God would still use them to "demonstrate God's unfathomable humility" and allow bread and wine to be transubstantiated into the Body and Blood of Christ, a "demonstration" that is central to Catholicism but without any regard whatsoever to the victims of sexual abuse; in other words, the hell with the sexual abuse victims so long as there is an ordained Catholic cleric, regardless of his sexual perversions, to consecrate the Eucharist, which is what Bergoglio and his den of obsequious Mephistophelian underlings want.
[1] Source not cited on purpose.
[2] http://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/the-mass/order-of-mass/liturgy-of-the-eucharist/the-real-presence-of-jesus-christ-in-the-sacrament-of-the-eucharist-basic-questions-and-answers.cfm
[3] http://w2.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20051225_deus-caritas-est.html
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