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Hey there, sprouts. Today is Friday, October 8th, 2021. Well, it's been quite a week as we prove that Catholicism is the true version of Christianity. We have looked at the fact that Christ left us a church, not just a Bible, a church. We examine the four words, one holy, Catholic and apostolic, to know that

the Catholic church is the only church that meets this ancient criteria set up by the early

Christians. And today we are going to look at what is probably

the most important point of all, that the Catholic Church, the church founded by Christ,

still has Christ truly and fully present today.

And that presence, of course, is Christ present in the Eucharist.

Now, what many Christians that have broken away from the Catholic Church have forgotten is that from the earliest times, from the earliest times, in fact, the first

written word that we have about Jesus' life comes from St. Paul. St. Paul was an early convert,

but he became a zealous convert. He preached, he converted, he baptized, he went to jail for it. He ultimately lost his life as a

Christian. But we know that he lived as a Catholic priest. In fact, in one of his letters, he records

the words of consecration. The words that our priests still say during the consecration prayers

when God working through the priest transforms ordinary bread and wine into Jesus' body and

blood. And so, St. Paul, living shortly after Christ descended into heaven, was saying mass.

And people, those early Christians, believed that Christ was truly present.

And this belief endured.

Remember, we have only been on this earth 2,000 years after Christ descended into

heaven, and 1,500 of that, there was one church, and everybody believed in the Eucharist.

Everybody went to Mass to receive Holy Communion. It was only 500 years ago when people,

just people, not God himself, took issue with the Catholic faith, broke away. And the one thing

they left behind, well, they left many things behind, but probably the saddest thing that they left

behind was the Eucharist. If you go to a Protestant church on Sunday, they sometimes have a

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