THE ONE WORD JESUS NEVER SAID
If Jesus only meant the Eucharist as a symbol, there is one word He could have used.
He never did.
That omission changed history.
It still divides Christianity today.
And once you notice it, it is difficult to unsee.
In John chapter 6, Jesus tells the crowd something that shocks them more than any miracle He had performed.
“I am the living bread that came down from heaven... the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.”
The crowd immediately understands His meaning.
Not symbolically.
Literally.
They begin arguing among themselves.
“How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”
This is the turning point.
If they had misunderstood Him, this was the perfect opportunity to clarify.
Imagine if Jesus had said,
“You misunderstood Me. I only meant this figuratively.”
Or,
“My flesh simply represents My teaching.”
Or,
“This is only a symbol.”
Instead, He does the exact opposite.
He repeats Himself.
Again.
And again.
With even stronger language.
“My flesh is true food.”
“My blood is true drink.”
“Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life.”
The Greek text becomes even more striking.
Earlier in the discourse, St. John uses the ordinary Greek verb for eating.
Then, as the tension rises, he changes to another verb that literally means “to chew” or “to gnaw.”
The language becomes more concrete, not less.
Jesus intensifies the claim instead of softening it.
Then something extraordinary happens.
Many of His own disciples leave.
Not His enemies.
His disciples.
They say,
“This saying is hard. Who can accept it?”
Notice what Jesus does next.
He lets them go.
Throughout the Gospels, Jesus often corrected misunderstandings.
When Nicodemus thought Jesus meant physical birth, Jesus explained.
When the disciples misunderstood the leaven of the Pharisees, Jesus explained.
When people thought He was speaking about literal sleep instead of death, Jesus explained.
But here, where His teaching causes many disciples to walk away...
He gives no correction.
No clarification.
No apology.
No pursuit.
Instead, He turns to the Twelve and asks,
“Will you also go away?”
Peter answers with one of the most beautiful professions of faith in Scripture.
“Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.”
Notice that Peter does not say,
“Now we understand.”
He says, in effect,
“We do not fully understand, but we trust You.”
That is faith.
About one year later, at the Last Supper, Jesus fulfills what He promised.
He does not say,
“This symbolizes my body.”
He does not say,
“This reminds you of my body.”
He says,
“This is my body.”
“This is my blood.”
The first Christians understood these words exactly as they were spoken.
Around A.D. 107, while being led to martyrdom in Rome, St. Ignatius of Antioch warned Christians about those who refused to believe that the Eucharist is truly the flesh of Jesus Christ.
This is remarkable.
He wrote this only a few years after the death of St. John the Apostle.
The belief in the Real Presence was not a medieval invention.
It was the faith of the Apostolic Church.
A few decades later, St. Justin Martyr explained to the Roman Emperor that Christians did not receive ordinary bread and ordinary wine, but the flesh and blood of Christ made present through the words of Jesus.
Generation after generation, the testimony remains the same.
The Eucharist is not merely sacred.
It is Christ Himself.
This also explains something many people overlook.
Every miracle Jesus performed restored earthly life.
The blind received sight.
The lame walked.
The dead were raised.
But every one of those people eventually died again.
The Eucharist is different.
It is the only gift Jesus gave that is ordered toward eternal life itself.
“Whoever eats this bread will live forever.”
No prophet could make that promise.
No angel could make that promise.
Only God.
Hantavirus - cruise ship - and false narratives galore!
My scientific and medical opinion as a scientist who did research on Hantavirus is that an inquiry into Dr Bix is warranted
Please share massively - accurate info -
1. First and foremost we studied Hantavirus in my lab for many many years and published about it.. so what follows is ACCURATE by someone who did THIS!
It is a zoonosis, monitored by many Defense depth, and I was one of those army scientific officers (I was CSO of BE DoD actually, not the copy machine guy!)
Type my name and Hantavirus... and you'll see, non classified peer-review research.
2. This woman (Dr Birx) is ‘guilty as charged’ because she was one of the architects of the SARS2 debacle where she forced with her friend (prof Neil Fergusson, Imperial College, London) the policy of ZERO-Covid aka as a suppression policy
ZERO covid for a zoonosis? It was NOT possible, not even a policy.. only a ploy to bring about a technology that was NOT ready to the market (RNA vaccines).
One can NEVER eradicate (= zero covid) a zoonosis when 600 + mammalian species (cattle, all our pets, zoo animals, deers,... even minks...) share a virus with us and may play 'ping-pong' - that is getting it from us, and giving it back to us!
3. Now she is at it again with the same old LIES and misconceptions
Hantaviruses, human-to-human contamination is very rare!
1 - For the EU strains, one gets infected crawling in the woods, and literally inhaling rodent poop/urine (a bit like snorting coke LOL)
-The operational army personnel is at risk because that is part of their training and job!
- It has essentially no lethality... but one can get sick, and can get complications IF NOT TREATED, like a bacterial colonization of our lungs
2 - For the US Strains (sin Nombre, Andes), there is a slight increase in human-human transfer.
- but it remains RARE,
- and requires continuous contact with SYMPTOMATIC people for a while like in a family, or like in a CONFINED room with the HVAC of that cruise ship for exemple (where they kept people in THEIR CABINS for a while - which was the ultimate STUPIDITY!)
- just passing by someone who coughs or giving a hug - like in the case of a flu, will NOT do it.
- mortality nearly only when NON treated.. that is an important point- very important.
Why NO PCR to find out?
The PCR testing can NEVER b used for a fishing trip. Its is because - and it is known for age- , it has a very low PRE-test predictive value.
After SYMPTOMS however, in order to ascertain and/or to differentiate between different pathogens, it is perfectly legit
So systematic PCR will just create FAKE cases, like the 80% false positives obtained for SARS2 during COVID
Contagion?
Hantaviruses have a long incubation period ( a few weeks) but CAN only be contagious with symptoms.... This appear fun general after 15-18 days on average, and are FLU-like.
So before any SYMPTOM -> NO contagion
Vaccines?
NO matter what they tell you, Hantaviruses are ZOONOSIS - so offering a mass protection (useless as I just explained) via a vaccine is
- USELESS
- INEFFECTIVE...
This is true for ANY zoonosis. Because to really mitigate such transmission, vaccinating humans ONLY would be useless!
So vaccines NON needed, and besides especially NOT those RNA-based ones
Treatments exist!
- First of all, we have -when confronted with symptoms- treat those.. like for any flu-like syndrome
- if and when bacterial surinfection arises, antibiotics are in order
- HANTA-specific molecules do also exist
- Ribavirin is an enzyme blocker of the enzyme of the hantavirus...
But there is BETTER!
ANY medication/drug which interferes with the acidification of late endosomes will PREVENT hanta to reach the biochemical interior of the cell ...
and here we find HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE (HCQ) - yep! and it has been published
See here:
Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Biology
https://t.co/tz0viXlMDN
Chloroquine, an Anti-Malaria Drug as Effective Prevention for Hantavirus Infections
The author list is Ironic - this come in tempore non suspecto from a lab of one Birx Friends - also responsible for the SARS2 debacle in EU and in Belgium :)
And i want you all to understand the next sentence.
This bug is a NON PROBLEM (see image below), it is pure media manipulation
In Belgium - for example - we have each year between 150 and 350 cases of Hantavirus patients. We do not loose them, and NO one has ever heard about it.. because it is a NON problem!
In the US, with the ANDES strain... one has more chances to die from a lightning strike than for an Hantavirus infection.. in the US roughly 30 cases a year and 10 deaths, lightning strikes 20 deaths per year and several hundred 'cases" per year too.
(And no.. GoF research of this germ is not an easy act... it is NOT a new Hanta, the serology, not the PCR, will prove it...)
So i hereby request that an inquiry into Dr Birx statements be made, her full list of conflicts be researched, and that HHS refers her to DOJ for the spread of FALSE information, with ill intent .. as outlined in this post.
Prof dr Martin ZIZI, MD-PhD
former CSO BE DoD
former UN bioweapon inspector
@RFKJr_Official@SecKennedy@NIHDirector_Jay
🚨 WELLS FARGO PATENTED "SMART DUST" FOR BIOMETRIC SURVEILLANCE & PAYMENTS (US11354666B1 - Granted June 7, 2022)
Tiny airborne MEMS devices (aka "Smart Dust") that swarm around you, read your biometrics in real-time; heart rate, body temp, voice, motion, even capture images... then authenticate your payments.
No phone. No card. Just invisible dust in the air knowing it's YOU.
They patented microscopic sensors that float, network together, collect your personal data, and feed it to a base station for "secure" transactions.
This isn't dystopian fiction. It's an official U.S. patent assigned to one of the biggest banks in America.
"What happens when this tech escapes the "payment" use case?"
- Constant invisible monitoring?
- Behavioral tracking?
- Integration with 5G/6G networks?
- "Smart cities" breathing this in?
Smart Dust was originally a military concept. Now it's being prepped for your wallet... and who knows what else.
They told you it was conspiracy. The patent office says otherwise.
📜 Patent Link: [US11354666B1 on Google Patents]
(https://t.co/vbNe18OLSD)
Screenshot this. Share it. The future is already filed.
Are you comfortable with banks owning the air around you? 👀
Let me know your thoughts below!
How do you know if it's God speaking to you, or the enemy, or just your own voice in your head?
This Sunday, Catholic churches around the world are reading John 10, one of my favorite passages in all of Scripture - about the Good Shepherd who calls his sheep by name and leads them to life abundant. But to follow that voice, you have to be able to recognize it.
In this reflection, I'm breaking down 5 practical, St. Ignatius-inspired ways to discern the voice of God from the voice of the enemy and sharing a few powerful stories, including a miraculous healing at Lourdes and a moving journal entry from my wife's conversion at World Youth Day 1993, when she heard the voice of her shepherd and could never unhear it.
"I came that they may have life and have it abundantly." - John 10:10
I'm going to be honest with you—you might be a little frustrated after watching the Chris Stefanick Show this week. But only because you didn't know it sooner.
There is one day every year when Jesus promised that any Catholic who goes to confession and receives Holy Communion will receive the complete forgiveness of all sin and all punishment.
Not just forgiveness. Complete wiping of the slate. Like a second baptism.
That day is Divine Mercy Sunday—the Sunday after Easter. And in this episode of the Chris Stefanick Show, Fr. Chris Alar explains why this is quite possibly the most extraordinary grace available to us in the entire liturgical year.
Watch the full episode: https://t.co/NvN6H53EUp
I love how Cardinal Arinze gave this protestant a perfect response as regards the sacrament Catholics receive.
I love how Cardinal Arinze defends the Catholic Church and the doctrines.
He inspires me greatly!!
A CALL TO REVERENCE AND TRUTH
In recent days, an Easter message from President Donald Trump has drawn attention – not because of its clarity in proclaiming the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, but because of language that was careless, irreverent, and theologically confused.
This must be addressed – not as a matter of politics, but as a matter of truth.
Easter Sunday is the holiest day in the Christian calendar. It is the day on which the Church proclaims with unwavering certainty that Jesus Christ, true God and true Man, rose from the dead. Death was conquered. Sin was defeated. The gates of Heaven were opened.
This is not a day for casual speech. It is not a day for vulgarity. And it is not a day for confusion about who God is.
When coarse or profane language is used in reference to so sacred a mystery, it reveals something deeper than a momentary lapse – it reflects a loss of the sense of the sacred. And when religious language is blended carelessly, as though all expressions of belief are interchangeable, it obscures the truth that has been entrusted to us.
The Catholic Church teaches that there is one God. But she also proclaims that this one God has revealed Himself fully and definitively in Jesus Christ. Easter is not a generic celebration of “God.” It is the proclamation that Jesus Christ is risen.
To substitute clarity with ambiguity – even unintentionally – is to diminish the power of that proclamation.
As Catholics, our allegiance is not to any political figure, party, or movement. Our allegiance is to Jesus Christ, who is “the way, and the truth, and the life” (John 14:6). Therefore, we must be willing to speak with honesty and charity when something falls short of that truth – no matter who speaks it.
This is not about condemnation. It is about calling all people – especially those in positions of influence – to a higher standard worthy of the name of Christ.
If we lament the loss of faith in the world, we must also recognize the loss of reverence. If we grieve confusion, we must recommit ourselves to clarity. And if we desire renewal, it must begin with a return to the sacred.
Easter demands more. It demands that we speak of God with reverence. It demands that we proclaim Christ with clarity. And it demands that we live as witnesses to the truth that the tomb is empty and that Jesus Christ is Lord.
Let us not lower that standard. Let us rise to it.
May Almighty God bless you, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
Bishop Joseph E. Strickland
Bishop Emeritus
Beautiful.
Hollywood Star Jessie Buckley praises marriage and motherhood during her Oscar-winning speech, dedicating the award to every mom
“I would like to dedicate this to the beautiful chaos of a mother’s heart.”
Marriage isn’t a trap.
Babies aren’t burdens.
Motherhood is a gift.