The Chicken and the Egg

            Up until the twelfth century, all those who believed in Christ (both in the East and West) had no problem or qualms in accepting the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist and Mary as our mediator. Protestants tend to reverse the argument and say that the Catholic Church invented all this in the middle ages. It is a big lie. The contrary is true. The Protestants started to deny what the Universal Church had always believed and accepted as normal. Before they (the Protestants) came around, no one had any difficulties in accepting the Eucharist and Mary. The Protestants themselves raised the doubt and started the whole controversy. So it wasn't the Church who "invented" these things, but they who brought to task something so plain fact.

Can you imagine someone saying to you: "Do you really believe that the woman in your house is your mother? What proof do you have? When you were a child, someone invented the story that she is your mother. Don't accept her as your mother." Now what would you respond to that person? My feelings, knowledge, experience and intuition guarantee me that she is so. No one invented her. I was born from her and her spirit is impressed within me. Besides, I have many, many friends and relatives who can testify that she is truly my flesh and blood mother. Now I ask you, what is your serious problem that you need to come to a point in denying my very own mother? You also say that the bread I eat is not real bread? How do you explain the fact that I don't die after I eat it, but live to the next day? What will you give me in the place of bread to keep myself alive? Am I to accept your constant, tiring, unfulfilled waiting promises that never arrive? What about all those strong people out there (from past and present) who have been nourished by bread and have done wonderful things through the strength received from it? Why do you want to deny something that is obvious and accepted as fact by all? Instead of wasting your time always denying things that are so essential and important, why don't you affirm something good and positive? Leave my bread and mother alone, who are my very life source.

Father Anthony Mellace