1 Corinthians 11:27

By LUCIA LAI
My colleagues, joachim and stanley had lodged a police report against the publisher of the magazine, al-islam. refering to the may issue of the magazine, two muslim men had gone undercover to a church with the aim of seeking out malay youth who apostate. they also held a press conference at the police station itself. they went to attend the mass in church from beginning to end and participated in everything… including holy communion (the consumption of ‘the body of christ’, which is only for catholics.
To us catholics, the body of christ is something very sacred, that only catholics (some churches even stressed ‘baptised and practising catholics’ are allowed to consume because only we catholics believe in this what was called ‘transubstantiation’ where a piece of white host was transformed into the body of christ. as the police report stated – ‘this white host, according to the catholics, is something very sacred and should not be played around with because catholics believe the host to be jesus christ, whom only catholics can consumed’. those two undercover muslim men not only consume the body of christ but they spit it out later to photograph it (this means earlier they didn’t consume it but hid it in their mouth). please read the report here.
I also attached here the said article in al-islam regarding these two men going undercover. (here and here – please enlarge it to read. if you find it too small to read, contact me, i’ll email them to you). it was indeed terrible what they did. it won’t be so bad if they just attended mass and sat there and watch… but they went to consume the body of christ, spit it out and take photo of it! this is really ‘hina’ to our religion. to us the ‘roti putih’ is jesus himself where nobody should not main-main with it, least of all, non catholics.
There is another article in the same issue of al-islam which talked further about ‘remaja melayu murtad’ (malay youth apostate). they seemed to blame the church for trying to convert the youth. i find that strange. first of all, the church would never do that (and to think they even said a church pay the youth to convert!) and secondly, more importantly, if the youth feel like converting, it’s their own business and if they want to blame someone, why blame the church? why don’t they blame the youth? better still, blame themselves!! why the youth wants to murtad? probably they did not guide the youth well enough in their faith!!
It’s same like the allah issue (btw, it was mentioned in the article too), where those religious officers keep saying if the church use ‘allah’, it will confuse the malay youth. come on, don’t insult the malay youth i’m sure they won’t be so easily confused. if they are, who is to blame? same like, if they feel many malay youth murtad – converting to christianity (or other religion) who is to blame?
Note: i have two other articles from al-islam too which touch on those muslim men spying on other churches. if you wish to have it, do email me.
UPDATED: on second thought, here are the articles. article 1, article 2, article 3.
click on ‘read the rest of the entry’ to read the press release.
Click here http://lucialai.org/2009/07/09/muslim-men-spying-on-churches/ for Joachim Francis Xavier & K. Sudhagaran Stanley's Press Release on this act of SACRILEGE by 'Journalists' from Majalah Al Islam which is an Islamic based magazine that is published by Utusan Karya Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of Utusan Melayu (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd. .
3 comments:
Now we wait and see what the Opus Dei of the Vatican will inflict on Malaysia.
I am a christian and am definitely against anyone defiling the Body of Christ. But I do wish catholics would stop this 'catholic' this and 'catholio' that and think of themselves of christians rather than catholics. It sounds so foreign: like its a different religion by itself.
'But I do wish catholics would stop this 'catholic' this and 'catholio' that and think of themselves of christians rather than catholics"
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe there are deferring believes to what the Eucharist/Holy Communion means to different Christian denominations. Some believe goes only as far a remembering the last supper and is symbolic. Catholics believe more than just that, is is the transfigured body and blood of Jesus Christ.
Hence I believe the authors need to make that differentiation to inform those who are not aware of the difference.
Having said that, I believe your outrage is no lesser than any of your Christian bretheren at this travesty.
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