Handout for Revelation 31 (2)
Thyatira - "high tower" or "continual sacrifice"
Commended for much good
condemned for introduction of paganism
1. Justification by works.
2. Baptismal regeneration.
3. Worship of images.
4. Celibacy.
5. Confessionalism.
6. Purgatory. (i.e. Sanctification not complete at death)
7. Transubstantiation – continual sacrifice of Christ.
8. Indulgences – bought to reduce time in purgatory.
9. Penance – torment of body to reduce time in purgatory.
10. Mariolotry – Worship of Mary.
Rev 3:22 - 23 Roman Catholic Church (those not born again) go through into Great Tribulation. Could be basis of Laodicea
From Vatican 11 documents on the Mass
It is through the liturgy, especially the divine Eucharistic Sacrifice, that “the work
of our redemption is exercised.” (Constitution of the Sacred Liturgy, paragraph 2)
Through the hands of the priests and in the name of the whole church, the Lord’s sacrifice is
offered in the Eucharist in an unbloody and sacramental manner until He himself returns.
(Decree on the Ministry of Life of Priests, para 2)
Thus the Eucharist Action is the very heartbeat of the congregation of the faithful over which
the priest presides. So priests must instruct them to offer to God the Father
the divine Victim in the sacrifice of the Mass….
In the house of prayer the most Holy Eucharist is celebrated and preserved.
There the faithful gather and find help and comfort through venerating
the presence of the Son of God our Saviour, offered for us on the sacrificial altar.
(Ibid para 5)
To accomplish so great a work, Christ is always present in His Church, especially
in her liturgical celebrations. He is present in the sacrifice of the Mass,
not only in the person of His minister, “the same one now offering, through the
ministry of priests, who formerly offered himself on the cross”but especially under
the Eucharistic species. (Ibid para7)