Dear Sir
In DUP leader Peter Robinson's recent Co-operation Ireland speech he said "It wasn't that popular with everyone in my constituency that I ... attended a funeral requiem". He then added that it was the "right thing" to do. That same week was the twenty-fifth anniversary of Ian Paisley protesting against the papal visit to the European Parliament in his capacity as the DUP leader and MEP.
Oct 31st marks the 496th anniversary of the commencement of the Protestant Reformation. Among the reasons the Reformers broke away from Roman Catholicism was that each Mass seeks to sacrifice Jesus Christ again through transubstantiation in contravention of Hebrews 10:12's "one sacrifice for sins forever". This is evidenced through the Vatican’s definition of transubstantiation as “... the change of the whole substance of bread into the substance of the Body of Christ and of the whole substance of wine into the substance of his Blood. This change is brought about in the eucharistic prayer through the efficacy of the word of Christ and by the action of the Holy Spirit.”
Rather than people doing what is “right in their own eyes” any biblical Christian must oppose attendance at Mass yet simultaneously they must show compassion to those who mourn a loss. Who could fail to be moved by the embrace of two men (Protestant and Roman Catholic) on UTV who were bereaved by murder? We can and must find other ways to sympathise with those who grieve in places outwith the Mass.
Yours Sincerely
