The Desecrated Altars: Why Satanists Target the Catholic Church and the Eucharistic Christ by Jeff Callaway

The Desecrated Altars: Why Satanists Target the Catholic Church and the Eucharistic Christ

By Jeff Callaway

Texas Outlaw Poet

There's a war being waged in America that most folks don't even know is happening. It's not being fought with guns or ballots or campaign ads. It's being fought in the shadows of church sanctuaries, in stolen moments during communion lines, in twisted rituals performed by those who know exactly what they're desecrating. And the target is always, always the same: the Catholic Church and the Eucharistic presence of Jesus Christ.

You want to know why? Because Hell doesn't waste ammunition on what's empty. The devil doesn't send his servants to mock what's merely symbolic. When Satanists break into Catholic churches, smash tabernacles, steal consecrated Hosts, and perform their blasphemous black masses, they're not doing it for shock value alone. They're doing it because they know what Catholics know, what demons have always known, and what the world is forgetting: that Jesus Christ is truly, substantially, and really present in the Eucharist. Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity.

This isn't vandalism. This is spiritual warfare. And it's time the Church—and the world—understood what's really at stake.

The Teaching That Makes Hell Tremble

Let me lay it out straight: the Catholic Church teaches that when a validly ordained priest speaks the words of consecration over bread and wine during Mass, something happens that defies natural explanation. The substance of that bread and wine changes. Not the appearance, not the taste, not what your eyes can see or your tongue can feel. But the reality, the essence, the very being of it transforms into the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ.

This is the doctrine of transubstantiation, and it's been the unwavering teaching of the Church for two thousand years. The Catechism of the Catholic Church makes it crystal clear: "By the consecration the transubstantiation of the bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ is brought about. Under the consecrated species of bread and wine Christ himself, living and glorious, is present in a true, real, and substantial manner: his Body and his Blood, with his Soul and his Divinity."

This isn't metaphor. This isn't poetry. This isn't spiritual presence in some vague, feel-good sense. Catholics believe—and have always believed—that the Eucharist is Jesus. The same Jesus who walked the dusty roads of Galilee, who turned water into wine, who raised Lazarus from the dead, who hung on that Roman cross and rose on the third day. That Jesus. Really, truly, substantially present under the appearance of bread and wine.

The Catechism goes further, calling the Eucharist "the source and summit of the Christian life." Every other sacrament, every prayer, every work of mercy flows from and leads back to this central mystery: that God humbles Himself to become our food, our sustenance, our very life. As Jesus Himself said in the Gospel of John, "Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you."

Now, most Protestant denominations don't believe this. They see communion as a memorial, a symbol, a spiritual remembrance of what Christ did on the cross. Some believe in a spiritual presence, but not a change in substance. The Lutheran doctrine of consubstantiation holds that Christ is present alongside the bread and wine, not that the bread and wine become Christ. The Reformed tradition sees communion as a means of grace but rejects any physical transformation.

Only the Catholic Church—along with the Orthodox churches—maintains the ancient teaching of real, substantial presence. And that's precisely why the attacks come where they do.

The Pattern of Desecration

The evidence is everywhere if you're willing to look. In October 2014, a Satanic group in Oklahoma City announced plans to hold a black mass at the city's civic center. At the heart of their ritual? A consecrated Host, allegedly stolen from a Catholic church. The Archdiocese of Oklahoma City filed a lawsuit demanding its return, arguing that the Host was stolen property and sacred to Catholic believers.

The lawsuit worked. Under legal and public pressure, the Satanic group returned the Host to the Archbishop, and their black mass was moved to a private location. But here's what matters: they didn't want a cracker from the grocery store. They didn't want unconsecrated bread. They wanted—needed—a Host that had been consecrated by a Catholic priest at a Catholic Mass. Because they understood what too many Catholics have forgotten: that it's not just bread anymore.

In March 2024, controversy erupted at the Kansas statehouse when the Satanic Temple was permitted to hold what they called an "unbaptism" ceremony. Catholic leaders raised alarms about reports that consecrated Hosts and sacred wine had been stolen from Kansas churches for use in Satanic rituals. The pattern was repeating itself: targeted theft, specific focus on Catholic sacramental objects, and deliberate desecration of what Catholics hold most sacred.

Parish priests across America have stories they don't always publicize. Extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion have been trained to watch for people who receive the Host and then don't consume it, who palm it and walk away, who pocket it for later use in God knows what kind of ritual. Security cameras have been installed near tabernacles. Locks have been reinforced. Because the threat is real, documented, and ongoing.

In Wichita, Kansas, vandals ransacked St. Patrick's Catholic Church, destroying statues, overturning candles, and desecrating the sanctuary. In churches from coast to coast, tabernacles have been broken into, consecrated Hosts scattered or stolen, altars defiled. The pattern is unmistakable: these are not random acts of destruction. They are targeted assaults on Catholic sacred objects, and particularly on the Eucharist.

Even in medieval times, accusations of Host desecration led to some of the darkest chapters in Church history, often resulting in persecution of Jewish communities based on false claims. But beneath those tragic injustices lay a deeper truth: that the Church has always understood the gravity of Eucharistic sacrilege, that even the accusation of such desecration was treated with utmost seriousness, because Catholics believed—and believe—that Christ Himself is present in the Host.

Who Comes for the Altars

To understand what's happening, you have to understand who's doing it. Modern Satanism isn't monolithic. There are distinctions that matter.

The Satanic Temple, the group behind many of the recent public controversies, claims not to believe in a literal Satan at all. They present themselves as secular activists using Satanic imagery to challenge religious influence in public life, particularly Christian influence. They fight for abortion rights, campaign against religious displays in government buildings, and generally position themselves as provocateurs rather than actual devil worshippers.

But then there are the theistic Satanists, the ones who do believe in Satan as a real spiritual entity and who perform rituals designed to invoke demonic powers. These are the practitioners of black masses, the ones who seek out consecrated Hosts specifically because they believe those Hosts contain real spiritual power that can be inverted, mocked, and used for their own dark purposes.

Here's the thing both groups have in common: they target Catholicism. Not Baptist churches. Not Methodist meetinghouses. Not Presbyterian communion services. Catholic churches. Catholic Hosts. Catholic altars.

Why? Because a black mass doesn't work with Wonder Bread. The entire point of a black mass is to invert and profane the Catholic Mass. It's a deliberate mockery, a ritual designed to take what is holy and make it unholy, to take what is sacred and defile it. The structure of a black mass mirrors the Catholic liturgy in reverse: prayers spoken backward, crosses inverted, sacred words blasphemed.

At the center of most historical black masses is the desecration of a consecrated Host. Because if you're going to mock the Catholic Mass, you have to target what makes the Catholic Mass unique: the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist.

Protestant communion elements aren't targeted because Protestant theology doesn't claim what Catholic theology claims. If it's already just a symbol, there's nothing to desecrate. But if it's really Jesus—if that small white Host is truly the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, Emmanuel, God-with-us—then defiling it is the ultimate act of rebellion against Heaven.

The Satanists understand what many Catholics have forgotten: that Catholic doctrine makes an absolute claim, a scandal to the modern mind, an offense to rationalism and materialism. The Catholic Church says that weak, sinful men have been given the power to call God down from Heaven into their hands. That through the sacrament of Holy Orders, priests participate in the one eternal priesthood of Christ and can speak words that change reality itself.

Hell hates that claim. And Hell attacks what it hates.

The Ritual of Inversion

A black mass is not just evil. It's evil with intention, evil with structure, evil that understands liturgy and seeks to corrupt it. The historical accounts of black masses describe ceremonies that deliberately pervert Catholic worship: the use of a naked woman as an altar, the consecration of hosts to Satan instead of God, the drinking of blood, the desecration of sacred objects.

Some modern practitioners claim their black masses are theatrical, artistic expressions rather than genuine occult rituals. But the theft of consecrated Hosts tells a different story. You don't go through the trouble of stealing from a Catholic church, of infiltrating communion lines, of breaking into tabernacles, if you think you're just dealing with bread.

The very structure of a black mass reveals what's being attacked. It's not a generic assault on Christianity or religion. It's a specific, targeted profanation of Catholic sacramental theology. The inversion of the Mass. The mockery of priestly consecration. The desecration of what Catholics believe to be Christ Himself.

This is spiritual warfare at its most naked and obvious. When demons in Scripture encountered Jesus, they didn't pretend He wasn't there. They screamed, they begged, they recognized Him as the Son of God. When Satanists target the Eucharist, they're doing the same thing: bearing unwitting testimony to the truth of Catholic teaching even as they seek to destroy what they hate.

Ten Modern Acts of Sacrilege

Let me lay out for you ten documented incidents that reveal the scope and nature of this assault on Catholic sacred spaces. This isn't sensationalism. This is record, witness, and warning.

First: The 2014 Oklahoma City black mass incident, where Satanists obtained a consecrated Host and planned to use it in a public ritual at a civic center. The Archdiocese filed suit, and under legal pressure, the Host was returned. The message was clear: what they wanted wasn't just any bread. It had to be consecrated, because they knew it was different.

Second: The 2024 Kansas statehouse controversy, where reports emerged of stolen consecrated Hosts and sacred wine allegedly taken from Kansas Catholic churches for use in Satanic rituals. The deliberate targeting of Catholic sacramental elements, not Protestant communion bread, revealed the specific focus of these attacks.

Third: The ransacking of St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Wichita, where vandals destroyed statues, overturned sanctuary furnishings, and desecrated the sacred space. The violence wasn't random property damage. It was directed at specifically Catholic symbols and objects of devotion.

Fourth: Historical medieval Host desecrations, often resulting in false accusations against Jewish communities and tragic persecutions. While those accusations were unjust, they reveal how seriously the Church treated Eucharistic sacrilege, understanding that any attack on the Host was an attack on Christ Himself.

Fifth: The 2008 incident involving a Minnesota university professor who obtained a consecrated Host and publicly desecrated it, posting photos online in what he called a protest against Catholic teaching. The incident sparked national controversy and revealed how even secular individuals sometimes specifically target Catholic sacred objects for ideological reasons.

Sixth: Repeated incidents across American parishes of individuals receiving Holy Communion and not consuming the Host, but instead removing it from church premises. Pastors have had to institute policies requiring communicants to consume the Host immediately, and extraordinary ministers have been trained to watch for attempted theft during communion distribution.

Seventh: Cases where public venues have permitted black mass ceremonies or Satanic rituals, often with public controversy over whether stolen consecrated Hosts were being used. These incidents reveal how easily modern secular culture can dismiss or minimize the gravity of Eucharistic desecration.

Eighth: Social media posts and videos showing individuals mocking or claiming to desecrate consecrated Hosts, using Catholic sacred objects as props for anti-religious content. The internet age has created new platforms for public sacrilege that would have been unthinkable in earlier generations.

Ninth: Claims by some individuals that they've purchased Hosts online or obtained them through false pretenses for use in mock rituals or personal collections. While the Church carefully guards the distribution of consecrated Hosts, determined individuals can sometimes infiltrate communion lines or deceive well-meaning Catholics.

Tenth: Documented sacrileges against crucifixes, statues of Mary and the saints, and Catholic altars in churches across America. These attacks often accompany or precede attempts to steal or desecrate the Eucharist, revealing a pattern of focused hostility toward Catholic sacred objects rather than generic religious vandalism.

Each of these incidents tells the same story: the attacks are specific, targeted, and focused on Catholic sacramental theology. The common thread is always the Real Presence, the claim that Christ is truly present in the Eucharist, and the Catholic Church's unwavering insistence on that truth.

The Silence and the Witness

Here's what burns me up: the way mainstream media treats these attacks. When a synagogue is vandalized, it's rightly called anti-Semitic hatred and gets national coverage. When a mosque is targeted, it's Islamophobic bigotry and prompts federal investigations. But when Catholic churches are ransacked, when tabernacles are broken into, when consecrated Hosts are stolen for Satanic rituals, the coverage is minimal, the outrage muted, the language carefully neutral.

Media outlets will call it vandalism, property damage, maybe trespassing. They rarely name it what it is: anti-Catholic hatred, religious persecution, sacrilege. There's a reluctance in secular culture to take seriously the Catholic understanding of these acts, to acknowledge that from the Catholic perspective, stealing a consecrated Host is kidnapping Jesus Christ Himself.

This dismissal reveals something important: modern secularism struggles to comprehend sacramental reality. In a worldview where material reality is all there is, where the supernatural is dismissed as superstition, a consecrated Host is just a piece of bread. The idea that it could be something more, that it could contain a spiritual reality that transcends its physical appearance, doesn't compute.

But the Satanists know better. They may be servants of the father of lies, but on this one point they bear true witness: they know there's something real in that Host. They know the Catholic Church is making a claim that, if true, changes everything. And they hate it with the hatred of Hell itself.

The Church Responds

The Catholic Church hasn't been passive in the face of these attacks. Dioceses across America have taken legal action to recover stolen Hosts and protect sacred property. The Oklahoma City lawsuit was precedent-setting, establishing that consecrated Hosts can be protected under property law even while their spiritual significance transcends legal categories.

Bishops have called for increased security measures in parishes: locked tabernacles with reinforced construction, security cameras in sanctuaries, policies requiring immediate consumption of the Eucharist during communion. Some parishes have discontinued offering communion on the tongue or in the hand based on local security concerns.

But the Church's primary response has been spiritual, not legal or practical. Bishops have called for prayer, fasting, and acts of Eucharistic reparation. Parishes have instituted perpetual adoration, where the Blessed Sacrament is exposed for worship and prayer around the clock. The faithful have been encouraged to deepen their own belief in the Real Presence and to guard Christ in the Eucharist with vigilance and love.

There's been a renewed emphasis on teaching Catholic doctrine about the Eucharist, particularly to young people who may not fully understand what they're receiving when they approach the altar for communion. Catechesis programs now include specific instruction on the Real Presence, transubstantiation, and the proper reverence due to the Blessed Sacrament.

Some dioceses have even held public processions with the Eucharist through city streets, a visible witness to Catholic faith and a spiritual reclamation of public space for Christ. These processions, sometimes called Eucharistic processions or Corpus Christi celebrations, put on display exactly what Satanists seek to hide and desecrate: the Body of Christ, held high, worshipped publicly, honored as King.

Spiritual Warfare in Scripture and Tradition

The Catholic understanding of these attacks isn't rooted in paranoia or conspiracy theories. It's rooted in Scripture and two millennia of Christian tradition. Saint Paul wrote in his letter to the Ephesians: "For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places."

Spiritual warfare is real. The Church has always taught this. The devil is not a metaphor for human evil or a symbol of psychological shadow. Satan is a real, personal spiritual being, a fallen angel who rebelled against God and now seeks the destruction of souls and the desecration of everything holy.

The Book of Revelation depicts cosmic battle between the forces of Heaven and the powers of darkness. The woman clothed with the sun, traditionally understood as both Mary and the Church, is pursued by the dragon who seeks to devour her child. The imagery is violent, apocalyptic, spiritual warfare made visible.

Throughout Church history, saints and mystics have testified to the reality of demonic attack on the Eucharist. Stories of Hosts that bled when stabbed by unbelievers. Accounts of visible signs accompanying Eucharistic desecration. Testimonies of exorcists who report that demons particularly hate and fear the Blessed Sacrament.

The Church's tradition of Eucharistic miracles also speaks to this reality. In Lanciano, Italy, around the eighth century, a Host and wine reportedly transformed into visible flesh and blood during Mass. Scientific testing in the twentieth century identified the flesh as cardiac tissue. In Buenos Aires in 1996, a discarded Host reportedly began bleeding, and laboratory analysis identified human heart tissue. These miracles, while rare and carefully scrutinized by the Church, point to the underlying reality: the Eucharist is not ordinary bread.

The Catechism teaches that the Eucharist is "the sacrament of sacraments," the "sum and summary of our faith." Everything in Catholicism points toward this mystery. Baptism initiates us into the life of grace so we can receive the Eucharist. Confession purifies us so we can approach the altar worthily. Holy Orders empowers priests to confect the Eucharist. Matrimony and the other sacraments flow from and lead back to this central sacrament.

If Satan wants to attack the Catholic Church, he attacks its heart. And the heart is the Eucharist.

Why Not the Others?

This is the question that exposes the whole game: why don't Satanists target Baptist communion services? Why not desecrate Methodist bread and grape juice? Why not mock Lutheran consubstantiation or Presbyterian memorial meals?

Because those traditions, for all their genuine faith and devotion, don't make the same claim Catholics make. They don't assert that their clergy have the power to change the substance of bread and wine into the actual Body and Blood of Christ. They don't believe Jesus is substantially present in their communion elements. And if He's not really there, there's nothing to desecrate.

You can't profane a symbol. You can only profane reality.

The fixation on Catholic Hosts, Catholic altars, Catholic tabernacles reveals an implicit theology. The Satanists may not admit it in these terms, but their actions testify to Catholic truth: they attack what they perceive as real spiritual power. They seek to defile what they know to be holy. They target the Church that claims, without apology or qualification, that it possesses the fullness of Christian truth and the real sacramental presence of Jesus Christ.

This is actually an old argument for Catholic truth claims. If the Catholic Church were just another denomination, if the Eucharist were just a nice symbol, if the Pope were just a religious leader with no real spiritual authority, why would Hell bother? There are easier targets, softer institutions, more culturally acceptable religions to oppose.

But the Catholic Church has always been a sign of contradiction, just as Jesus was. And the Eucharist is the ultimate contradiction to the spirit of the age: God humbling Himself to become bread, infinite power under the appearance of weakness, the Creator present in creation in a way that defies all human categories.

The Fortress That Remains

Here's the truth that all this darkness inadvertently illuminates: the Catholic Church remains standing. Two thousand years of persecution, heresy, scandal, attack from without and corruption from within, and she's still here. Still teaching the same doctrines. Still offering the same sacraments. Still claiming that Jesus Christ founded one Church, gave her authority to teach in His name, and promised that the gates of Hell would not prevail against her.

The world has tried to destroy the Church through violence. Roman emperors fed Christians to lions. French revolutionaries desecrated churches and murdered priests. Communist regimes imprisoned bishops and outlawed the faith. The Church survived them all.

The world has tried to destroy the Church through seduction. Offer comfort, wealth, worldly power, cultural acceptance in exchange for softening the hard teachings, for compromising on sexual morality, for watering down the exclusive claims of Christ. And while individual churchmen have sometimes fallen to these temptations, the Church as a whole has not.

Now the attack comes through desecration and mockery. Through the theft of what Catholics hold most sacred. Through public rituals designed to profane the mystery at the heart of Catholic worship. And still, the Church stands.

Why? Because what she teaches is true. Because Jesus Christ really is present in the Eucharist. Because the promise He made to Peter—"You are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it"—is still operative, still protecting, still preserving the deposit of faith against all enemies.

The Satanists, in their rage and rebellion, bear witness to this truth. They don't waste time on what's false. They attack what's real. And their attacks, however vile and blasphemous, cannot ultimately succeed. Because the same Jesus who rose from the dead, who conquered sin and death on the cross, who ascended to the Father and sent the Holy Spirit to guide His Church, that Jesus is present in the Eucharist. And He cannot be defeated.

A Call to the Faithful

So what does all this mean for us? For Catholics living in America in 2026, watching these attacks unfold, seeing our churches targeted and our sacred things defiled?

First, it means we need to wake up. Too many Catholics have grown comfortable, complacent, treating the Eucharist as a nice ritual rather than the source and summit of our faith. We approach communion casually, without proper preparation, sometimes in a state of mortal sin. We skip Mass for trivial reasons. We let our belief in the Real Presence become fuzzy, uncertain, half-forgotten.

The attacks on the Eucharist should shock us back to reality. Should remind us what we claim to believe. Should make us ask ourselves: do I really believe that Jesus Christ is fully present in that Host? Do I believe it the way I believe in the chair I'm sitting on, the ground beneath my feet, the reality of my own existence? Or is it just a nice idea, a comforting tradition, something I mentally assent to without letting it transform my life?

Second, it means we need to defend what we believe. Not with violence—Christ's kingdom is not of this world, and His weapons are not carnal. But with prayer, with witness, with clarity of teaching and courage of conviction. When the media downplays attacks on Catholic churches, we speak up. When secular culture dismisses our beliefs as superstition, we articulate our faith with intelligence and love. When our own Catholics waver in their belief, we strengthen them with truth from Scripture and Tradition.

Third, it means we need to deepen our Eucharistic devotion. Spend time in adoration before the Blessed Sacrament. Go to Mass not just on Sundays but during the week when possible. Receive communion worthily, in a state of grace, with hearts prepared through confession and prayer. Study what the Church teaches about the Eucharist. Read the words of Jesus in the sixth chapter of John's Gospel. Meditate on the mystery of God's love that would give Himself to us as food.

Fourth, it means we need to practice Eucharistic reparation. When the Host is desecrated, when tabernacles are broken into, when sacred things are defiled, we respond with prayer and sacrifice. We offer ourselves in union with Christ's sacrifice on the altar. We fast. We make acts of spiritual communion. We console the heart of Jesus, wounded by sin and sacrilege but still present, still offering Himself, still loving us without limit or condition.

Finally, it means we need to recognize that we're in a battle. Not a battle against flesh and blood, but against spiritual forces of evil. And in that battle, the Eucharist is both the contested ground and the weapon of victory. Christ present in the Blessed Sacrament is our strength, our sustenance, our King leading us into battle against the powers of darkness.

The Church gives us spiritual armor: the sacraments, especially confession and communion. Scripture, particularly the Gospels and the Psalms. The rosary and other prayers of the faithful. The intercession of Mary and the saints. Fasting and almsgiving. These are not optional accessories to the Christian life. They're essential equipment for spiritual warfare.

And we need to use them. Because the attacks on the Eucharist aren't going to stop. If anything, they're likely to intensify as we move deeper into what many see as an increasingly post-Christian age. The fury of Hell will continue to focus on what it hates most: the Catholic Church and the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist.

The Presence That Conquers

Let me bring this home with the truth that matters most: Jesus Christ has already won. The victory is secure. The cross looked like defeat, but it was triumph. The tomb seemed final, but the stone rolled away on the third day. Death itself has been conquered. Sin has been defeated. The power of Satan has been broken.

And that victorious Christ, risen and glorified, chooses to remain with us in the most humble form imaginable: bread and wine transformed into His Body and Blood. He doesn't need to. He could have ascended to Heaven and left us with only memories and teachings. But He loved us too much for that. He wanted to stay, to be Emmanuel—God with us—not just in some abstract spiritual sense but in concrete, tangible, sacramental reality.

That's what the Eucharist is: the ongoing presence of the Incarnation. The same Jesus who walked in Galilee, present under the appearance of bread. The same Jesus who healed the sick and raised the dead, available to us in every Catholic church, in every tabernacle, in every Mass celebrated from sunrise to sunset around the globe.

The Satanists hate this because it's too good, too beautiful, too powerful. It threatens everything they've built their rebellion on. Because if God can become bread, if the infinite can be held in human hands, if the Creator can be consumed by the creature, then all their pride and all their power mean nothing. They're fighting against a love so vast and so humble that it makes a mockery of their rebellion.

Every time a priest consecrates the Host, Heaven touches Earth. Every time a Catholic receives communion worthily, Christ enters into that person in a union more intimate than any merely human relationship. Every time the faithful adore the Blessed Sacrament, angels and saints join them in worship of the King of Kings who humbled Himself to become our food.

This is the mystery Hell cannot bear. This is the truth the Satanists seek to destroy but only end up confirming. This is the reality at the heart of the Catholic faith: Jesus Christ, yesterday, today, and forever, truly present in the Eucharist.

The Last Word

The desecrated altars testify to a truth the Church has proclaimed for two millennia: the Eucharist is not a symbol. It's not a metaphor. It's not a nice religious ritual or a community meal or a memorial service. It's the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus Christ, the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, God made flesh, the Savior of the world.

And because it's real, it's powerful. Because it's powerful, it's hated. Because it's hated, it's attacked. And because it's attacked by the very forces of Hell, we know beyond doubt that it's true.

The devil is many things, but he's not stupid. He doesn't waste time fighting phantoms. He attacks what threatens him, what has the power to destroy his kingdom and free souls from his grasp. And nothing threatens him more than the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist, offered in every Catholic Mass, available in every Catholic church, the source and summit of the Christian life.

So when you see news of another church ransacked, another Host stolen, another tabernacle broken into, remember this: it's testimony. Unwitting, unwilling testimony from the servants of darkness that what the Catholic Church teaches is real, is true, is worth fighting over.

And remember who's already won the fight.

The Lamb who was slain is worthy to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing. He is present in the Eucharist. He is worshipped by His Church. He is feared by His enemies. And He will reign forever and ever, King of Kings and Lord of Lords, in the Blessed Sacrament now and in the glory of Heaven for all eternity.

That's the truth the desecrated altars can never destroy. That's the faith the faithful must never abandon. That's the presence that Hell fears and Heaven adores.

Jesus Christ, truly present in the Eucharist. Amen.

~by Jeff Callaway

Texas Outlaw Poet

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