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In other words, when people sacrificed to idols, they were actually sacrificing to, and worshiping, demons. The same is true with the Catholic mass. As the Catholics carry the wafer in procession, everyone bows down as it passes. They are literally bowing down in worship of the wafer. Also, a wafer is usually kept in a box called a tabernacle at the front of every Catholic church. People bow down before the box. When they do this they are worshiping the wafer. As we have seen, this wafer is not the true Jesus, therefore they are actually worshiping a demon! This is witchcraft. (See Figure 2.) In fact, the mass -is considered an actual sacrifice of Jesus each time it is celebrated.

"If anyone says that in the mass a true and real sacrifice is not offered to God; or that to be offered is nothing else than that Christ is given to us to eat, let him be anathema." (Ibid., p. 149, Canon 1) "If anyone says that the sacrifice ofthe mass is one only of praise and thanksgiving; or that it is a mere commemoratwn ofthe sacrifice consummated on the cross but not a propitiary one (to gain or regain the favor of, to appease]; or that it profits him only who receives, ought not to be offered for the living and the dead, for sins, punishments, satisfactions, and other necessities, let him be anathema." (Ibid., p. 149, Canon 3)

These canons clearly show us that the mass is actually a sacrifice. It is interesting that the mass as practiced in Roman Catholicism is almost identical to the custom of a ''bloodless sacrifice" practiced in the Roman Empire during the time of the first formation of the Catholic Church. Rev. Alexander Hislop has some interesting comments to make about this practice.

"If the sun-divinity was worshiped in Egypt as the Seed, or in Babylon as the Corn, precisely so is the wafer adored in Rome. 'Bread-corn of the elect, have mercy upon us,' is one of the appointed prayers of the Roman Litany, addressed to the wafer, in the celebration of the mass." (The Two Babylons, by Rev. Alexander Hislop, Loizeaux Brothers, 1916, p. 163.)

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