'Body of Christ' stolen from church!

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**‘Body of Christ’ stolen from church
By Caitlin Nagle / For the Item
Thursday, August 25, 2005

LYNN - When Rev. James Gaudgreau learned that there was a theft at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church on Tuesday night, he was quite alarmed. But when he found out what was taken, he was downright flabbergasted.

“It is gravely sacrilegious,” said Gaudreau, after learning that the thieves made off with communion hosts. " Webelieve (the hosts) are the body and blood of Christ," Gaudreau said.

The hosts were locked inside the tabernacle located on the first floor of the church. Gaudreau believes the thief or thieves entered through a boiler room door, which might have been left unlocked by a repairman who serviced the boiler last week.

Gaudreau, piecing together a trail of broken wood, said that the thief then punched a hole through a wooden cross located on a door to a small room behind the alter. Although valuable gold chalices are kept in a cabinet in the room, only the keys to the tabernacle were removed.

Gaudreau found the keys lying on the altar at the base of the tabernacle Wednesday. The hosts were the only items missing from the church.

A visibly disturbed Gaudreau said he would not speculate as to why only the hosts were stolen, but added, “I have ideas.”

Gaudreau said recently the church has taken measures to secure potential break-in entrances, including bars over windows, because the church has been broken into several times in the last few months. The parish installed expensive bars over a number of windows; however, because the door might have been left unlocked, the additions were unable to ward off thieves during this latest incident.

A police report was filed and the department said they would be forwarding the information to a department detective. They also said that the incident is being handled as a larceny.

thedailyitemoflynn.com/news/view.bg?articleid=9935

(My feelings::banghead: :crying: :mad: :tsktsk: )
 
How about kidnapping?
I mean, they apparently knew exactly what they wanted… Going directly for the tabernacle keys then the tabernacle… This is just horrendous…
I’d guess either it was done as an attempt to shock us… To descrate our Lord (I’d hope not, but from the looks of it) or I believe they have “black” masses…

This is what our world is coming to… Disgusting, terrible acts…
One reason you’d be lucky to find a Church open after dark if nothing is going on…
 
From the sounds of it, I would think the black mass. Of course, I always jump to the worst conclusion. Though, there is no good conclusion.

About nine years ago, my church was broken into. The person or persons pried open the tabernacle, took out the ciborium, chewed up the Blessed Sacrament, spat it back out onto the altar and stole the ciboriums.

I am so disgusted by our world sometimes. My aunt always tells me that I was born a century too late. I usually agree. It’s just plain sad.

Your brother in Christ,
Matt
 
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Catholic29:
The hosts were locked inside the tabernacle located on the first floor of the church. Gaudreau believes the thief or thieves entered through a boiler room door, which might have been left unlocked by a repairman who serviced the boiler last week.

Gaudreau, piecing together a trail of broken wood, said that the thief then punched a hole through a wooden cross located on a door to a small room behind the alter. Although valuable gold chalices are kept in a cabinet in the room, only the keys to the tabernacle were removed.

Gaudreau found the keys lying on the altar at the base of the tabernacle Wednesday. The hosts were the only items missing from the church.
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About as smart as locking your car with the keys in the ignation every night and then wondering how the thief was able to drive off with your car!! It was locked !!!

I have seen keys just hanging in the lock of the Tabernacle! That is just where they were always kept. I suppose so they would not get misplaced.
 
😦 I believe this has to be for a black mass… it is obvious their motive was not money or personal financial gain… they purposely left valuables alone and went straight for what would be “bread” to nonbelievers… but they knew what they were after, the Body and Blood of our Lord 😦
 
We should all make an act of reparation and adoration to Our Lord in the Most Blessed Sacrament of the Altar for this evil action.

Glory and honor to Thee, O Lord, in the Most Precious Sacrament of the Altar. Praise be to Jesus Christ. Forgive those who have laid hands on You, Sweet Lord, with evil intent.
 
:crying: This is horrible and yes we should pray!:crying:
 
I believe this has to be for a black mass…
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That’s because you aren’t thinking it through, or don’t understand what the black mass is.

Remember these were* consecrated* hosts which were apparently stolen.

During a black mass, the satanic cults bring in validly ordained, but renegade, priests to confect their own sacrament.

They wouldn’t need to steal the hosts.
 
I’m a little surprised that the forum moderators haven’t cracked down on the first post in this thread. Copying the text of a published article is a copyright infringement, unless permission is granted, in which case it must state so.

Those who desecrate our Lord will not go unpunished. :tsktsk:
 
Michael Welter:
I’m a little surprised that the forum moderators haven’t cracked down on the first post in this thread. Copying the text of a published article is a copyright infringement, unless permission is granted, in which case it must state so.

Those who desecrate our Lord will not go unpunished. :tsktsk:
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That I didn’t know,:o

However countless others have been posting published articles like this in these forums, I think forum moderators along with the press and authorites have long since given up cracking down.
 
Isn’t the entire News forum a big pot of copyright infringment then
About as smart as locking your car with the keys in the ignation every night and then wondering how the thief was able to drive off with your car!! It was locked !!!
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From the sounds of the article, the intruders broke into the sacristy (room behind altar, where items are left when not in use… I believe that is the word at least) and stole the keys from there, then used them to unlock the tabernacle… Not that the keys were left in the lock
My schools keeps the tabernacle key in a side locked room… If someone broke the door they would have access to it
 
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CatholicCid:
Isn’t the entire News forum a big pot of copyright infringment then

From the sounds of the article, the intruders broke into the sacristy (room behind altar, where items are left when not in use… I believe that is the word at least) and stole the keys from there, then used them to unlock the tabernacle… Not that the keys were left in the lock
My schools keeps the tabernacle key in a side locked room… If someone broke the door they would have access to it
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That is my point. Even if a room is broken into they should not have access to the Tabernacle key. It should not be where just anyone can find it or get to it. Locked in a combination safe bolted to the floor would be a good place. Motion sensors in the area of the Tabernacle can be installed for less than a hundred bucks. The Blessed Sacrament is the most valuable item in the world. The Real True presence of Christ. You would think that He would be protected in the Taberncale better than the gold at Fort Knox!
 
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Kielbasi:
That’s because you aren’t thinking it through, or don’t understand what the black mass is.

Remember these were* consecrated* hosts which were apparently stolen.

During a black mass, the satanic cults bring in validly ordained, but renegade, priests to confect their own sacrament.

They wouldn’t need to steal the hosts.
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You are right…there are High priests in the Satanic cult but I think it is rare indeed that a validly ordained priest would perform. As far as the consecrated host from this ordained priest, there would be no transubstantiation…it would not meet the required rules of the rubrics.

Most times, consecrated hosts are stolen from churches so that the High Priest may desecrate it during the black mass…

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Catholic29:
However countless others have been posting published articles like this in these forums, I think forum moderators along with the press and authorites have long since given up cracking down.
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Whether or not they’ve given up cracking down isn’t the point. Copyright infringement is illegal, and, as Christians, we are bound to obey the laws of our civil authorities. See Romans 13. Breaking the law is a sin, even if we don’t get caught.

Sorry for the off-topic post. We now return you to your regularly scheduled discussion . . . :cool:
 
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Kielbasi:
That’s because you aren’t thinking it through, or don’t understand what the black mass is.

Remember these were* consecrated* hosts which were apparently stolen.

During a black mass, the satanic cults bring in validly ordained, but renegade, priests to confect their own sacrament.

They wouldn’t need to steal the hosts.
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I’m sorry? Yes, I have thought it though and yes I understand what a Black Mass is and Yes consecrated hosts HAVE been stolen in Catholic Churches in order to be desecrated for Black Masses, it has happened even in my area…

Not always can a Satanic cult get the aid of a validly ordained Priest, in fact, rarely would that happen… I haven’t even heard of such an incident, but I do know that they have used already consecrated hosts stolen from Churches and desecrated them during a Black Mass.
 
Fear not…our Lord knows how to take care of himself. We must pray for the conversion of the thieves.
 
Michael Welter:
Whether or not they’ve given up cracking down isn’t the point. Copyright infringement is illegal, and, as Christians, we are bound to obey the laws of our civil authorities. See Romans 13. Breaking the law is a sin, even if we don’t get caught.

Sorry for the off-topic post. We now return you to your regularly scheduled discussion . . . :cool:
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I don’t understand how anyone could even think of copyright laws when confronted with this unspeakably evil act of violence against the body of Chist.
 
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StCsDavid:
Fear not…our Lord knows how to take care of himself. We must pray for the conversion of the thieves.
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Exactly what do you mean? a consecrated Host is Jesus and just because someone steals such a holy thing for the sake of desecrating it, doesn’t make Jesus leave It. In other words, the Host does not unconsecrate Itself.

This is the scandal of all of this…:crying:
 
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