Introduction:

During the Passover meal Jesus said in Luke 22:15, “I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer.” Jesus was very eager to eat this Passover meal because he established the Holy Eucharist only in this Passover meal and also it was his Last Passover meal with his disciples. Through this, Holy Eucharistic Jesus is in this world in flesh and blood with the human beings in a special manner. The Lord says in Matthew 28:20, “And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” This saying is becoming true through the Holy Eucharist. The Lord is very merciful to dwell with the mortals. Jesus is dwelling with human beings through the Eucharist in every Catholic Church. We can experience the reality of the holy verse of Revelation 21:3 in connection with the Holy Eucharist also. Let us read the verse: “See the home of God is among mortals. He will dwell with them as their God.” This great privilege is available only in the Catholic Church and no one can get it in any other Church. Actually Jesus in real flesh and blood is present in the form of Eucharist in Catholic Church and we are going to him, loving him, speaking with him, and worshipping him in the Eucharist. Thus his inner thirst of being with us is fulfilled through the Eucharist. We find out his inner thirst for us in John 17:24 where Jesus says to God the Father, “I desire that those also, whom you have given me may be with me where I am to see my glory” We experience inner peace, grace, joy, power, and bliss when we encounter Jesus in the Eucharist. When we are worshipping the Eucharist we worship Jesus. But my pentecostal friend differs in his views.

Pentecostals view:

My pentecostal friend says as follows:

1) Even though Jesus told them that consecrated/blessed bread and wine are body and blood of Jesus, it is not actual body and blood of Jesus but we have to only think like that. My pentecostal friend denies the transubstantiation. We have to consume the Eucharist thinking that this is the body of Jesus and wine as the blood of Jesus.

2) Since Holy Eucharist is not Jesus, we should not worship the Holy Eucharist. Jesus asked them to take and eat the Eucharist and not to worship it. So we should not worship the Eucharist and keep it or expose it for worship.

3) He asked merely to do it in remembrance of Jesus. So we have to do it in remembrance of him only.

4) It is not sacrifice of Calvary cross when we do it in remembrance of him.

He is quoting some holy verses to prove his view. Let us read the verses:

Matthew 26:26-28 says, “While they were eating, Jesus took a loaf of bread, and after blessing it he broke it, gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body”. Then he took a cup, and after giving thanks he gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you; for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.” “

Mark 14:22-24 says, “While they were eating, he took a loaf of bread, and after blessing it he broke it, gave it, to them, and said, “Take; this is my body”. Then he took a cup and after giving thanks he gave it to them, and all of them drank from it. He said to them, “This is my blood of the covenant, which; is poured out for many.” “

Luke 22:19-20 says, “Then he took a loaf of bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” And he did the same with the cup after supper, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.” “

1 Corinthians 11:23-25 says, “Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took a loaf of bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “This is my body that is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way he took the cup also, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” “

His arguments:

Jesus expressed these above verses when he established the Eucharist. In Matthew 26:26-28 and in Mark 14:22-24 Jesus only asked the disciples to take and eat the Eucharist and to drink the consecrated wine but not to worship it. In Luke 22:19-20 and in 1 Corinthians 11:23-25 Jesus asked the disciples to do this in remembrance of him. Here also he did not ask to worship him. So the Pentecostal friend told me that when we do it in remembrance of him, we should only eat the Eucharist and should not worship it.

The Answer:

1) Flesh and blood of Jesus:

Do you think that Jesus is deceiving you to make you believe in what that do not actually exist? If you think like that you label Jesus as deceiver. Jesus is not such a person to make us believe in what is actually do not exist. If you think or preach that Jesus asks the humanity to believe the consecrated bread and wine as his body and blood but in reality they are not as such, sure, you are exposing Jesus as a liar. But in Matthew 26:26-28 we see Jesus says about the consecrated bread, “Take, eat; this is my body”. And regarding the consecrated cup of wine, “Drink from it, all of you; for this is my blood of the covenant.” In Mark 14:22-24 we see Jesus says about the consecrated bread, “Take; this is my body”. And regarding the consecrated cup of wine, “This is my blood of the covenant”. In Luke 22:19-20 also Jesus says about the consecrated bread, “This is my body, which is given for you”. And regarding the consecrated cup of wine, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.”

Jesus speaks truth:

Here we very clearly see that Jesus is saying about the consecrated bread and wine his own body and blood. There is no clue that Jesus is asking us to imagine the consecrated bread and wine as his body and blood while they are not actually the body and blood of Jesus. He will not ask us to believe in falsity. He is Truth and speaks the truth that the consecrated bread is his body and consecrated cup of wine is his blood. I wonder why my pentecostal friend adds his own fancy that it is not actual body and blood of Jesus but we have to think like that and we have to consume the Eucharist thinking that this is the body of Jesus and wine as the blood of Jesus. I also wonder why my pentecostal friend denies the transubstantiation without any scriptural basis or valid reason to support his views. He does not understand that adding his own fancy in these important Divine matters is wrong and serious sin. Since they are really his body and blood, 1 Corinthians 11:27 says, “Whoever, therefore eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be answerable for the body and blood of the Lord.”

My pentecostal friend may think of Acts 7:48 that says, “Yet the Most High does not dwell in houses made with human hands.” He can be rightly clarified about this holy verse in the chapter named, “Holy Images”.

His flesh is food:

Let us read John 6:55-56 where Jesus says, “my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink. Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me, and I in them.” All of us know that Jesus mentions about Holy Eucharist his flesh that is true food and consecrated wine his blood that is true drink. It is not a figurative speech but the Eucharist is His own real flesh and consecrated wine his own blood. In John 6:51 Jesus says, “the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.” John 6:52 says, “The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” “ Yet Jesus says in John 6:54, “Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day.” But John 6:60 says, “when many of his disciples heard it, they said, “This teaching is difficult; who can accept it?” “ Is my pentecostal friend going to join with those who complained against this truth? But against their view Jesus asks them in John 6:61-62, “Does this offend you? Then what if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?” Yes, Jesus can perform great miracles and he can convert the bread and wine his own real body and blood that is our true food.

Eucharist-real flesh and blood - proved:

In the 8th century A.D. in Italy in the little Church of St.Legontian a very great Eucharistic miracle took place to a divine response to a Basilian monk who doubted about Jesus’ presence in the Eucharist. During the Holy mass, after the two-fold consecration, the host was changed into live Flesh and the wine was changed in to live blood. In 1970, 1971 and in 1981 scientific investigation took place about the Holy Eucharist by the most illustrious scientist Prof. Odoardo Linoli, eminent Professor in Anatomy and Pathological Histology and in Chemistry and Clinical Microscopy. Prof. Ruggero Bertelli of the University of the Siena assisted him. The analyses were conducted with absolute and unquestionable scientific precision and they were documented with a series of microscopic photographs. These analyses sustained the following conclusions: The Flesh is real Flesh. The blood is real blood. The Flesh and the Blood belong to the human species. The Flesh consists of the muscular tissue of the heart.

The preservation of the Flesh and the Blood, which were left in the natural state for twelve centuries and exposed to the actions of atmospheric and biological agents, remains an extraordinary phenomenon. Even today one can see this Eucharistic Miracle at the small town of Lanciano in Italy. I directly witnessed and experienced the wonderful presence of our Lord Jesus there in June 2001.

Bread came from heaven:

Regarding this food the holy Eucharist the real flesh of Jesus, he says in John 6:58, “This is the bread that came down from heaven; not like that which your ancestors ate, and they died. But the one who eats this bread will live forever.” John 6:50 says, “This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die.” We know Jesus is the person who came down from heaven. Since the holy Eucharist is Jesus he attributed his character of ‘coming down from heaven’ to the holy Eucharist the bread and so he says, “This is the bread that comes down from heaven” that is, this is the bread Jesus (Eucharist) that comes down from heaven. So John 6:33 says, “For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

Eucharist is Jesus:

Jesus also says in John 6:51, “I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever.” So the bread that came down from heaven is living bread that is Jesus himself. And in John 6:48 Jesus says, “I am the bread of life.” So the Eucharist the bread that comes down from Heaven is Jesus himself and it is living bread. Jesus says in John 6:57, “Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever eats me will live because of me.” Since Jesus uses the word, “eat me” here, it is undoubtedly proved that Eucharist is Jesus Himself. So it is very clear that the bread Eucharist is not only his mere flesh but also Jesus himself. When we consume Eucharist we are consuming Jesus as a whole.

Insult to Jesus:

No doubt that Jesus is God Almighty. He is the word of God, “and the word was God” (John 1:1). Since Eucharist is Jesus, the Eucharist is really the God Almighty Jesus. Jesus is in physical body and flesh that have been proved in Lanciano of Italy. But my Pentecostal friend does not accept Jesus who came down from Heaven as living bread the Eucharist. He neglects the living bread Jesus who gives life. He does not accept Jesus and give worship to him when he is in the form of Eucharist. He forgot the holy verse that Jesus says in Luke 20:25 that says, “give to the emperor the things that are the emperor’s and to God the things that are God’s.” We know the things that are to be given to God are worship, love, and respect etc. But he denies giving worship to God the Holy Eucharist. It is a great insult to Jesus. Now Jesus says in John 6:36, “But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe.” It is a great disrespect the Pentecostal friend shows to Jesus when he is a person in Physical body and flesh in the Eucharist. In this situation I am earnestly drawing the kind attention of my Pentecostal friend to the holy verses of Romans 1:19-22 that condemns such people as follows: “what can be known about God is plain to them. Ever since the creation of the world his eternal power and divine nature, invisible though they are, have been understood and seen through the things he has made. So they are without excuse; for though they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their senseless minds were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools.” My pentecostal friend should think of these verses.

Punishment for disrespect:

St.Paul expects from the early Christians, when they do it in remembrance of Jesus, to eat and drink this Lord’s Supper with utmost respect and reverence. He chides the early Christians who eat and drink it in an unworthy manner in 1 Corinthians 11:20-22 that says, “When you come together, it is not really to eat the Lord’s Supper. For when the time comes to eat, each of you goes ahead with your own supper, and one goes hungry and another becomes drunk. What! Do you not have homes to eat and drink in?” 1 Corinthians 11:27 says, “Whoever, therefore eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be answerable for the body and blood of the Lord.” And so he asked in 1 Corinthians 11:28-30, “Examine yourselves, and only then eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For all who eat and drink without discerning the body, eat and drink judgment against themselves. For this reason many of you are weak and ill, and some have died.” (Here for the word, ‘discerning the body’ other ancient authorities read, discerning the Lord’s body.) Why should Paul utter these verses? We take and eat the holiest of holy Lord God Jesus himself in the form of Eucharist that the bread changes in to Jesus when they do it in remembrance of Jesus. So we have to be holy to receive God in the form of Eucharist.

The sacrament of Reconciliation: (Confession)

To receive the holy Eucharist in a holy manner, “Confession” in Catholic Church is a useful Holy Sacrament to get us purified from our sins. Jesus says to his disciples in John 20:23, “If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them: If you retain the sins of any, they are retained.” Here we see the great authority vested with the disciples of Jesus to forgive our sins. On the basis of this holy verse, the Catholic priests who sit in the seat of disciples of Jesus as “the scribes and the Phar’i.sees sit on the Moses’ seat” in Matthew 23:2, forgive our sins when we go to them and confess our sins to them in Confession. Thus our sins are forgiven and we are deemed worthy to receive the Holy Eucharist through the Confession. But we have to note if they retain the sins of any, they are retained. (John 20:23)

One of the important things in Confession is repentance. Repentance and forgiveness always go together. That is why Jesus says in Luke 24:47, “and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all nations.” A Catholic who is really repenting for his sins with a strong determination not to do the sin again, goes to the Catholic priest and confesses his sins is getting forgiveness for his sins. This is the merciful gift the Lord Jesus gives us. After the Confession he is purified from his sins and can receive Eucharistic Jesus.

No Confession for Pentecostals:

A similar incident occurred as above in the time of John the Baptist in Matthew 3:5-6 where the people of Jerusalem, Judea and all the region of Jordan came to John the Baptist and confessed their sins when they received baptism. Here in Matthew 3:8 he asked them, “bear fruit worthy of repentance.”

My pentecostal friend is miserably missing this great merciful gift of Jesus - the Confession in his Church. He foregoes the blessing of getting himself cleansed through Confession. Yes, the Holy Sacrament of Confession is not available in his Church. He may say that he could go directly to God, repent and ask forgiveness for his sins. Then why should James 5:16 says, “Therefore confess your sins to one another”? Like wise, why should people come to John the Baptist and confess their sins in Matthew 3:5-6? Now he may say that he can go to anyone and confess his sins. Yes, he can; but there is no assurance for his confidential matters. And also nothing is said in James 5:16 about forgiveness of sins when he confess his sins to one another. The only appropriate way is the way that Jesus prepared for us in John 20:23 that we have it in the Sacrament of Reconciliation in Catholic Church only. He appointed his disciples to forgive our sins. Sitting in the seat of disciples of Jesus the Catholic priests are forgiving our sins in Confession. This is confidential and we are getting assurance of forgiveness through the priests. O! My dear Pentecostal friend! Think and decide to be a member in the Catholic Church and get yourself cleansed from your sins in the way Jesus provides for you that is through the Sacrament of Reconciliation. Why are you seeking your own way that is leading away from the way Jesus provides for you?

2) Take and eat but no worship?

Now let us think over my Pentecostal friend’s argument that the Lord however asked the disciples to take and eat consecrated bread and not to worship it. What will we do when the holiest of holy Lord God comes in us in the form of food? The first and foremost thing we have to do is to worship him with utmost purity, love and respect. It is quite simple that I will respect my king who comes to my house even in disguise if I realize him. What is my pentecostal friend going to do when Jesus comes before him in the form of Eucharist? Now he knows Eucharist is Jesus. Even though Jesus comes to us in the form of food, he is at the same time the Lord God Almighty. While he serves himself as food for us, he is God who gives us life to eternity. So while we eat him as food, at the same time we have to worship him as God. Yes, Jesus is food and God for us in the form of Eucharist.

The Lord God can be our father, bride groom and friend. Yet he is God for us. Lord says in John 15:14-15, “You are my friends if you do what I command you. I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing but I have called you friends, because I have made known to everything that I have heard from my Father.” Can we say that Jesus is my friend and so I will treat him only as a friend? No! When I love him as a friend I am giving him the due respect and worship since he is God. Like that, when I eat him as food I am giving him due respect and worship since Eucharist is God.

Exposition of Eucharist:

In this situation one of my Pentecostal friends raised a feeble argument that the Eucharist is the Lord God Jesus; but when the Eucharist is kept in Exposition or in tabernacle, there is no lord in it. So we should not worship him when he is kept in Exposition or in tabernacle. Even this baseless argument is spread fast in this world by satanic influences. How can he the so-called strict follower of the holy verses say without quoting any of the holy verses? No holy verses mention that the Lord disappear when the Eucharist is kept in Exposition or in tabernacle. We read in Hebrew 9:4, “the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which there were a golden urn holding manna, and Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant.” In those days, we know that the tabernacle that contained manna, and Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant was full of divine power. The present tabernacles that contain Eucharist are also full of divine power.

During the consecration in the Holy Mass, in the moment the following holy verses are uttered by the priest/bishop/cardinal/Pope who are sitting in the seat of apostles and disciples, that is in 1 Corinthians 11:23-25 that read, “Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took a loaf of bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “This is my body that is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way he took the cup also, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me” “, the transubstantiation takes place. The consecrated bread and wine become the real flesh and blood of Jesus i.e., the consecrated Host becomes Jesus. We have to give respect and worship when our Lord is before us in the form of Eucharist whether he is in Exposition or in tabernacle or when we eat him as food.

3) Do this in remembrance but no worship?

Still my Pentecostal friend says that Jesus asked us in 1 Corinthians 11:24-25 to do it in remembrance of him and not to worship him. Let us read the holy verse: “”This is my body that is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way he took the cup also, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”” Quoting these verses he says that Jesus says here nothing about his worship but only asked them to do it in remembrance of him and so we should not worship him. Let us see his view.

It is in the Passover meal the bread and wine changed into the body and blood of Jesus i.e. Jesus himself. Thus the Lord God gave himself as food for giving life to the humanity. Jesus asked his disciple to do the Passover meal in remembrance of him as often. So when his disciple does it in remembrance of Jesus, the very same change of bread and wine into the body and blood of Jesus takes place. Thus the real Lord Jesus Christ is present before us. As we have already seen, what have we to do for Jesus now? The first thing is to worship him. Yes, the Lord God Jesus Christ is before us and so we have to worship him with utmost reverence and respect. The Catholic Christians worship him with love, respect and reverence while they eat and drink the body and blood of Jesus.

We get life and do it as often:

When we eat him we get life as the holy verse John 6:33 says: “For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” Jesus says in John 6:48, “I am the bread of life.” And in John 6:57 he says, “whoever eats me will live because of me.” Jesus says in John 6:53, “Very truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.” That is why the Lord Jesus asks to do it in remembrance of him as often. Let us read again 1 Corinthians 11:24-25: “This is my body that is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way he took the cup also, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”” The early Christians in Acts 2:46, “Day by day, as they spent much time together in the temple, they broke bread at home and ate their food with glad and generous hearts”. In the same way of early Christians, as Jesus asked his disciples, the Catholic Church alone is doing this in remembrance of Jesus every day. During the time of consecration, actually the transubstantiation takes place. When we do this in remembrance of him, the ordinary host the bread becomes the flesh and blood of Jesus. The member of Catholic Church after purifying themselves take and eat the flesh and blood of Jesus in the form of Eucharist and thereby get life. Oh my Pentecostal friend! Don’t you want your life to be strengthened and renewed and refreshed every day by Eucharistic Jesus? You can get in Catholic Church.

Satan’s crooked Plan:

Nowhere it is said in bible that the consecrated bread and wine do not change in to the body and blood of Jesus. Nowhere it is said in bible that we should think as if it is body and blood of Jesus whereas in reality they are not the body and blood of Jesus. But very explicitly again and again confirmed by the holy verses that Eucharist is Jesus. Yet, my pentecostal friend does not give much importance to Jesus who is in the form of Eucharist. He loses the life that Eucharistic Jesus gives to the world. He is having it once in a year that is contrary to the early Christians life and contrary to the will and wish of Jesus to do it in remembrance of him often. Thus each and every member of Pentecostal friends are deviating themselves away from the will and wish of Jesus. This is due to crooked Satan who prohibits them to get the life and love from Jesus through Eucharist often. Actually my pentecostal friend is not aware of Satan’s crookedness that separates him from Eucharistic Jesus. Thus Satan makes them to loose grace from Eucharist. Jesus is inviting all to receive his life often through Eucharist and there by renewed and refreshed us by his life. But the pentecostal friend is reluctant to receive this life. Jesus says in John 5:40, “Yet you refuse to come to me to have life.” Oh my Pentecostal friend! Please think of John 5:40. Jesus provides life for you in Catholic Church.

4) Sacrifice of Calvary cross:

Now let us examine the fourth view of my Pentecostal friend. He argues, when we do it in remembrance of him in Holy Mass, it is not the sacrifice of Calvary cross. If at all it is said to be the sacrifice of Calvary cross, there is a repetition of this sacrifice again and again through the Holy Mass that is not needed at all. Jesus offered a single Sacrifice for all sins of all time in the Calvary cross. There is no need of another sacrifice or the repetition of the very same Sacrifice of Calvary cross. So the Holy Mass is a meaningless one. For this he quotes Hebrews 10:12, Hebrews 10:14, and Hebrews 10:18.

Hebrews 10:12 says, “But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifices for sins he sat down at the right hand of the God.” So Jesus had offered a single sacrifice for all sins for all time. Hebrews 10:14 says, “For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.” And Hebrews 10:18 says, “where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.” Let us analyze his views:

When we are doing it in remembrance Jesus the bread and wine changed into the body and blood of Jesus. Here we have to note what Jesus specifies about this body the Eucharist in Luke 22:19: “This is my body, which is given for you.” Regarding his blood, he says in Matthew 26:28, “Drink from it, all of you; for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.” What does it mean? This means that this is the body and blood that are being given up and poured out for the sin of humanity that is given up and poured up in the Calvary a eternal sacrifice for past, present and future. So it is said in present tense. Since this sacrifice is not conditioned by Time and a perpetual sacrifice, it is having the effect of happening every now and then. It is applicable for every fraction of Time. So when we are doing it in remembrance of Jesus, the bread, and wine changed into the very same body and blood of Jesus that are sacrificed in the Calvary. Yes, transcending the time, the very same sacrificing body and blood of Jesus in Calvary appeared in altar and thereby the sacrifice of Calvary cross takes place wherever we do it in remembrance of Jesus. That is why it is said about the Eucharist, “This is my body, which is given for you” in Luke 22:19. Like that, regarding his blood Jesus says, “Drink from it, all of you; for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins” in Matthew 26:28. That is why it seems that Jesus stresses the words, “This cup” in Luke 22:20 that reads, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.” 1 Corinthians 11: 25 also says, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood.” So, when we do it in remembrance of Jesus in Holy Mass the very same sacrificing body and blood of Jesus in Calvary happen to be present in the altar beyond the time and thus we are getting the very great opportunity of taking part in the Sacrifice of Jesus at Calvary. So the Holy mass is not another sacrifice or repetition of the sacrifice of Calvary cross. But it is exactly the same sacrifice of Calvary cross. Here we see the argument of my Pentecostal friend proved lifeless. Let us read 1 Corinthians 11:26, “For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.”

Conclusion:

Whenever we remember our dear ones, we remember of their greatness and important incidences about them. Here Jesus asked us to do in remembrance of him the very great incidence of transubstantiation of bread and wine into his body and blood that are given up in sacrifice for the sin of humanity. This remembrance is the Holy Mass in Catholic Church that is conducted every day and often. The holy Eucharist is kept in the tabernacle or in Exposition and the Lord lives there among man. Thus the Lord extended his mercy to be with us in the Catholic Church. Oh my Pentecostal friend! You also can go to the Lord Jesus who is in the form of Eucharist who is full of life.

So let us go to such Lord who is in the form of Eucharist. Let us love him, worship him and be with him who is always expecting us. Let us once more remember the Lord’s voice in John 17:24 where Jesus says to God the Father, “I desire that those also, whom you have given me may be with me where I am to see my glory” And in Matthew 28:20 Jesus says, “And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age” Amen!