As many of you may have heard, the satanic temple of Atlanta has scheduled, and is selling tickets to, an event they are calling the Black Mass. This abomination which reportedly will include the desecration of a consecrated host will take place on Friday evening, October 25th.
The Our Lady of the Assumption Community will be answering our Archbishop’s call for prayer, penance, and prayers of reparation on this day (reference the note below). We invite you to join us in the Sanctuary for a multilingual Stations of the Cross at 8:00PM and, after that service, we will commence with Benediction and Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament; the true presence of our Savior. We will conclude at 10:00PM. If you cannot be with us in-person that evening, please make time to pray the Rosary starting at 9:00PM.
May what has prompted us to gather not be source of hatred, but one of communion that draws us closer to Christ. Closer to love one another as He loves us.
Blessed be God, Blessed be the name of Jesus, Blessed be His most Holy Blood, Blessed be Jesus in the most Holy Sacrament of the Altar.
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The Archdiocese of Atlanta was made aware that the satanic temple of Atlanta has scheduled a so-called Black Mass for Friday, October 25, at “MJQ Concourse/The Drunken Unicorn” on 736 Ponce De Leon Avenue NE in Atlanta.
Even though tickets are being sold for this event as if it were merely some sort of dark entertainment, this satanic ritual is a serious sacrilege. It is a blasphemous and obscene inversion of the Catholic Mass. Using a consecrated host they claim they obtained illicitly from a Catholic church and desecrating it in the vilest ways imaginable, the practitioners offer it in sacrifice to Satan.
This terrible sacrilege is a deliberate attack on the Catholic Mass as well as the foundational beliefs of all Christians. It mocks our Lord Jesus Christ, whom we Catholics believe is truly present under the form of bread and wine in the Holy Eucharist when it has been consecrated by a validly ordained priest.
I am calling on all Catholics of the Archdiocese of Atlanta to face this attack to our faith through prayer, penance and prayers of reparation. I am asking that each parish conducts a Eucharistic Holy Hour with Benediction to honor the real presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist, ideally on Friday, October 25, at 9 p.m., or between now and October 25 as an act of reparation to this proposed sacrilege.
We commend our efforts to the Lord through the loving intercession of Mary, the Mother of God.