Archbishop Gregory J. Hartmayer of Atlanta is calling upon the faithful to offer prayers of reparation to counter a black mass being conducted by The Satanic Temple on the evening of October 25 at the MJQ Concourse in Atlanta.
According to The Satanic Temple, the mass will take place during an event they describe as “a night where Artist and Satanic Ministers together Summon three demons in a Satanic Black Mass.” Billed as a “celebration of blasphemy, which can be an expression of personal liberty and freedom,” the event will include a burlesque, costume party, raffle and games.
Catholics across the nation are responding with outrage at the event which will involve the deliberate desecration of a consecrated Host.
“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,” Archbishop Hartmayer said in an Oct. 8 memo to clergy, religious sisters and staff of the archdiocese. “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.”
He went on to say that 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.”
He is calling upon Catholics in the Archdiocese of Atlanta to counter this attack upon our faith with prayer, penance and prayers of reparation. Specifically, he is asking all parishes in the Archdiocese of Atlanta to conduct a Eucharistic Holy Hour with Benediction to honor the real presence of Jesus in the Holy Eucharist as an act of reparation to this sacrilege.
Catholics around the country are urged to do the same, as well as to recite prayers of reparation to the Blessed Sacrament.
Pope Pius VII granted an indulgence to everyone who, with contrition for his sins and with devotion, says the following Act of Reparation to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament:
Jesus, my God, my Savior, true God and true Man, with that most profound homage with which the faith itself inspires me, I adore and love Thee with my whole heart, enclosed in the most august Sacrament of the Altar, in reparation for all the acts of irreverence, profanation, and sacrilege, which I may ever have been so unhappy as to have committed, as well as for all such like acts that ever have been done, or which may be done, though God forbid they should be, in ages yet to come.
I adore Thee, therefore, my God, not indeed as Thou deservest, nor as much as I am bound to adore, but as far as I am able; and I would that I could adore Thee with all the perfection of which all reasonable persons are capable. Meantime I purpose now and ever to adore Thee, not only for those Catholics who adore Thee not, and love Thee not, but also in the stead of, and for the conversion of all heretics, schismatics, impious atheists, blasphemers, impostors, Mahometans, Jews, and idolaters.
Jesus, my God, mayest Thou be ever known, adored, loved, and praised every moment, in the most holy and divine Sacrament.
Amen.
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