A Catholic Ecumenical Leader Promotes the Eucharistic Mass and Communication with the Dead Inside an Adventist Church

Don Lorenzo Magarelli is a former Catholic priest who served at the St. Pasquale Catholic Church on Villa Revoltella in Trieste, Italy. He is now working with the Secretariat for Ecumenical Activities (SAE) Group of Trieste, a regional interfaith organization that seeks Christian unity among the different religions in Italy. When Don Lorenzo Magarelli is not socializing with Cardinal Turkson, the former Prefect of the Vatican's Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development and now chancellor of the Pontifical Academies of Sciences, he is busy teaching Catholic doctrine in Seventh-day Adventist churches.

On May 11, 2022, the SAE Group of Trieste announced through their official channels that Don Lorenzo Magarelli had visited the Seventh Day Adventist Church of Trieste (Via Rigutti) and spoke about the Communion of the Saints (dead) from a "Catholic perspective." The SAE Group of Trieste also published a photo of Don Lorenzo Magarelli speaking inside the Trieste Seventh-day Adventist Church. (See the Facebook post from the SAE's "Churches of Trieste" page). During his message, Don Lorenzo Magarelli reminded the Seventh-day Adventist congregation that it was the "Eucharist that makes us part of the same Church." The SAE Group of Trieste published the following:

• "On Monday 9 May 2022, at the Adventist Christian Church, Don Lorenzo Magarelli gave a conference on the theme 'I believe in the Communion of Saints: the Catholic perspective.' The meeting was organized by the Ecumenical Group/SAE of Trieste which for the year 2021-2022 chose the 'communion of saints' as a topic for reflection."

This is what ecumenism and interfaith cooperation lead to: Catholic officials teaching Rome's doctrines in our churches. Next, Don Lorenzo Magarelli pushed the pure wine of Babylon at this Seventh-day Adventist Church. The SAE Group of Trieste continued in their news report:

• "It is the Eucharist that makes us part of the same Church because we participate in the one bread: the body and blood of Christ have a meaning for the Catholic, substantial and for this reason, after the Holy Supper, the bread remains the Body of Christ."

• "Therefore, communion with holy things makes us holy. But where does this communion manifest itself? First of all, it speaks of the Church, of the living baptized, but also of eternal life after death, in the sense that there is an intimate relationship between those who ate the Eucharistic bread - and who are part of the earthly Church -, and a communion with those who have passed through the narrow gate of death and enjoy the goods of Heaven. For us believers, death is a passage, it is a presence deeply rooted in our life, as St. Francis of Assisi saw well, calling it 'our corporal sister'."

• "Catholics, in fact, do not venerate the saints as demigods, as is sometimes mistakenly believed, but they have a vision based on a balanced theological realism: if I have been in communion with a brother in life, when this brother is in Heaven, I keep talking to him."

These viewpoints have no place in our churches. This is a lesson in communicating with the dead! This is what our churches are exposed to as a result of ecumenism. The Secretariat for Ecumenical Activities (SAE) Group of Trieste organized this Catholic indoctrination event in this Seventh-day Adventist church. This is what happens when you embark on the path of interfaith cooperation with other churches. It will result in the Catholic indoctrination of our people.

Rome's ecumenical messages about Eucharistic unity, communication with the dead, and pantheistic ecological conversion will lead to the mark of the beast. These are distractions designed to keep us from fulfilling our calling. You cannot be faithful to God while supporting these interfaith gatherings and Catholic indoctrination taking place in Italy and other parts of the world. Faithfulness to God, faithfulness to the Word of God, and faithfulness to the church leaves us with no other choice than to denounce and resist this diabolical event described above. There is no middle ground on this matter.

This is also not an isolated incident. Don't believe that this is just one church in Italy that has done this on its own. We must never forget to point out where the real problem began. It's the leadership that allows this and encourages it. These local churches are only doing what their conferences and unions are already doing. And the unions are only doing what the General Conference, and specifically, the Public Affairs and Religious Liberty Department, headed by Ganoune Diop, is doing, which is promoting and organizing many of these ecumenical activities. It would be an injustice to simply look at this one local church in Italy and say, "What a compromise and a tragedy!" and not realize that the problem stems from the top.

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