Roman Catholic Priest Markus Steinert from the Saint Michael Church leads the bread-breaking ceremony.
In the context of the ecumenical movement, “breaking bread” refers primarily to the act of sharing the Eucharist (for Catholics) or Holy Communion (for Protestants) among the various Christian denominations. This act symbolizes unity, fellowship, and the breaking down of barriers between the different religious traditions.
From May 13–24, 2024, Roman Catholics, Evangelicals, and Seventh-day Adventists celebrated an ecumenical “Bible” feast. The Roman Catholic Church of Saint Michael, located in Kassel, Germany, stated that they were delighted to celebrate with their Seventh-day Adventist brothers in Christ and issued the following announcement about the ecumenical Bible Week, culminating with breaking bread at an ecumenical service in a Catholic Church.
The announcement stated that “the Bible connects” and listed the following:
• A warm invitation to the ecumenical Bible evening
• God’s creation, gift, and responsibility
• Tuesday, May 13, 2024, 7:00 p.m. – Protestant Parish Kassel-Wehlheiden Advent Church
• Thursday, May 16, 2024, 7:00 p.m. – Advent Church Kassel Seventh-day Adventists
• Tuesday, May 21, 2024, 7:00 p.m. – Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church, St. Michaelis
• Thursday, May 23, 2024, 7:00 p.m. – Evangelical Parish of Kassel Sudstadt Markuskirche
• Friday, May 24, 2024, 7:00 p.m. – Ecumenical service at the Catholic Church of St. Michael
• The Bible evenings are intended as a series but can also be attended individually.
The ecumenical movement seeks to promote unity and cooperation among all churches, and we can see how it is drawing the world into the arms of Rome. We see various churches in full communion, breaking bread together in a Roman Catholic Church. When participants from different denominations “break bread” together, it represents a tangible expression of their commitment to overcoming divisions and fostering a sense of shared faith and community. Breaking bread is both a literal act of sharing a meal and a metaphorical expression of fellowship and spiritual communion.
By participating in this shared ecumenical ritual, members of the ecumenical movement demonstrate their desire to achieve greater understanding and solidarity among each other, emphasizing their common beliefs and avoiding doctrinal differences. This is the heart of Pope Francis’ message, as outlined in his encyclical Fratelli Tutti. Breaking bread (Eucharist) is a powerful symbol of reconciliation and mutual respect, aimed at achieving unity with the man of sin.
In contrast to the ecumenical movement, the mission of the Remnant Church is fundamentally centered on engaging the world with the intent of sharing the everlasting gospel in context with the Three Angels’ Messages of Revelation 14. This is not just present truth, but our present duty. This evangelistic drive is rooted in the Great Commission, where Jesus instructed His followers to “go and make disciples of all nations” (Matthew 28:19). Revelation 14 is a fulfillment of this commission.
Our main purpose is to spread the message of salvation through Jesus and warn people against the beast, the image, and the mark. Only as we proclaim this message will the church fulfill its divine mandate. Every activity and initiative undertaken by God’s people ultimately serves this primary mission of leading people of all denominations to embrace the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus (Revelation 14:12).
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it is worrying to see us go this far into the arms of the beast.
Agreed. This should have never happened
Can you tell me the real meaning behind this?
Pope Francis announced June 5 that a text on the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a spirituality born in 17th-century France, would be published by the Vatican in September.
I am preparing a document to repropose today this cult, rich in spiritual beauty,” he said in front of thousands of faithful gathered in St. Peter’s Square.
This spirituality developed notably through the Society of Jesus, particularly the Jesuit priest Saint Claude La Colombière, who accompanied Saint Margaret.
It is a backsliding church that lessens the distance between itself and the Papacy. – ST February 19, 1894
The Lord has pronounced a curse upon those who take from or add to the Scriptures. The great I AM has decided what shall constitute the rule of faith and doctrine, and he has designed that the Bible shall be a household book. The church that holds to the word of God is irreconcilably separated from Rome. Protestants were once thus apart from this great church of apostasy, but they have approached more nearly to her, and are still in the path of reconciliation to the Church of Rome. Rome never changes. Her principles have not altered in the least. She has not lessened the breach between herself and Protestants; they have done all the advancing. But what does this argue for the Protestantism of this day? It is the rejection of Bible truth which makes men approach to infidelity. It is a backsliding church that lessens the distance between itself and the Papacy. – ST February 19, 1894
It is souls like Luther, Cranmer, Ridley, Hooper, and the thousands of noble men who were martyrs for the truth’s sake, who are the true Protestants. They stood as faithful sentinels of truth, declaring that Protestantism is incapable of union with Romanism, but must be as far separated from the principles of the Papacy as is the east from the west. Such advocates of truth could no more harmonize with “the man of sin” than could Christ and his apostles. In earlier ages the righteous felt that it was impossible to affiliate with Rome, and, though their antagonism to this system of error was maintained at risk of property and life, yet they had courage to maintain their separation, and manfully struggled for the truth. Bible truth was dearer to them than wealth, honor, or even life itself. They could not endure to see the truth buried under a mass of superstition and lying sophistry. They took the word of God in their hands, and raised the standard of truth before the people, boldly declaring that which God had revealed unto them through diligent searching of the Bible. They died the cruelest of deaths for their fidelity to God, but by their blood they purchased for us liberties and privileges that many who claim to be Protestants are easily yielding up to the power of evil. But shall we yield up these dearly bought privileges? Shall we offer insult to the God of heaven, and, after he has freed us from the Romish yoke, again place ourselves in bondage to this antichristian power? Shall we prove our degeneracy by signing away our religious liberty, our right to worship God according to the dictates of our own conscience? – ST February 19, 1894
The voice of Luther, that echoed in mountains and valleys, that shook Europe as with an earthquake, summoned forth an army of noble apostles of Jesus, and the truth they advocated could not be silenced by fagots, by tortures, by dungeons, by death; and still the voices of the noble army of martyrs are telling us that the Roman power is the predicted apostasy of the last days, the mystery of iniquity which Paul saw beginning to work even in his day. Roman Catholicism is rapidly gaining ground. Popery is on the increase, and those who have turned their ears away from hearing the truth are listening to her delusive fables. Papal chapels, papal colleges, nunneries, and monasteries are on the increase, and the Protestant world seems to be asleep. Protestants are losing the mark of distinction that distinguished them from the world, and they are lessening the distance between themselves and the Roman power. They have turned away their ears from hearing the truth; they have been unwilling to accept light which God shed upon their pathway, and are therefore going into darkness. They speak with contempt of the idea that there will be a revival of the past cruel persecution on the part of Romanists and those who affiliate with them. They do not recognize the fact that the word of God fully predicts such a revival, and will not concede that the people of God in the last days shall suffer persecution, although the Bible says, “The dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.” – ST February 19, 1894
Popery is the religion of human nature, and the mass of humanity love a doctrine that permits them to commit sin, and yet frees them from its consequences. People must have some form of religion, and this religion, formed by human device, and yet claiming divine authority, suits the carnal mind. Men who think themselves wise and intelligent turn away in pride from the standard of righteousness, the ten commandments, and do not think it is in harmony with their dignity to inquire into the ways of God. Therefore they go into false ways, into forbidden paths, become self-sufficient, self inflated, after the pattern of the pope, not after the pattern of Jesus Christ. They must have the form of religion that has the least requirement of spirituality and self-denial, and as unsanctified human wisdom will not lead them to loathe popery, they are naturally drawn toward its provisions and doctrines. They do not want to walk in the ways of the Lord. They are altogether too much enlightened to seek God prayerfully and humbly, with an intelligent knowledge of his word. Not caring to know the ways of the Lord, their minds are all open to delusions, all ready to accept and believe a lie. They are willing to have the most unreasonable, most inconsistent falsehoods palmed off upon them as truth. – ST February 19, 1894
Satan’s masterpiece of deception is popery; and while it has been demonstrated that a day of great intellectual darkness was favorable to Romanism, it will also be demonstrated that a day of great intellectual light is also favorable to its power; for the minds of men are concentrated on their own superiority, and do not like to retain God in their knowledge. Rome claims infallibility, and Protestants are following in the same line. They do not desire to search for truth and go on from light to a greater light. They wall themselves in with prejudice, and seem willing to be deceived and to deceive others. – ST February 19, 1894
But though the attitude of the churches is discouraging, yet there is no need of being disheartened; for God has a people who will preserve their fidelity to his truth, who will make the Bible, and the Bible alone, their rule of faith and doctrine, who will elevate the standard, and hold aloft the banner on which is inscribed, “The commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.” They will value a pure gospel, and make the Bible the foundation of their faith and doctrine. – ST February 19, 1894
For such a time as this, when men are casting aside the law of the Lord of hosts, the prayer of David is applicable,—“It is time for thee, Lord, to work; for they have made void thy law.” We are coming to a time when almost universal scorn will be heaped upon the law of God, and God’s commandment-keeping people will be severely tried; but will they lose their respect for the law of Jehovah because others do not see and realize its binding claims? Let God’s commandment-keeping people, like David, reverence God’s law in proportion as men cast it aside and heap upon it disrespect and contempt. – ST February 19, 1894
How difficult is it to simply not attend?
Soon they will be breaking bread on Sundays.