Father Dan Reehil

So for maybe 300, 400 years, there was no brick and mortar church.

They were in people's homes.

but they were celebrating the Mass the way that Jesus did at the Last Supper.

So they were taking the bread and the wine, praying the prayers of consecration, and turning it into his body and blood, and that was what was sustaining them, and that was giving them even the graces to die for Jesus and his cause, this church, that people would, the blood of the martyrs is kind of the seed that it spurns on the church to go forward.

So yeah, that's absolutely correct.

Once you have Constantine come on the scene and basically took up Christianity as the religion of the

and he put the cross on all the flag bearing, the flags, when he would go into battle.

Then they knew they could build churches because the king would protect them, the Roman emperor would protect them.

And that's when the churches got built, and they've continued to build them ever since.

But you go into countries like in the Middle East that are Muslim, there's still a lot of underground churches where there's no, it's just in people's homes because they know if we're discovered, it could be a big problem.

Did you know that?

I did.

And no priest, no Eucharist.

No priest, no confession.

It would be terrible.

It would be terrible.

But if you want to go back to scripturally, Moses was a huge middleman.

I mean, he was constantly interceding for those people, you know, and it was only by Moses' prayers that God was, we relent and, you know, take them back into his custody, his shelter of his protection.

But does God need a middleman?

Of course not.