Three Loaves at Midnight, Easter Vigil

Before, we saw that the loaves and fishes are very profound. Two primary stories stand out of all. The five loaves and two fish seen in each gospel, and the seven loaves and few little fish in two Gospels. These are both Eucharistic of course, and the Eucharist has everything to do with Holy Communion, or, that is, Christian unity.

We saw that when Christian unity is disrupted, it does in fact affect the sacramental life.

Incredibly, when poor heretics, or good Protestants, leave the apostolic college of bishops, they lose five of the seven sacraments that require absolutely these bishops and priests.  These are confession anointing, confirmation, holy orders, and Eucharist.

No  Protestant minister can forgive sins as in confession and anointing. Only a validly ordained priest of the Orthodox or Catholic traditions can do this.  Confirmation only exists in apostolic religions like Catholic and orthodox.  Only a bishop or true successor of the apostles , which are only had in Catholic and Orthodox churches, can truly confer holy orders upon a man to become another bishop or a priest.

And only a priest, a validly ordained priest, can transform bread and wine into God, the second person of the Holy Trinity.

No Protestant minister can do any of these.

And so these five loaves are lost.

But they still have two fish. Baptism and marriage. From antiquity, the baptism of heretics is valid. And any two validly baptized Christians, even of the heretical sects, contract a Sacramental marriage upon each other when they mean the vows completely, are free to marry with no impediments, and consummate.

These can be the two fish, and note that fish come from the sea which is a place of chaos.

The scriptures say do not be tossed to and from by every wave of doctrine, which is the lot of the poor Protestants, who confound the Bible ad infinitum without the church.

The other story now follows under the same narrative.  The other form of division is schism, or the Orthodox. Because they do have valid apostolic succession, they do have all seven sacraments in validity like us.

Hence all seven loaves. But what are the few little fish?

Well, if as we've just seen with Protestants, fish indicate instability in chaos of doctrine, the Orthodox have a few little components of instability in their doctrines because they debate our stuff over the last millennium a little bit. This is because whereas they have the solid Earth to grow grain to make loaves, they have a little instability without the rock who is Pete, haha.

So each of the primary loaves and fishes stories make sense according to Christian division.

But there is a lesser well known parable. The three loaves at midnight which can be read below.

Here, it can no longer mean Christian division because we have already covered that, and there are only two forms of division, schism and heresy.

The three loaves then must be another way to look at the sacraments. 

The only other way to look at the sacraments is in category.

So it must refer to a category that has three sacraments.

Bingo! There is only one category that has three sacraments, and that is initiation. The other two categories each have only two sacraments: healing is anointing and confession, and vocation is holy orders and marriage.

From here, the following beautiful analogy coming used to complete a mystery of loaves and fishes. 

And he said to them: Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go to him at midnight, and shall say to him: Friend, lend me three loaves, [6] Because a friend of mine is come off his journey to me, and I have not what to set before him. [7] And he from within should answer, and say: Trouble me not, the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee. [8] Yet if he shall continue knocking, I say to you, although he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend; yet, because of his importunity, he will rise, and give him as many as he needeth. [9] And I say to you, Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and you shall find: knock, and it shall be opened to you. [10] For every one that asketh, receiveth; and he that seeketh, findeth; findeth; and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened.

Most of the children that live in the Father's house are given a loaf with flowing water at birth, another loaf that is the very Father's Son Himself when they have age of reason, and then, at some point soon after that, a loaf with seven wonderful nutrients. After that third loaf, the child has eaten enough to be a full grown up in the Father's House. And of the seven total loaves, and of the three groups of loaves that make up the seven, these three loaves make one of these groups. And this group of three is the only group that has three loaves [initiation, as opposed to healing and vocation, each of which only have two loaves].

That is, like Jewish time, they eat their loaves spread out from sunset on.

But some people never get fed when they are babies. They live a long time not knowing the way. They don't have a home and journey far and wide looking for a home and looking for food, they are so hungry and cold.

And then, The Father, His Son, and their Spirit send some one or some ones along to that poor person and they say, "We have a beautiful house where all men can live, and there is plenty to eat. Come and see, and you can live with us forever!"

And so that person finds the Father's House. But lo, the day begins, by the Master of the House, at sunset. All the regular children have eaten till they are full and resting for a time. It has been several hours since sunset. So the person arrives at midnight. He knocks on the door and begs the father inside to help him, to give him the three loaves that the someone told him about. That is, He says, "Sir, I am an adult, and I am hungry. I have not eaten since birth. Please give me three loaves that I may have my fill." At first the father is reluctant, but eventually he says ok. Of course, the Father doesn't have three loaves immediately ready, for they must be prepared. "You shall have to wait until they are PREPARED", so the person journeying needs to wait. Finally, then he is fed, and enters the House, at midnight, the Easter vigil after a long wait of RCIA!!