The Catholic Church on Thursday retrieved a communion wafer that a satanist planned to use in a “black Mass” next month at Civic Center Music Hall.

The wafer was turned over a day after Oklahoma City Archbishop Paul S. Coakley filed a lawsuit seeking its protection and restoration to the Church.

“I am relieved that we have been able to secure the return of the sacred Host, and that we have prevented its desecration as part of a planned satanic ritual,” Coakley said in a statement issued by the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City.

Catholics believe the wafer, when consecrated by a priest, is transformed into the body of Christ. Satanists defile the consecrated host, a bit of unleavened bread a little bigger around than a quarter, in a ritual sacrifice to the devil known as a black Mass.