What an incredibly sad discourse on paganism. Not one of the points she mentioned is taught in scripture.
Most people are what ever religion they are because that is what their parents were. This is a list of things you like about your religion, but it’s not really why the author is a Catholic. That’s probably down to birth.
YAWN!
I am more than happy to remain in the Church where Jesus is really and truly present,
Wrong. Sorry, but Christ doesn't hang with anti-christs
with the end goal of the sanctifying my soul.
Sorry, but a long dead woman CANNOT sanctify your soul, nor can some fanatical following of her.
Just like any good friend, saints inspire and pray for me. The journey of my spiritual life is easier with their assistance.
Wrong and wrong again. The saints are dead. Christ says no one gets to the Father but through him. Not through Mary. Not through a priest, and certainly not through dead "saints".
“I absolve you from your sins, may God give you pardon and peace.”
Only God can save you from your sins. A priest cannot.
Purgatory is the place where all who die in God’s grace and friendship but are still imperfectly purified undergo purification after death so as the achieve holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven.
No such thing. This is a figment of catholic imagination. You go to Heaven or you go to Hell, period. There are no stops between.
It never ceases to amaze how many have been fooled by the beast into believing false religions such as catholicism. There are going to be some very sad folks on judgement day.
Why am I?
Because in the passage where Jesus looks at Peter and says “Upon this Rock I will build My Church”, I believe that he was personally, directly commissioning the Catholic Church to spread His word throughout the world.
Granted we have failed miserably in that mission many times, largely due to our corrupt, arrogant leadership. And I cannot blame Protestants from walking away at the times that they did. When Martin Luther ripped into the Church for selling indulgences, he was morally, unequivocally right.
But I always felt that the Catholic Church was an idea that was worth staying and fighting for, given the personal commission given to Peter by Christ.
Though now, I have to admit, the Pope’s love letter to Communism has me seriously rethinking that.
Is this why the majority of Catholics vote pro-abortion?
I was hoping to read about the struggles of Catholics during the present crisis.
Her article points out what I am no longer Catholic
1. I am more than happy to remain in the Church where Jesus is really and truly present, and where I can be united to Him in receiving Communion.
If you truely had Jesus living inside you as Scripture indicates then you wouldn’t need to visit a building or eat a cracker to know him.
However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him. If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.
2. Blessed Virgin Mary. The Church exalts the Mother of God as the perfect apostle and bestows dignity to womanhood. Since Mary was “preserved free from all stain of original sin”
By saying that she is the mother of God you are denying the true deity of Jesus Christ. God has no beginning or end thus cannot be created. Believing in only God will send you to Hell, but to believe in Jesus Christ you have both him and the Father.
The angel answered and said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; and for that reason the holy Child shall be called the Son of God
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me. 7”If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; from now on you know Him, and have seen Him.
And Mary said: “My soul exalts the Lord, And my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior.
She wouldn’t need a Savior if she was sinless.
3. The saints. By the rigorous process of canonization, the Catholic Church venerates the saints as humans
Just vein no more no less.
He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves in the eyes of others, but God knows your hearts. What people value highly is detestable in God’s sight.
4.Penance and Reconciliation
Jesus paid the price you are not good enough to do anything good or right.
but He, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, SAT DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD,
IT IS FINISHED!!!
5. Purgatory
Satin’s doubt about God’s perfect Salvation.
The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.
6. from the Sacraments to endure sacrifice
If it’s from the sacraments then it’s not a gift from God, but earned and deserved thus not Grace from God.
7. Magisterium. Jesus Christ established the Catholic Church
So God’s chosen church with it chosen pope believes in the worship of the earth god gaia with his atheist science adviser? Or who am I to judge that homosexual behavior is sinful? Or transfer child molesters instead of removing them? Or kissed the koran and said that you, him, and muslims worship the same god which by the way is Satan? Or believes that capitalism is evil and socialism is so much better? That’s enough for now.
You are happy because you are serving your flesh and not the Spirit of God. Repent and start serving God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit instead of praying to your goddess and kneeling to your graven image of heavenly things.
“Purgatory is the place where all who die in God’s grace and friendship but are still imperfectly purified/” Um, if you die in God’s Grace you have been born from above and have no need of cultish fantasies like purgatory. Is it true that running the rosary regularly cuts down on time in catholic purgatory?
This is not presented as a mere wafer, rather the RCC claim according to the Catechism paragraph 1374 'the whole Christ is truly, really, and substantially contained' in the wafer, of course by the magical power the RCC priest is embued with by the system of RCC Tradition, specious reference to scripture, and the magicsteeringthem.
But there's more in that Catechism paragraph 1374: "In the (RCC) Eucharist the body and blood, together with the soul and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ" is contained in the wafer for the altar! So, roman Catholicism tells their followers that Jesus is once again the real present victim for sacrifice in the RCC Mass.
Of course, Jesus said no man takes His life, He lays it down willingly for us, so this imagined victim ritual is specious at the very heart of it. However, the implications of this religion trying to claim they can ingest the life of God is also astonishing since it would mean through their magic mystery rite they can force God to repeat what He has declared Finished.
The poor follower of this false religion then believes they have renewed their salvation by consuming the real and substantial Jesus Christ. That is prime paganism at its best and the RCC peddles it as sacred.
And what has been left out of the ritual which Jesus said to partake of in remembrance of His sacrifice --not repeating it over and over and over again? well of course the ONLY thing that can actually wash away the sins of the believer, the blood of Jesus. Perhaps even the RCC secretly realize that they re violating a commandent from God begun in Genesis 9 and codified into the laws in Levitixus 3:17, to never, ever drink the blood of the creatur or human because the life is in the blood.
The Life, human Life of Jesus was in His blood. That blood is not some gimmick to be nicolaitanized in repetitive rites of empowerment for the RCC. It was the precious blood spread upon the Mercy Seat in Heaven for we sinners. Jesus does not get sacrificed over and over and over again as the RCC claims with every Mass. He is not called down from Heaven to earth at the magic command of the RCC priest. Jesus is coming back to Earth, as we can read in Revelation, at the end of the Great Tribulation period. So RCC priests cannot yoyo Him up and down from the Throne of God for their Mass ritual.
The following video is very dry, but VERY important to understand the heresy of transubstantiation and Henry Newman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-23dgg1Xi8