Posted on 03/15/2016 3:12:35 AM PDT by detective
The Vatican committee that approves elevations to sainthood will meet Tuesday to consider a recommendation that Mother Teresa of Calcutta becomes Saint Teresa, the Holy See announced on Monday.
With the long-awaited decision seen as a formality, Pope Francis is expected to sign a decree approving the canonisation of the 1979 Nobel peace prize winner and set a date and venue for it to happen.
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Not so fast!
This is a mere distraction from the anti-pope as he continues ramming Marxist heretical doctrinal changes down your throat, publicly fawning over sodomites as he does, and angling to distribute Holy Communion to fornicators, wholesale, for example.
All his official actions can be declared void once he is exposed and rejected as a heretic non-Catholic anti-pope.
It has happened before with a heretical “pope”.
Besides, in spite of the self-sacrificing charity we’ve witnessed in Mother Theresa, she is not without serious error.
She has been seen kneeling before statues associated with a strange religion.
She has been photographed distributing “hosts” with her own hands, forbidden by the Church. Distribution of Holy Communion is permitted only by a consecrated priest.
Are you joking? I honestly can’t tell. My mom gives Communion to my homebound grandma. It happens all the time, all over the world. And being a Saint does not mean without sin/error. I’m hoping you are being sarcastic and I just haven’t had enough coffee this morning to catch it! Either way, hope you have a wonderful day!
“Are you joking?...”
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No. Serious.
The point is, even though many can be a saint, for the Church to discern it and declare it is a very serious responsibility because it means we should be very unhesitant to imitate the person in nearly everything.
Thus the number of DECLARED saints ought to be few due to caution and delicate care.
With JPII a saint conveyor began after he threw out ancient protocol for evaluating sainthood. (Fruit of an anti-pope)
Declared Sainthood became a cheap and easy to attain process.
(Laziness is a sin, and a sign of possible fraud.)
And thus today we are dumbed down to the process, which explains your alarm.
Vatican II and its fruits need to be exposed and invalidated. Let the judgment begin.
“Who am I to judge?” I am a REAL Catholic (if by the help of God through Jesus and Mary).
Or by a Eucharistic minister. I've been privileged to distribute the Body of Christ when visiting house-bound communicants - this is not unusual.
Hey, R&R-—
Wooo! More bitter than a serpent’s tongue! Classic!
But you forgot the /sarc/
Update: The date for canonization is set for Sept. 4. She died on Sept. 5, 1997.
We are all called to be “saints”. The more the better.
Yes.
We Christian Catholics NEED more declared from the 20th century as a reminder that the call to holiness by God can be realized by the faithful in the 21st century as well.
“We Christian Catholics NEED more declared from the 20th century as a reminder that the call to holiness by God can be realized by the faithful in the 21st century as well.”
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“We are all called to be “saints”. The more the better.”
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Those are fine sentiments, but there is a major housekeeping problem that needs taken care of first.
Biggirl, I suppose when you arrive home and find the house not properly picked up and in order you find it difficult to get dinner on the table.
You will likely take ten minutes to pick up, sweep up, put away old dishes then get on with the meal.
So it is with the Church and declaring saints.
We have currently frauds in the Vatican who came in on the wings of a fraudulent council, under (fraudulent) anti-pope “JXXIII” and consummated and promulgated by his successor anti-pope “PVI”.
The council was led by a group of six invited (heretics) protestant ministers by the will of JXXIII. His intention was to promote and implement the heresy of Modernism, explicitly condemned by true pope Saint Pius X.
And so today when we want good things to happen in the Church we must first go back and enable a true pope to lead it.
Acts of false popes, no matter how public and in appearance beautiful the ceremonies are, they are still invalid.
That is not to say that a pope blessed and led into power by the Holy Spirit could not declare as saint someone whose sainthood was first declared invalid due to invalid process.
We must be patient and wait on God to heal and correct what man has perverted, and we can either participate with God as did doctors of the Church in history, or we can fight against God as did the anti-popes mentioned above.
There are significant movements afoot along these lines.
Thank-you for your response.
I very Mother Terresa as a saint and this was way before the Church was planning to declare her a saint because she lived the Gospel of Jesus in full, by her devotion to both God and the poor.
God has made Mother Teresa a saint long before the Church did, and I accept it.
“We are all called to be “saints”. The more the better.”
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The point of declaring saints is perhaps primarily to provide an impeccable model for the faithful to follow.
It also insures the faithful that they can effectually seek the saints’ intercession.
If a saint is wrongly declared it would be a sin of putting a stumbling block in front of “one of these little ones”.
Would you like to be the one standing before Almighty God at judgment day and give account for having misled his precious sheep?
Numerous saints have stated that few are they that even find heaven; Jesus our Lord declared that few are they that walk on the narrow path that leads to salvation and many who walk the broad road of destruction.
We must live in reality, not wishful thinking.
Back to your comment: A person can get to heaven without being declared a saint by the Church. There are many holy saints who were never formally declared so. That is OK.
So let’s not confuse official declarations with final tally.
There is a difference.
Peace.
“Would you like to be the one standing before Almighty God at judgment day and give account for having misled his precious sheep?”
....And I ask you this question, would you like to stand before Amighty God on judgement day to give an account on why were you sowing division among the faithful?
I forgive you as another believer. Go in peace. God Bless.
“...why were you sowing division among the faithful?”
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The Vatican II heretics will be asked that question. They brought division like none other. The modern anti-popes have made countless statements that contradict Catholic theology like none in history.
That is where division is found. The followers of heretics are not “the faithful” but rather are like the anti-popes the infidels.
With shouts of “Out with the old; in with the new!” they created a huge divide between all declared saints and all Christendom versus the “Church” going forward with them. The two are irreconcilable (exceptions involving invincible ignorance may be possible).
“She has been photographed distributing “hosts” with her own hands, forbidden by the Church. Distribution of Holy Communion is permitted only by a consecrated priest.”
Have you even been inside a Catholic church in your entire life. You don’t know what you are talking about. I receive communion at least once a week and over 90% of the time it is from a lay Eucharistic minister. Lay Eucharistic ministers also distribute communion to hospital patients, nursing home patients and other Catholics who are unable to attend mass.
To those that might add discourse to this article, I am not Catholic but sainthood by the Pope is a great way to elevate her works into the public light. No one is perfect, but she did more to help people and lead others to help people than anyone I can think of. Her life was an excellent example of charity.
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