Monsignor Pope Ping!
Msgr Pope ping.
Interesting piece by him.
Amen and Amen! on this one.
I, too, have read those "wrong books".
Read them and rejected them.
that we are saved by Jesus Christ.
It is by being put into a saving relationship with Him that we are saved. This relationship changes us; it affects what we do and do not do. Thus our works change, but it is as a result of the relationship with the Lord.
The Msgr nails it.
If we keep our focus on Christ we will do well.
Thank-you, God Bless, and so very TRUE.
WE NEED to be in “right relationship with the Lord.”
“One of the sources of confusion is a failure to understand the deeper point: that we are saved by Jesus Christ.”
Well I’m confused because the Roman church teaches that they are saved by the false mary, a re-crucifixion of Jesus, the sacraments, and then Jesus Christ. Are you saved by just Christ or by all the others and Christ?
“All the Elect obtain eternal salvation through the means of Mary.” -Saint Ildephonsus, Bishop, d. 667 AD
”I have great doubts about the salvation of those who do not have special devotion to Mary.” -Saint Francis Borgia, 1510-1572 AD
”A man is no true Christian if he has no devotion to the Mother of Jesus Christ.” -Saint John Eudes, 1601-1680 AD
”To desire grace without recourse to the Virgin Mother is to desire to fly without wings.” -Pope Pius XII, 1876-1958 AD
“One indeed is the universal Church of the faithful, outside which no one at all is saved, in which the priest himself is the sacrifice, Jesus Christ, whose body and blood are truly contained in the sacrament of the altar under the species of bread and wine; the bread (changed) into His body by the divine power of transubstantiation, and the wine into the blood, so that to accomplish the mystery of unity we ourselves receive from His (nature) what He Himself received from ours.”
—Pope Innocent III and Lateran Council IV (A.D. 1215)
1129 The Church affirms that for believers the sacraments of the New Covenant are necessary for salvation.51 “Sacramental grace” is the grace of the Holy Spirit, given by Christ and proper to each sacrament. The Spirit heals and transforms those who receive him by conforming them to the Son of God. The fruit of the sacramental life is that the Spirit of adoption makes the faithful partakers in the divine nature52 by uniting them in a living union with the only Son, the Savior.
While I agree completely that we are saved by Jesus Christ the roman church doesn’t believe that nor does it teach that.
“This relationship changes us; it affects what we do and do not do.”
Is this at infant baptism or at some other point that I’m not aware of? The only change I see for the most part is they make sure that they go to mass Saturday night before going to get drunk, dance, and other obscene things at the roman church ordained kc hall.
“Hence we cannot really grasp Scripture unless we come to know Jesus Christ.”
And the only way we know Jesus Christ is to be born again (John 3:7) which I’m curious which ceremony does the roman church do that makes one born again?
While this all sounds great it’s a secular understanding while denying the power of God Himself.
2 Timothy 3:5
holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.
“deeper point: that we are saved by Jesus Christ”
We are saved by GRACE through faith and faith alone in Jesus Christ. The cross, piercing, crushing, death, burial, and resurrection were mechanisms that God used so that He could declare us righteous, holy, justified, and thus allowing us to be saved.
Ephesians 2:5,8
Romans 3:24
Acts 15:11
1 Peter 1:5
Without God’s grace and mercy He would have never sent Jesus Christ to pay the penalty of our sin.
Accept Jesus Christ as your personal Savior, become born again, and run from the roman church and you to will see the Holy Scriptures as they are truly written.