Posted on 09/29/2014 8:55:58 PM PDT by Salvation
"Ceterum censeo 0bama esse delendam."
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Some just don’t want the fullness. You have it! Rejoice!
If someone is not omniscient, they do not know. They have an opinion. It is the same fake, clap-trap that Rome uses to declare that because some person prayed to a saint, that the saint must have heard, they saint must have answered. It is a belief read back into Scripture to justify what a person wanted. It is called isogesis. It is the antithesis of biblical study.
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I suppose I will never understand why outsiders seem to feel compelled to talk us out of the Faith.
Thank you for the ping.
It is only in very recent years that I have come into asking for St. Michael’s help, and it has been such a comfort.
I C&P’d the following, which is part of an answer to a question about Uriel:
According to legend, Uriel was one of the seven archangels. Unlike the best known (Gabriel, Michael, and Raphael), however, his existence is not supported in any way by Scripture. He is thus attested to only in apocryphal writings such as the ones you mention in your question. Nevertheless, he was very popular throughout Jewish and Christian history, at least until 745 and a council in Rome that removed several angels from all recognized lists. Despite the official action of the Church, there persisted a fondness for Uriel, and his name appeared as St. Uriel in some areas, although he does not appear on the Calendar. In answer to your question, there is no official Church recognition of Uriel, either as an archangel or as a saint.
http://www.ewtn.com/vexperts/showmessage.asp?number=304207
Do you really think so? If I were in heaven and could look down on Earth to see all the myriad ways that my kids were screwing up and suffering, how would that be paradise? Would I not be worrying the whole time? I'm more inclined to believe there is a veil of separation that prevents the turmoils of this world from intruding upon our heavenly worship.
Of course, I was never raised on the notion of praying to "the saints", so at least I am consistent.
I don’t understand it either. I wouldn’t make it without St. Michael the Arch Angel.
Very interesting information. I really like that picture. Stained glass no doubt.
Posts on Free Republic counter quotes from the BIBLE??
The Bible is "doubleminded?"
Is Romans in the Catholic Bible?
There are many who consider only 66 books to be divinely inspired and that only those books make up the complete Bible.
However, I respect your right to disagree.
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