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To: narses
Here I'll help you.

The use of temples, and these dedicated to particular saints, and ornamented on occasions with branches of trees; incense, lamps, and candles; votive offerings on recovery from illness; holy water; asylums; holydays and seasons, use of calendars, processions, blessings on the fields; sacerdotal vestments, the tonsure, the ring in marriage, turning to the East, images at a later date, perhaps the ecclesiastical chant, and the Kyrie Eleison, are all of pagan origin, and sanctified by their adoption into the Church.[Cardinal Newman - Development of Christian Doctrine, pg 373]

And you didn't think the Catholic Church incorporates paganism?

1,434 posted on 10/13/2014 8:34:00 PM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus info)
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To: CynicalBear

If Jesus appeared to you and told you to follow all Catholic rituals and practices and follow Him as Founder of His Church, what would you do?


1,436 posted on 10/13/2014 8:36:52 PM PDT by narses ( For the Son of man shall come ... and then will he render to every man according to his works.)
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