Posted on 11/12/2022 7:44:47 AM PST by lowbridge
The famous Jewish actor and humorist Gad Elmaleh, beloved in France, announced his conversion to the Catholic faith, a process in which he says the Virgin Mary played a crucial role.
Elmaleh, 51, was the partner of Charlotte Casiraghi, the daughter of Princess Caroline of Monaco, with whom they have a son named Rafael.
His conversion to Catholicism is depicted in his new film, “Reste un peu,” (“Stay a while”).
The Jewish actor, who according to the Spanish newspaper El Mundo will take the name of Jean-Marie when he is baptized, has studied theology in Paris, and in 2019 he participated in a musical in London about St. Bernadette Soubirous, the visionary who saw Our Lady of Lourdes.
Elmaleh told the French newspaper Le Figaro that “the Virgin Mary is my most beautiful love” and expressed his surprise that in France the “vast majority of Catholics don’t live their faith openly.”
As a child, he recounted in the interview, he entered a church and saw an image of the Mother of God.
“It wasn’t a vision, just a simple statue, but I was petrified. I began to cry and hid for fear of being discovered by my family, for fear of curses and superstition. I kept it a secret for my entire childhood,” he recalled.
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To: grey_whiskers ...and it stuck by sheer force of repetition;
Hail Mary, Mother of GOD... |
That wasn’t the one I was thinking of.
It was 86.
Speaking of repetition.
A while back, someone posted how to determine at least WHO posted a removed reply, but I failed to save the instructions.
Showing of failing to check sources before accusing.
How do you know you have won the argument with greg whiskers? He calls you a troll. It’s the way he ends every encounter with non Q cultists
I have a cold and I’ve been up all night. And I was only off by 1 on the post number.
Get stuffed.
Stay behind the fence, little pup.
“there are many accounts of Mary, whether appearing to people, or, God granting prayers after praying the Rosary, “
Demonic activity.
“sheer force of repetition”
Sort of a hilarious accusation when you consider “Say twenty Hail Marys”, or mumbo-jumbling while fondling plastic beads.
Missing the mark.
Great definition of sin.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=catholic+Missing+the+mark.+Great+definition+of+sin.&ia=web
They don’t give examples of Scriptura. That’s the problem.
Just repeating the phrase “it it written” is insufficient to establish the claim.
"Hail Mary...
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Demonic activity.
You're incorrect.
“sheer force of repetition”
Sort of a hilarious accusation when you consider “Say twenty Hail Marys”, or mumbo-jumbling while fondling plastic beads.
Not at all. Quoting the phrase "it is written" over and over does not prove Sola Scriptura...which is itself a man-made doctrine, around 1500 years after Christianity started; and which had not been promulgated by any branch of Christianity until the reformation.
And when one prays the rosary, one is supposed to be meditating on specific events in the lives of Christ and the Apostles.
As the closing prayer for the rosary comes out and says, "O God, whose only-begotten Son, by his life, death, and resurrection, has purchased for us the rewards of eternal life; grant, we beseech you, that we who meditate upon these mysteries of the most holy rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary, may imitate what they contain and obtain what they promise. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen."
I would not toss around the phrase "man-made" so lightly...
https://catholicism.org/rosary-history.html
Tradition does hold that St. Dominic (d. 1221) devised the rosary as we know it.
Must be hard - meditating on one thing while speaking something else.
St. Dominic credited the Rosary with helping him defeat the Albegensian heresy (sprit==good, matter=evil, briefly).
Goodie for him.
Sure you do, but mostly to attack Catholics. 😉 Of course you don't want to admit Sola Scriptura is man-made.
Because then you have to admit that man-made things can result in things which you hold to be both good and essential.
But if you claim it's inspired by God, and trustworthy...then that means individual revelations of the Holy Spirit still happen.
Even after the Scriptures were done being written.
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