I've read them but trying to follow the logic therein is similar to understanding the characters in "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia".
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at catholicnewsagency.com ...
He’s failed to notice that about a third, or a half, of his cut-and-paste actually proves the opposite of his point.
One trend in Protestant churches (except some of the more careful and scholarly like, say, Dutch Reformed) is to do a “Bible Search” where you look at an interesting verse, then pick a keyword out of it, and trace other uses of that word in the Bible, on the (man-made!) principle that “Scripture interprets scripture” and that therefore, two verses which share a word or phrase in common, *necessarily* have relevant bearing on understanding each other.
This makes for some pretty strange conclusions, like someone quoting Simeon’s word s to Mary “Your own soul a sword shall pierce” and jumping from that to Hebrews 4:12 about the Word of God being living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, able to separate soul and Spirit” and from that saying Mary was present at Pentecost — despite his fellow troll fairly shouting that it WASN’T in the Bible that Mary was at Pentecost. And doing that while posting two verses out of Acts, one showing Mary was with the disciples, and then the other verse saying they were all together in one room at Pentecost.
Someone without a slavish, cult like devotion to limit everything solely to the written text (and that without anyone keeping an eye on them), might have remembered about Pentecost, “Oh yeah, Mary was at the Cross when Jesus told her “Woman behold your son” and told John “Son, behold your Mother.” and so if John was with the other disciples, he probably wouldn’t have left Mary alone at home by herself just a few weeks later.
Vague.
Which ones?
What else is there?
Do you HAVE any views?
This this speculation?
Seems like a safe road to travel, if you ask me.
Romans 15:3-4
3. For even Christ did not please himself but, as it is written: "The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me."
4. For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
You haughty Catholic perspective is glaring. Is the soul physical, like the body? Is the Word of God able to separate soul and spirit? I stand by what I oposted as something I asked if you had ever considered. You are a nasty little twister, grey. Cult apologists are like that. Are you an apologist?
You offered as evidence for the suggestion,
that Mary was in the Upper Room at Pentecost,
the quote from Simeon that a sword her soul shall pierce,
then jumped over to a totally different book,
written long after Pentecost,
by someone who had nothing to do with Jesus or Mary when Simeon was speaking,
saying that the Word of God was sharper than any two-edged sword,
piercing to the division of joints and marrow.
You used the coinciding of the word sword and pierce, to apply that verse to Mary, and picked up the word Spirit in the 2nd half of the verse, to conclude that meant Mary received the baptism in the Holy Spirit at Pentecost.
No arrogance on my part; that was the Evangelical equivalent of the type of random word association used by CRT people to blame whypepl for sunspots.
Read my posts upthread, Bozo.
Yes…. Start friendly and try to leave judgment to God.
It does come across as word search and cut & paste. This is an abhorrent use of the Word of God.
Completely reasonable that John would not leave Mary after Jesus said “Son, behold your Mother”.
Why is there such vitriole toward the Mother of Christ? I have never understood this, even as a child when neighbor Baptist kids would make fun of my family Catholic beliefs. Yes we were ‘fish-eaters’ every Friday. We pray the Rosary.
Live and let live. My Faith is a gift passed to me by my Memere… God rest her soul! Now I am Memere to two beautiful grand daughters… 5 year old is learning her prayers and her Faith formation inspires the adults around her. She has a prayer wheel on the dining table that reminds everyone of every moment of the day they can pray. It is a simple Faith in Jesus as our Savior…and an all powerful loving God.
So; do I correctly surmise that you have no feelings one way or the other about correct teachings and GOD will do the sorting out in the end?
I've read them but trying to follow the logic therein is similar to understanding the characters in "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia".
No one listens to my babbling opinions, so what else is there?
Why is there so much Catholic conjecture and imagining about her?
Jesus said "Without Me you can do nothing".
In this crisis which looms ahead of us, Our Lady has told us that we need Her help, Her intercession.
We must ask for Her help with the Rosary and the Scapular.
At Fatima, Our Lady told us very plainly that "Only I can help you". Today more than ever is this so true.
Pray the Rosary and sacrifice yourself for Our Lady.
The Rosary
by Father Stefano Manelli, S.T.D. http://fatima.org/crusader/cr38/cr38pg2.asp
'Tis a good place to start, as well as end.
Except for ELSIE and his damned snippets of Scripture.
You're evidently not tall enough for the ride, then.
Not my problem.
And why are you contaminating your mind with all the immorality of network TV?
The problem is that they are spam, not snippets.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.