Posted on 12/25/2024 5:52:14 PM PST by blueplum
The Vatican is set to open five sacred portals starting on Christmas Eve for the first time in 25 years.
The opening of the Holy Doors marks the beginning of the 2025 Jubilee which is a year of forgiveness, reconciliation and renewed focus on the spiritual life....
At the start of Christmas Eve Mass, Pope Francis will push open the Holy Door in St Peter’s Basilica, which will stay open throughout the year to allow the estimated 32 million pilgrims projected to visit Rome to pass through....
The process of opening the four basilica doors involves removing the brick wall that covers each door from the inside of the basilica, followed by the Pope pushing the doors open to signal the beginning of the Holy Year.
When Jubilee finishes on January 6, 2026, the Pope will be the last person to walk through each of the four doors before closing them, which will then be bricked up and sealed....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I’m praying for you.
The Letter of Saint Athanasius that he cited Sirach 15:9 is His Letter to Marcellinus not the Letter 39.
Just wanted to clarify that
I already dealt with the various types of sin in post 51 [Original, Unforgivable, Mortal and Venial].
So I will refer that post on that particular issue you raised.
Just the Catholics, then?
Please explain how sola scriptura is a “totally made-up heresy.”
Uh, no. Only if you count communist genocide against religion.
COMMUNISM AT "PEACE": An Outline of Non-Wartime Communist Atrocities
I have holy drawers
Or - my kids keep telling me to get my life stories down in writing. The first time they mentioned it was probably 10 years ago. Heh - I still have time.....
Amen. Christ died for our sins. All of them.
Yes, his kingdom is open to those who believe in Him. There are no “works” to get into heaven other than that heartfelt faith in Him.
Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God (Romans 10:17).
Best not to use “the church” like a club (in both meanings of the word), cutie pie.
Albion Wilde;
I believe God is One God, in 3 Divine Persons (Father, Son and Holy Spirit]. Christ is the 2nd Person of the Holy Trinity and as a Divine Person has both a Divine Nature and human nature [Hypostatic Union]. Christ founded a Church, not Churches, and the Church is His Body [He is not 2 Persons, 1 Divine Person] and His Church is His Bride [Christ is not a Polygamous].
Thus, as the Nicene Creed says, I believe in One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. Period end of discussion. Now, as a Catholic I fully recognize that those other Apostolic Churches, the Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and Assyrian Church of the East are valid Churches. They all have valid Bishops and valid Sacraments, hence those while n schism from us Catholics since 1054, 451, and 431 AD, nevertheless are in terms of Doctrine 99% in line with us.
While you protestants, those that have valid Trinitarian baptisms are indeed Christian, thus have valid sacramental baptism and I will concede have valid sacramental marriages since the ministers of the sacrament of marriage are the man and woman who make the sacred exchange of vows before God. So 2 sacraments. Protestants are much further from the true Apostolic faith while still have some connection to the Church. But protestant communities are not Churches, they are communities of baptized Christians.
So I don’t make judgments on protestants and their souls, God meets those where they are at and the sins of Formal heresy that the likes of Luther, Zwingli, Calvin, Crammer and Cromwell can’t be applied to modern protestants [they were Formal heretics].
Thus God’s grace for those protestants who are truly invincibly ignorant through no fault of their own can and will be saved, but not through the protestant faith.
So I have all the communion of saints in heaven to ask to pray for me, and fellow Catholics and we Catholics often on theological forums on Youtube will often pray for our Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and Assyrian Church of the East brothers and sisters, who are much closer to us than you protestants [who are like split peas]
But I wish you well none the less.
What is the RCC's excuse for not deposing the heretic Francis?
Sacred portals? What will they invent next? I saw something about a Precious Specimen here the other day. 😄
Albion Wilde:
Because he is not a Formal heretic in the strict sense. What Dogma has publicly rejected that Canon Law. So I will take your question as an honest question. Canon 751 is clear on what it takes to be a formal heretic. Now, has the pope made errors in some of his public speeches, yes, has he done some things in his Authoritative Magisterium [Canon 752] that I Disagree with? Yes, I agreed with Pope Benedict XVI on his Decree on celebrating the older form of the Roman Rite [so called Tridentine Mass/Liturgy] “Summorum Pontificum”. Pope Francis issued Traditione Custodes, well within his authority, but I don’t agree with that approach.
But that does not make him a heretic.
Now you raised a question, if a Pope were to teach something in his Magisterium as heretical, and not recant before death. Who decides if a Pope was heretical. Ultimately only a future Pope can decide that this side of heaven. The first See [Rome] is judged by no other Church. So a future Pope would have to call a Council and review all the writings of a previous Pope and then decide to censure a previous Pope.
The closest 2 examples of Popes being censured were Pope Honorius and Pope John XXII. But I will not go into those 2 issues here. Neither was condemned formal heretics, but Pope Honorius failed in his role expected as Bishop of Rome, successor of Saint Peter and allowed the Monothelite heresy to spread without squashing it. Pope John XXII taught erroneously on the Beatific Vision and was told some 5 times by Theologians, his own council of Cardinals and theological advisors. He recanted before he died and next Pope Defined Dogmatically precisely what the Beatific Vision is and what is to be believed.
I'll sleep easier knowing that. And I wish you good fortune as you demonstrate your vast knowledge before the Lord, when your time comes. Matthew 12:34-37.
And yet people who are just hell bent on feeling the need to do SOMETHING to attain God’s favor, go and claim that believing God and trusting Him is a work.
Yet Abraham was commended for simply taking God at His word.
He believed God’s promise and that was counted to him as righteousness.
Well you asked me a question did you not? So I gave you an answer. If you don’t ask me any questions, then I can assure you that I will not give you any answers.
Look at it this way, whatever protestant group you belong to, did I ask you about what it is your particular branch of Protestantism hold to? It is a rhetorical question, NO.
That is the one thing about all you protestants here. We Catholics are “Catholic” so all you all define yourselves in this discussions as not Catholic, but none of you ever clearly say I go to this particular protestant ecclesial community among the thousands available.
Where we will continue to disagree will be on those books of the OT.
I'll stick with the OT canon Jesus defined.
In my seminary class we did read Maccabees which I thought was an interesting read.
The writing in question I believe.
https://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf204.xxv.iii.iii.xxv.html
Has not Christ already done this in Colossians 2:13-14?
I gather you are a Free grace protestant, yes or no?
No.
Just a Christian...a follower of Christ.
ok.
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