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To: Arthur McGowan
I can get what your looking for by focusing on the One who died for my sins.

I'll tell you what, why don't you skip the middle man, or the substitutionary toy, and go right to the source.

Jesus after all, is the way, the truth, and the life.

Try as you may, NO ONE GETS TO THE FATHER ACCEPT THROUGH HIM (John 4:6)

Why create some new way to reach, or meditate upon Him when when all you need is HIM?

All you are doing is paying someone money for a trinket that you have been convinced by the Catholic church will get you closer to Him. That is why it was created.

The church needed a new way to get more money, so they invented the rosary, that at the time you could only get through them, and told you that you could use it to meditate with.

I can be naked, in the middle of the desert, with nothing but the air I breath, and I can be closer to Him then you ever could be with a necklace.

When I think of the rosary, I am reminded of the little tune that John Tetsel came up with when the church needed more money to pay for all its extravagant expenditures.

"As soon as a coin in the coffer rings / the soul from purgatory springs"

Look, if you need some object to feel like you are close to God, go ahead and do what you desire, but my faith is so strong that all I need to do is think on Him and I know that he is there listening, comforting, and blessing me.
14 posted on 02/03/2014 10:42:59 AM PST by OneVike (I'm just a Christian waiting to go home)
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To: OneVike
Glad your faith is so strong. With that pompous self righteous and uncharitable attitude toward fellow Christians, you're going to need it. I notice among the many virtues with which you flatter yourself, love is not mentioned.
19 posted on 02/03/2014 11:08:47 AM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: OneVike; Arthur McGowan

The centurion interceded for his sick servant. The Blessed Mother interceded for the newlyweds at Cana.

I would welcome all the intercession I can get.


20 posted on 02/03/2014 11:09:11 AM PST by ebb tide
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To: OneVike

The Church made/makes money from the Rosary??? LOL.

Your insulting, inaccurate jibes at the Rosary will not impress any Catholic who is familiar with what the Rosary is really about. It is all about key events in the life of Jesus.


49 posted on 02/03/2014 9:07:52 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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