Posted on 12/22/2007 7:56:40 PM PST by melt
Roman Catholics have overtaken Anglicans as the country's dominant religious group. More people attend Mass every Sunday than worship with the Church of England, figures seen by The Sunday Telegraph show.
Blair becomes Catholic in private ceremony The changing face of British Christianity Your view: What can the Church of England do to win back worshippers? This means that the established Church has lost its place as the nation's most popular Christian denomination after more than four centuries of unrivalled influence following the Reformation.
Last night, leading figures gave warning that the Church of England could become a minority faith and that the findings should act as a wake-up call.
The statistics show that attendance at Anglican Sunday services has dropped by 20 per cent since 2000. A survey of 37,000 churches, to be published in the new year, shows the number of people going to Sunday Mass in England last year averaged 861,000, compared with 852,000 Anglicans worshipping.
The rise of Catholicism has been bolstered by an influx of immigrants from eastern Europe and Africa, who have packed the pews of Catholic parishes that had previously been dwindling.
It is part of the changing face of churchgoing across Britain in the 21st century which has also seen a boom in the growth of Pentecostal churches, which have surpassed the Methodist Church as the country's third largest Christian denomination.
Worshipping habits have changed dramatically with a significant rise in attendance at mid-week services and at special occasions - the Church of England expects three million people to go to a parish church over Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
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To whom do you pray?
Do you pray to the saints?
What does the Bible say about offering prayers to anyone other than God (and by default, Jesus)?
Ecclesiastes 9:5 “For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even the memory of them is forgotten.”
And the liturgical calander covered the same scriptures each year. I was amazed of what I learned when I went to the source.
Our own Saint Patrick once chased all the serpents from the British Isles and he can do so once again now can’t he, lads?
Hallelujah!
I do oppose many (as I see it) flawed Catholic doctrines. I don’t however, hate Catholics.
I see this as actually a rejection of liberalism. The Anglican Church in England is way, way off the reservation. The Catholics look like the Bible believers next to them!
The truth is what I said was. It is a societal problem.
Bless us all God and give each of us the clarity to fight evil instead of one another. Guide us to offer love and understanding to our fellow Christian brothers and sisters and help us to love one another over what we have in common and not make enemies and walls over what we are divided over. In Jesus' name. Amen. It has been told that prayers penetrate heaven and are written as script across its sky. God hears our prayers and answers them.
Sounds like you soul is doing just fine. God bless.
By the way, I have an offender who lives behind my property. He’s a Protestant. Like I said, it’s societal.
Thank you for your kindness.
If I never meet you on earth I look forward to greeting you before His throne.
;-)
God save Prince Foppy...if the muslims get him first.
Well, we must define pray here. If you ask your friends to pray for you, are you in fact praying to them?
"Ecclesiastes 9:5 “For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even the memory of them is forgotten."
I would simply point out that God is the God of the living, not the dead. Those who leave this world in the faith do not die, as Christ promised, but find life everlasting. You may think that believers find no further reward, and are just dead, but the Church does not. We follow the teachings of the Apostles and of Christ and pray for one another, and ask for prayers from fellow believers. This includes those who being absent from the body are "present with the Lord" as St. Paul indicated. The "dead" have nothing to do with it.
ping!
Which apostate church do the Brits prefer?
(I guess I missed the other two chances.)
“No pork chops, frankfurters, pork loins, or pork roasts.”
Muslims don’t eat pork for the same reasons that orthodox Jews (and even some Christians!) don’t eat pork. Read Leviticus 11:4-8. http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus+11:4-8
Mary of Scotland vindicated.
Good one!
“... the liturgical calendar covered the same scriptures every year.”
That seems strange to me. I thought the missal has a three-year cycle, in which the whole Bible is covered.
Going Catholic could be the best thing that’s happened to Britain, as the Church of England has become a hollow shell of itself. You’ve got their archbishop saying things like “you don’t have to believe in the virgin birth”. A hollow church because it has hollowed out its beliefs.
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