[Salvation]

One of the reasons that "Amazing Grace" will not be sung at anything Catholic that I have anything to do with.

Read the words -- they support that we are saved by grace ALONE. Not ture with Catholic teaching.

[Alex Murphy]

One of the reasons that "Amazing Grace" will not be sung at anything Catholic that I have anything to do with. Read the words -- they support that we are saved by grace ALONE. Not ture with Catholic teaching.

It's your loss.

[Bainbridge]

That is true; and I was amused to be at a Roman Catholic mass and hear the parishioners singing the Reformation Battle Hymn, "A Mighty Fortress is our God".
I find it rather disturbing that a man who is generally thought of as a prominent scholar has only just realized that "words mean things", as they say.

[Salvation]

**Not ture with Catholic teaching.**

Oops -- Not true with Catholic teaching.

[bonfire]

I am Protestant and even I can't stand "Amazing Grace". Overdone, difficult for congregations to sing, and it drones on and on.

[Quix]

I'm fairly well convinced that AMAZING GRACE will be sung throughout eternity in all the Heavenly and other realms.

[Dajjal]

One of the reasons that "Amazing Grace" will not be sung at anything Catholic that I have anything to do with.
Read the words -- they support that we are saved by grace ALONE. Not true with Catholic teaching.
23 posted on 08/29/2006 by Salvation

That is true; and I was amused to be at a Roman Catholic mass and hear the parishioners singing the Reformation Battle Hymn, "A Mighty Fortress is our God".
29 posted on 08/29/2006 by Bainbridge

Exactly so! "Amazing Grace is based on the heresy that by His Grace, Christ "covers" our sinful hearts and hides them from the eyes of the Father. Catholic teaching is that Christ's grace cleanses our hearts and sanctifies them from sin and its effects.

"A Mighty Fortress" is one of Luther's vile anti-Papist screeds.

No one's mentioned the hippyish "Let There Be Peace On Earth" yet. Compare to Matthew 10:34-36.

[steve8714]

Amazing Grace fits perfectly the tune of "Gilligan's Island. It has its own excellent melody, though.

[Wonder Warthog]

"Read the words -- they support that we are saved by grace ALONE. Not ture with Catholic teaching."

All right, I've read'em, and I don't see anything about "grace ALONE" in the lyrics. And Catholic teaching IS that we are saved by grace, with works themselves being gifts of grace.

[chesley]

Not to pick a fight, but that is the exact reason that I love "Amazing Grace". But then I'm not Catholic.