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To: Canticle_of_Deborah
I am not a God hater, far from it. I am a devout Christian a believer in Jesus Christ my Lord and Savior. I just do not feel the need to see or hold any body parts of a dead human being. I find this practice to be strange and objectionable but if you like it, so be it.
15 posted on 09/15/2006 12:31:13 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: Ditter
Roman Catholics believe that true blessings can come from venerating the Saints and their relics. Relics are contained in every parish church altar where we worship every Sunday and we pray to these martyrs and saints during Mass. My St. Andrew Missal states:

"The Holy Church encloses relics of the Saints in the altar because from the time of the Catacombs she used to offer the divine Martyr of Golgotha as close as possible to the remains of those who were martyred for Him. In the unbloody Sacrifice of the Mass, all Christians, as members of His Mystical Body, are offered up by Christ and with His physical body to the Holy Trinity. Moreover, they have to continue His Bloody Sacrifice: Jesus has finished suffering in His flesh; but His mystical members in their turn should offer their sufferings to God in union with those of Christ."

You may not understand, nor necessarily appreciate these practices and beliefs, but do recognize why we do and why the Roman Church has practiced these rites for tens of centuries...

18 posted on 09/15/2006 1:17:16 PM PDT by vox_freedom (Matthew 5:37 But let your speech be yea, yea: no, no)
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To: Ditter
7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency may be of the power of God, and not of us. 8 In all things we suffer tribulation, but are not distressed; we are straitened, but are not destitute; 9 We suffer persecution, but are not forsaken; we are cast down, but we perish not: 10 Always bearing about in our body the mortification of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our bodies. 11 For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake; that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our mortal flesh. 12 So then death worketh in us, but life in you.

(2nd Cor. 4)


19 posted on 09/15/2006 1:22:34 PM PDT by annalex
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To: Ditter

Do you find this strange, too?

Acts, Chapter 19:
11 ¶ And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul:
12 so that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them.

http://www.bartleby.com/108/44/19.html


God manifests His power in many ways, and uses material things, including the bodies of His saints, to show forth His Glory and Majesty.


20 posted on 09/15/2006 1:33:38 PM PDT by Deo volente
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To: Ditter

I'm sure God will be tickled pink to hear you find His miracles objectionable. Right on par for the doctrines of man, "I determine truth" group.


24 posted on 09/15/2006 2:11:39 PM PDT by Canticle_of_Deborah
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