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Romans 8:26 In the same way the Spirit also joins to help in our weakness, because we do not know what to pray for as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with unspoken groanings.
Get over it people....we don't bother about your prayers. Are we HURTING you by praying the Rosary? Really??? WOW! And we don't pray to Mary or any of the Saints to do anything EXCEPT ask Jesus to help us.......it's like our TEAM rooting for us!
1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus
John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Eph 2:13,18 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ... For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.
One of the most beautiful books written about the rosary is titled, Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy” and it was written by a Protestant.
Most Protestants do not say the "Our Father" Let alone repeat it over and over.
I have to wonder if he was ever really a protestant.
As a child I lived next door to a Catholic family of 12. If you were there when the Dr. came in after his evening rounds you were rounded up to say the rosary. Mind you, I only lived next door but I always stayed.
There are so many things that kept leading me to the Catholic church but this is one of them. I actually never heard the middle of the prayer because they stressed the 1st and last parts and the middle was a muddle. Hail Mary, full of grace, mumble, mumble, mumble, now and at the hour of our death.
One day 30 some yrs later, my co-worker was making copies of something that obviously wasn't work related. (It was ok, her parents owned the business) I have no idea why I asked what it was because it was none of my business and normally I wouldn't have. She said it was "How to say the Rosary" and she was copying it for her Catechism class. So I asked if I could look at it, and told her the above story and she gave me a copy. Little did I know....
After reading your post I now realize that, not only am I not catholic, I’m not protestant either.
I’m just happy to be a Bible-believing Christian. All this extra-biblical mumbo jumbo only seems to confuse people.
Objections to the Rosary arise from the experiences of the Reformation. Those who abandoned devotions to Mary and the Saints than ransacked Scripture for reasons to justify their choice. Recitation of the rosary is no more “babbling” than Pentacostals speaking in tonques. Likewise, the Geneva service is, like that of a Zwingli, a Christian service such as can be conducted only by laymen. Generally speaking, that would be song, prayers, Scripture, and preaching. Abandonment of the priesthood also means that the Lord’s Supper is a rare event, although “the breaking of the bread” seems not have been that rare at all. Luther saw this, which is why his service was more like a Low Mass in German. Even Calvin would have celebrated the Eucharist weekly, but went along with his colleagues since he wanted to point up the contention that the Priesthood was a kind of spiritual tyranny.
Most protestants don’t know that Luther prayed the rosary and was very devoted to the Blessed Mother.
First of all, praying to the dead is a sin. The dead are no less dead now than they were in OT times when that was made clear by the Word of God. But why not simply pray the way the bible says to pray and add nothing to that. Isn’t the bible sufficient?
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen
I read that about one million people (presumably Protestants) refused to vote for JFK because JFK was Catholic.
“for the most part Catholics and Protestants now acknowledge each other as fellow Christians, are often fairly relaxed about attending each other’s worship services”
I went to a Catholic Mass once. Everything seemed to be in a foreign language. I understood nothing and grew quite bored. I decided to check out a few Protestant services and finally settled in with a conservative Baptist Church.
All that being said, I think that Catholics are some of the nicest people I’ve ever met and I don’t believe they are any more or less bound for hell than anyone else.
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