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***You have offered to pray for my soul and I gratefully accepted. Please allow me to return the gift.

Don’t forget the beads and light a candle or two, please! I didn’t need any when I prayed for you... but my faith is in Jesus! ***

Proverbs 3:
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Trust in the LORD with all your heart, on your own intelligence rely not;
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In all your ways be mindful of him, and he will make straight your paths.
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Be not wise in your own eyes, fear the LORD and turn away from evil;
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This will mean health for your flesh and vigor for your bones.

Methinks that you trust in yourself and in your personal interpretation more than Jesus.
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The curse of the LORD is on the house of the wicked, but the dwelling of the just he blesses;
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When he is dealing with the arrogant, he is stern, but to the humble he shows kindness.

1 Timothy 6:
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Whoever teaches something different and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the religious teaching
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is conceited, understanding nothing, and has a morbid disposition for arguments and verbal disputes. From these come envy, rivalry, insults, evil suspicions,
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and mutual friction among people with corrupted minds, who are deprived of the truth, supposing religion to be a means of gain.

The Reformation gained much from misleading the people.

Romans 12:1
1 2 I urge you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, your spiritual worship.
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Do not conform yourselves to this age but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and pleasing and perfect.
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For by the grace given to me I tell everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than one ought to think, but to think soberly, each according to the measure of faith that God has apportioned.

Do you really think that you are above the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ and its 2000 years of faithful stewardship until He returns?

***Mark, continue in your piety and penance***

I will do my best, bolstered by the Grace of God and His Holy Spirit. Thank you for the gentle reminder.

*** it’s not going to help you in the end, no matter how much your priests promise!***

I don’t have any priests. I don’t have anything; the Lord Jesus Christ has me for which I am grateful. Remember that we Catholics don’t have a god made in our own image on the hall stand that we rub for luck when we walk by.

Jesus Created us. Not vice versa.

***Mine is also my brother! He wouldn’t, nay, couldn’t lie!***

Could you explain this a bit further?