The Bishop of Goa and his priests with the mummified body of a Catholic priest in Old Goa.
Posted on 08/03/2010 7:54:39 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
The online store is offering a baseball cap, a jacket and a range of T-shirts bearing Benedict XVI’s image and the motto of the historic trip – Heart speaks unto heart.
One of the shirts, costing £20, can be customised to include the name of the pilgrim’s local church.
Also on sale are a flag and an £8 electronic flashing candle, which can be waved during the open-air events just as music fans hold cigarette lighters aloft at festivals.
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The online store for the first-ever state papal visit to Britain, which coincides with London Fashion Week, is also selling a £30 blue bracelet featuring “bling” Swarovski crystals.
More traditional items include bookmarks, fridge magnets, keyrings, mugs, plates and a glossy programme.
For the particularly devout there are candles, rosary beads and crosses.
The Roman Catholic hierarchies of England and Wales, and Scotland, will be hoping that sales help cover their costs associated with the visit, likely to be more than £7million.
But there is also a brisk trade in unofficial merchandise, with a website called Catholics With Attitude selling hooded tops bearing slogans such as “Vatican All Stars”, “Team Benedict” and “Top of the Popes”.
The National Secular Society, which is planning public protests during the visit, is selling T-shirts bearing the message “Pope Nope”.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
What’s your source for that information?
If your basis for Catholic worship is what you “learn” from the hate sites it would seem that you frequent, I really have no interest in discussing this with you.
Not to mention the fact that we don’t know who is moderating the Religion forum, or what their religious affiliation is. We can make some assumptions, but that’s it.
You may also to add to your pantheon of ecclesiastical wisdom: Exodus 20:16.
BTW, I have an official Vatican bottle opener.
"...do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases?"
1 Corinthians 6:2
Why? I’m pretty sure that in the Bible, the Catholic Catechism, and every mass I’ve ever been too, no one has ever suggested even remotely the tibia is a source for anything other than standing up. No matter whose it was.
But hey, why let that stop you?
Veneration of the saints and their relics don’t work that way, but thanks for playing.
I wasn’t talking to you, Alex ... your direction is clear ...
What a beautiful image. Relics of those who die in sanctity are truly holy because on the last day, they will be glorified and restored to the victorious soul in heaven. This concrete reality is invisible to modern man, but Christians have venerated saintly relics since the martyrdom of the Apostles. Then as today, skeptics were dumbfounded at the holy practice.
For what information?
Mary Magdalene’s tibia?
Relic of St. Mary Magdalene to visit U.S.
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/relic_of_st._mary_magdalene_to_visit_u.s./
Get thee to a priest and make peace with God. Then you will no longer fear such things.
There are many, many, recorded incidences of miraculous cures being wrought by the touch of a relic.
RATZ: HOW ARE YOU SATAN!!
RATZ: ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US.
RATZ: HA HA HA HA....
(Yes, I know, I’m a bad, bad man.)
Welcome to FR.
It sure didn’t take you long to jump into a Religion thread with both feet.
Meet the Pope who swam the Tiber....
THE CADAVER SYNOD: STRANGEST TRIAL IN HISTORY
"Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?" (1 Cor. 6:3). If we cannot judge the actions of others by the Word of God, then we are going to be swept around by every doctrine that comes along.
"For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chose the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:
That no flesh should glory in his presence." (1 Cor. 1:26-29).
Seems that the ones who are NOT honored and glorified before others are the ones God chooses.
It does leave one speechless how relics are venerated.
It sure is too bad Catholics elevate material items to such a high level. It makes them look ridiculous.
It makes one wonder what Jesus has to do with their religion. Is He just some stamp of approval they add to justify the rest of what they set up to believe.
Matthew 8:22
But Jesus told him, “Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead.”
Luke 9:60
Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”
The satanically possessed have there own connection to death. They are drawn to Hell as Christians anticipate Heaven. It is the people in the middle who are squeamish about death.
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