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Pope includes Hindu verses in prayers on Good Friday
merinews ^ | Apr 14, 2009

Posted on 02/08/2011 7:12:21 AM PST by Gamecock

HINDUS HAVE applauded Pope Benedict for including verse from ancient Hindu scripture Upanishads in the Good Friday Meditations and Prayers led by him at Roman Colosseum.

Acclaimed Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that it was a remarkable gesture from Pope and invited him to study more ancient Hindu scriptures, which were very rich in philosophical thought. He or other Hindu scholars would gladly provide the help and resources in this regard, if asked, Zed added.

Zed, who is president of Universal Society of Hinduism, also commended His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI for inclusion of a verse from India’s Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali and reference to peace icon Mahatma Gandhi in these prayers.

This year’s 'Way of the Cross at the Colesseum' Meditations and Prayers on Good Friday, led by Pope, included well-known verse from Brahadaranyakopanishad (“Lead me from the unreal to the real, from darkness to light, from death to immortality”), line from Tagore’s Gitanjali (“Give me the strength to make my love fruitful in service”) and reference to Mahatma Gandhi.

Rajan Zed stressed that all religions should work together for a just and peaceful world. Dialogue would bring us mutual enrichment, he added.

Pope Benedict heads the Roman Catholic Church, which is the largest of the Christian denominations. Hinduism, oldest and third largest religion of the world, has about one billion adherents and moksha (liberation) is its ultimate goal.


TOPICS: Catholic; General Discusssion
KEYWORDS: catholicbashing; hindu
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"His Holiness' Nuncio to the United States, Archbishop Pietro Sambi, lights a traditional Hindu devotional lamp before the statues of Hindu deities."


1 posted on 02/08/2011 7:12:26 AM PST by Gamecock
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To: Cronos

Soooo, did you pray this Hindu verse?
Did your local house of worship offer this pagan prayer up?


2 posted on 02/08/2011 7:15:19 AM PST by Gamecock (The resurrection of Jesus Christ is both historically credible and existentially satisfying. T.K.)
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To: Gamecock

Oh my gosh.

Not much longer to wait before the little horn proclaims his one world religion.

Pray to not be deceived.


3 posted on 02/08/2011 7:15:25 AM PST by Christian Engineer Mass (25ish Cambridge, MA grad student. Any potential conservative Christian FReepmail-FRiends out there?)
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To: Gamecock

I cannot imagine that the Pope has not already read and studied Hindru scriptures. He’s an educated man after all.


4 posted on 02/08/2011 7:16:30 AM PST by squarebarb
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To: squarebarb

Hindru=Hindu.


5 posted on 02/08/2011 7:17:25 AM PST by squarebarb
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To: Gamecock

Woo Hoo! It won’t be long now before we’ll be lifted outta’ here!


6 posted on 02/08/2011 7:17:38 AM PST by Terry Mross (We need a SECOND party.)
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To: Gamecock

Maybe Moses should have participated in the golden calf festivities and stopped being so judgmental...

/s


7 posted on 02/08/2011 7:18:15 AM PST by icwhatudo ("laws requiring compulsory abortion could be sustained under the constitution"-Obama official)
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To: Quix; Joya
What-no-Koran-handy? ping.


Today is a good day to die.
I didn't say for whom.

8 posted on 02/08/2011 7:18:24 AM PST by The Comedian (Muslim Brotherhood = A.N.S.W.E.R = Soros = Obama)
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To: Gamecock

Wow, this is disturbing.


9 posted on 02/08/2011 7:18:30 AM PST by Reagan69 (I went to a shooting-victims' memorial service and all I got was a lousy T-shirt !)
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To: Gamecock
HINDUS HAVE applauded Pope Benedict for including verse from ancient Hindu scripture Upanishads in the Good Friday Meditations and Prayers led by him at Roman Colosseum.

What???? Why in the %*## did the Pope do that?

10 posted on 02/08/2011 7:18:46 AM PST by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: Gamecock

Nothing to see here. Please keep the line moving. Remove all watches and rings when you place your hand in the machine to be marked.


11 posted on 02/08/2011 7:19:13 AM PST by PetroniusMaximus
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To: squarebarb

"Well, isn't that special."

12 posted on 02/08/2011 7:20:15 AM PST by nomodem
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To: Gamecock

On Good Friday? I guess any god will do when striving to please man and not God


13 posted on 02/08/2011 7:22:11 AM PST by RnMomof7
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To: Gamecock

I’m not Catholic; but I see nothing wrong with adding those lines in an address. There are several world religions that have admirable traits, thoughts and philosophies that can help us gain a better understanding of what we are to be.

Honestly, there is only 1 world-wide religion that I can think of that has nothing worthwhile to contribute to mankind - and it isn’t Satanism.... ok, ... make that 1 World-wide religion and one small cult.


14 posted on 02/08/2011 7:23:45 AM PST by Hodar (Who needs laws .... when this "feels" so right?)
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To: Gamecock
You left off the "Christian Fundamentalist Caucus" tag. You might need a "Snakehandlers" one, too.

Mods!

15 posted on 02/08/2011 7:26:39 AM PST by the invisib1e hand (talk to the hand)
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To: Christian Engineer Mass

Hey now... it’s all good, so long as the Pope isn’t in, ‘the zone of infallability,’ it doesn’t count anyway, right?


16 posted on 02/08/2011 7:29:26 AM PST by AD from SpringBay (We deserve the government we allow.)
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To: Gamecock

This may very well be true but I don’t remember hearing about this at the time (almost a year ago) and given that the service commemorates martyrs of the catholic faith who perished at the hands of pagans - I would be very surprised if it were.

But if it is true I agree that it is disturbing given the context. Nevertheless a pope doing something foolish like this ( or kissing the koran ) affects not at all the truth of Catholicism.


17 posted on 02/08/2011 7:34:55 AM PST by jtal
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To: Gamecock

The quote that was used is: “Lead me from the unreal to the real, from darkness to light, from death to immortality.”

Nothing in that specific line that conflicts with Christianity.


18 posted on 02/08/2011 7:35:12 AM PST by Juana la Loca
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To: Gamecock
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19 posted on 02/08/2011 7:35:34 AM PST by Alex Murphy ("Posting news feeds, making eyes bleed, he's hated on seven continents")
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To: jtal

correction - almost two years ago.


20 posted on 02/08/2011 7:36:55 AM PST by jtal
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