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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.
Sounds like you are trying to convince yourself. One day we will welcome you into the faith.
Ain’t that a kicker!
Christ was loving when He called the pharisees
sons of satan, vipers, white washed tombs.
Do you consider those rude labels for them?
“People in ancient India prayed: ‘Lead me from the unreal to the real, from darkness to light, from death to immortality.’”
Please point out the pagan philosophy in the above.
Also note how it is followed by meditation on Scripture. Which shows that although it may have been a glimpse of truth the full Truth is revealed in Jesus Christ.
All truth has one purpose to prepare man to receive the Gospel.
Ditto for you, 10x’s!
Butt kicking them off the altar would have been justified.
That is indeed a scandal and when I first saw it I was disgusted.
And yet the Pope and other catholics on this thread seem to think it's fine and dandy for the Pope to recite a Hindu prayer while celebrating Good Friday.....and they will justify it as well.
Just as the Popes advisors are not informing him of culture differences in how the Hindus saw his prayer.... as being an acknowledgement their faith and practices were acceptable..... so to the catholics on this thread who approved do not understand this act from the perspective of the Hindus, rather they see it only from their own religion....which in this case the Pope was absolutely wrong to claim He represents Christ and then include this Hindu prayer in the celebartation.
Just plain a bad idea...and once again lets the "pagan" practices back into the church as they did centuries ago.
Goodness!
Brace yourself. Please sit down.
I agree with you.
THX THX for your kind words and all you do hereon.
I’m going to bed soon....but I have been doing my homeowrk on this Hindu/Catholic merge. There are photos throughout the net of Bishops “venerating” Hinduism. It digusts me no end Quix. The idols they choose to worship, in the Hindu religion are straight frome....! and are paganist in every way.
Ya know I wouldn’t give a crap what the catholic pope does were it not for that fact he misleads and entraps people into believing something he is most definately not...then further is bringing all these other religions inot what they “claim” is THE Official church of Christianity.
The more you look and read and study and see the worse it gets....it really has not come much further along then centuries ago...just put a tighter facade around it.
I totally agree.
Well put.
Thx.
Heading to bed myself shortly.
Scenes from the Hindu “Mass”
Above: Triple Arati
Underneath: The “Our Father”
Reminds me when Moses was with God on Mt Sinai and underneath they were worshiping the golden calf. ‘Nothing new under the sun’.
He did not recite a Hindu prayer he stated what they used to pray. There is a difference. If I say the Jews pray “Hear O’ Israel The Lord Our God Is One” does that mean I am now no longer Christian and that I reject the Triune God?
The inability of the anti Catholics in this thread to follow logic and see the whole meditation in context should no longer surprise me.
The quote from the Hindu readings you will see that they offer a very good place to tell someone just WHO it is that leads us to light and most importantly who leads us into immortality. As I wrote before any truths found in other faiths are there so the full Truth will be recognized when it comes among them.
This was a mediation which is not a worship service but just what it says meditations on Jesus’ deaht on the cross.
That death liberates us.
Look at the verses in context. This is from the remarks on the Hindu verses. “”When death strikes near, another world draws close. We then shed our illusions and have a grasp of the deeper reality. People in ancient India prayed: “Lead me from the unreal to the real, from darkness to light, from death to immortality”
Now he follows with this remark (not necessarily the Pope since I don’t know who was giving the meditations)
“And this message itself is Jesus Christ, who is “the power of God and the wisdom of God”.[2] It says that the reality is Christ [3] and that our ultimate destiny is to be with him. [4”
The deeper reality which the Hindus longed for and the revelation they prayed for our found in the person of Jesus Christ. That being with Him is the answer to that Hindu prayer. For only He can do what it asks.
On Hinduized Catholics. It is a shame and a disgrace and the Saints in heaven must weep in horror to see such desecration. It is not a new problem. I would love to see some detention slips passed out.
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