Pope includes Hindu verses in prayers on Good Friday

merinews ^ | Apr 14, 2009

[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.

[Cronos]

do stop repeating the lie about re-c. The sacrifice of Mass is the same ONE-TIME sacrifice of Calvary that is of all time.

The sacrifice is ONE-TIME, completed, done

Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is not good -- are you so lacking in grace that you repeatedly deny Christ?

• Heb 13:15; ⇒ Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise—the fruit of lips that openly profess his name.
• 1 Pet 25; ⇒ but the word of the Lord endures forever And this is the word that was preached to you
• Ps 116:13, ⇒ I will lift up the cup of salvation and call on the name of the LORD.
• Ps 116:17; ⇒ I will sacrifice a thank offering to you and call on the name of the LORD.
• Mal 1:11 My name will be great among the nations, from where the sun rises to where it sets. In every place incense and pure offerings will be brought to me, because my name will be great among the nations,” says the LORD Almighty.
  
  since it completes and surpasses all the sacrifices of the Old Covenant.
  From the beginning the Church has been faithful to the Lord's command. of the Church of Jerusalem it is written:

  They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.... Day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they partook of food with glad and generous heart
  
  Acts 2:42-46

[Cronos]

So you don’t beleive that Christ is omnipresent? You deny Christ that ability? Why do you persist in denying Him, denying His words, everything?

[Cronos]

how much do you hate Christ? It’s incredible the lengths people will go to lie to justify their hatred of Christ and their denial of Christ’s words.

[Cronos]

And what makes it even funnier is when deniers of Christ's words just publish snippets of anti-Catholicism that they found on the internet.

1. Origen -- you've never actually read the Commentary on Matthew, have you? This very chapter says:Firstly, this is a commentary on Matthew 14 --> you DO know there are 4 Gospels, right? and the one I was referring to was John?

[Cronos]

Origen -- you've never actually read the Commentary on Matthew, have you? This very chapter says

• he that doubts is condemned if he eat, because he eats not of faith, Romans 14:23 and as nothing is pure to him who is defiled and unbelieving, not in itself, but because of his defilement and unbelief, so that which is sanctified through the word of God and prayer does not, in its own nature, sanctify him who uses it, for, if this were so, it would sanctify even him who eats unworthily of the bread of the Lord, and no one on account of this food would become weak or sickly or asleep for something of this kind Paul represented in saying, For this cause many among you are weak and sickly and not a few sleep. 1 Corinthians 11:30
• t is not the material of the bread but the word which is said over it which is of advantage to him who eats it not unworthily of the Lord.

[Cronos]

And from Origen's Homilies on Exodus 13:3:

"I wish to admonish you with examples from your religion. You are accustomed to take part in the divine mysteries, so you know how, when you have received the Body of the Lord, you reverently exercise every care lest a particle of it fall and lest anything of the consecrated gift perish. You account yourselves guilty, and rightly do you so believe, if any of it be lost through negligence"

[Joya]

Rude?

Uh, Quix has pointed out again and again the ways that roman catholics violate Scripture by elevating Jesus’ mom above her due place and the best you can do is tell him to not be rude?

I notice there were NO REPLIES to his response to your post here. I will ping you to it in case you missed it.

[Cronos]

Then Origen's Homilies on Numbers 7:2 "Formerly there was baptism in an obscure way . . . now, however, in full view, there is regeneration in water and in the Holy Spirit. Formerly, in an obscure way, there was manna for food; now, however, in full view, there is the true food, the flesh of the Word of God, as he himself says: ‘My flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink’

[Joya]

Post 267 was Quix reply to your don’t be rude admonishment.

NO REPLIES yet, wanted to be sure you saw it so you will reply.

[Cronos]

Then Tertullian The Resurrection of the Dead: "[T]here is not a soul that can at all procure salvation, except it believe whilst it is in the flesh, so true is it that the flesh is the very condition on which salvation hinges. And since the soul is, in consequence of its salvation, chosen to the service of God, it is the flesh which actually renders it capable of such service. The flesh, indeed, is washed [in baptism], in order that the soul may be cleansed . . . the flesh is shadowed with the imposition of hands [in confirmation], that the soul also may be illuminated by the Spirit; the flesh feeds [in the Eucharist] on the body and blood of Christ, that the soul likewise may be filled with God"

[Cronos]

Then Tertullian On prayer 6: " For Christ is our Bread; because Christ is Life, and bread is life. I am, says He, the Bread of Life; John 6:35 and, a little above, The Bread is the Word of the living God, who came down from the heavens. John 6:33 Then we find, too, that His body is reckoned in bread: This is my body. Matthew 26:26 And so, in petitioning for daily bread, we ask for perpetuity in Christ, and indivisibility from His body. But, because that word is admissible in a carnal sense too, it cannot be so used without the religious remembrance withal of spiritual Discipline; for (the Lord) commands that bread be prayed for, which is the only food necessary for believers;

[Cronos]

Then Tertullian Deres CArnis/i> viii: "The flesh is washed, in order that the soul may be cleansed; the flesh is anointed, that the soul may be consecrated; the flesh is signed [with the cross], that the soul, too, may be fortified; the flesh is shadowed with the imposition of hands, that the soul also may be illuminated by the Spirit; the flesh feeds on the body and blood of Christ, that the soul likewise may have its fill of God

[Cronos]

Then Deres CArnis viii: "The flesh is washed, in order that the soul may be cleansed; the flesh is anointed, that the soul may be consecrated; the flesh is signed [with the cross], that the soul, too, may be fortified; the flesh is shadowed with the imposition of hands, that the soul also may be illuminated by the Spirit; the flesh feeds on the body and blood of Christ, that the soul likewise may have its fill of God

[Cronos]

Then Apostolical Constitutions, 7.25 Very sneaky -- the place you copied this from (an anti-Catholic website no doubt) doesn't tell you the rest which is

Let no one eat of these things that is not initiated; but those only who have been baptized into the death of the Lord. But if any one that is not initiated conceal himself, and partake of the same, he eats eternal damnation; because, being not of the faith of Christ, he has partaken of such things as it is not lawful for him to partake of, to his own punishment.

Eternal damnation for eating just a symbol? How stupid can the site-makers that you copied from get? Now, eternal damnation is for wrongfully eating the very body and blood of Christ.

[Cronos]

Then Augustine:

Explanations of the Psalms

"Christ was carried in his own hands when, referring to his own body, he said, ‘This is my body’ [Matt. 26:26]. For he carried that body in his hands"

and Sermons 227

"I promised you [new Christians], who have now been baptized, a sermon in which I would explain the sacrament of the Lord’s table. . . . That bread that you see on the altar, having been sanctified by the word of God, is the body of Christ. That chalice, or rather, what is in that chalice, having been sanctified by the word of God, is the blood of Christ"

and from the same page 272

"What you see is the bread and the chalice; that is what your own eyes report to you. But what your faith obliges you to accept is that the bread is the body of Christ and the chalice is the blood of Christ. This has been said very briefly, which may perhaps be sufficient for faith; yet faith does not desire instruction"

and from Explanation of the Psalmsn 99

"He took flesh from the flesh of Mary . . . and gave us the same flesh to be eaten unto salvation. . . . We do sin by not adoring"

[Cronos]

Is your master the king of lies happy? No one on this thread “defended the blending...”

[Cronos]

on the contrary, caww, when I read and see what happens outside orthodoxy, I know that this is not God’s work. Hence I flew to God’s safety net that is orthodoxy.

[Quix]

LOL.

THX.

[smvoice]

"He took flesh from the flesh of Mary . . . and gave us the same flesh to be eaten unto salvation. . . . We do sin by not adoring"

This needs a little clarification.

The flesh of Mary is part of Christ and therefore part of salvation? Mary's flesh is in the Eucharist? And "by not adoring" who? Jesus? Mary?

It sounds like this means Mary is adored and deservedly so, because her flesh is part of Christ's flesh, therefore she is part of the eucharist, and she is part of salvation. Am I getting this right?