Let me know when a new church council rescinds and repents of the "anathemas" proclaimed in the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Sessions of Trent.
Re 51 - Just be glad that they got over burning us at the stake and tearing us to pieces on the rack (among many other creative forms of torture and extermination) as they did for about a thousand years between when Emperor Constantine co-opted Christianity and around the late 17th century when European civilization had had about enough of it.
From my admittedly casual view of history, I see little practical distinction between Roman “Christianity” and Islam in terms of how they propagated the religion and treated dissidents (”Heritics” or “Infidels” respectively) for centuries. If anything, Muslims were sometimes more tolerant and humanitarian.
Thanks be to God we’ve come a long way since then; RCs may still damn us to hell, but at least they don’t violently expedite the trip like they used to - or Muslims are still wont to do whenever they get the chance.
Happy Peshach (Passover)by the way.
That was yesterday if you go by the Rabinical calender and tomorrow by the old Lunar Hebrew calender. Didn’t you celebrate it?
“Jesus” and His followers did.
Why not? it’s one of the Holy Festivals that our God actually commanded us (not just the Jews) to observe... unlike the Babylonian / Roman Pagan festivals in honor of false gods like Estrus (Easter) and “Christmas” (Saturnalia, worshiping the Sun god, whose “resurrection” was celebrated on the Winter Solstice).
Both the HRCC and “Protestantism” have retained these pagan corruptions to the original Faith ever since Constantine took it over and started slaughtering the Jews and anyone else who dared to resist or question his perversions.
Our common Ad*nai (Lord) Yeshua HaMasshiach (His original Hebrew Name and rank, BTW) was not, IIRC, a Roman; he was a Jew, as were all of his Apostles.
He was surely fluent in Latin, but probably spoke in Hebrew and Aramaic most of the time he was incarnate here on Earth.
So why isn’t the High and Holy Mass spoken in Hebrew?
Where do we get off rejecting and despising the ancient Hebraic roots of our Faith and the culture of our mutually confessed Savior, pray tell?
(Standing by for some interesting kickback on this one!)