Pope celebrates Ramadan with call for mutual respect between Muslims and Christians

You are under a warped understanding that I ascribe any credence to any of those you mentioned.... sun god worship is what it is... this worlds calendar has everybody duped... you are not alone and your church helped spread it- even to those protestants who were trying to build on a foundation of sinking sand.... you are however delusional to think your Sunday type worship is better than joel osteen or rev wright or any of those others you mentioned.. its all vain and worthless when His Sacred calendar and His Sabbath is revealed.... I would suggest exactly what Rev 18 say- come.out of her my people... you thinking your church is pure only need to see the abuse of little boys as proof one of demonic practices... and these other churches , especially mega church clubs have other iniquity that dogs them too but no better than abusing little kids... better to see it and flee than sit and celebrate it.... or defend it like you seem so incline to do...

Good luck fleeing babylon..

Again, buried in this stupid “born again” stuff and “rapture” and all the other nonsense spawned by the curse of the Reformation, the splinters from the bark of St. Peter are hard to re-attach. Sins of the mankind are everywhere. But this is not to say that because Judas betrayed Christ, it soiled the mission of Peter, the other apostles, their successors and disciples down to the current successor to St.Peter. Just so that you notice the Church also have its saints and martyrs, and those who recieved the stigmata like St. Padre Pio. The Church also through the ages has had the greatest number of converts, Communists included, Buddhists, Islamacists, Anglicans, Lutherans, Jews, and an unending stellar cast of theologians, scholars, painters, scientists, astronomers, poets, essayists, sculptors, composers, and artists and like Pasteur, a long line of Nobel Laureates as well.

The rich and varied tradition of the Church is one that is directly handed down from Christ to Peter to his successors. The Church stands as the sole repository of truth. At the center of Church life is Christ Himself in the Eucharist and the Mass.

All this other stuff from the Billy Grahams, Joel Osteens, Jimmy Swaggarts, Bishop TD Jakes, Jerry Falwells, Benny Hines, Robert Schullers, are no better off than the lone idiots who superficially shout out passages from the Bible. They are most six degrees apart from the Jeremiah Wrights and Al Sharptons and Jesse Jacksons of this world. These guys don’t have either the intellectual acumen or the holiness of a St. Thomas of Aquinas or St. Augustine (whose works are still studied in all the major universities of this world). They ought to be neither seen nor heard within a 1000 miles of these saints.

And then out in the vast blind wilderness, we have a “delchiante” quoting Revelation. Good grief!

Steel, good luck fleeing your pagan sun god religion.... It will destroy your soul.... you are worshipping your church.... you are worshipping your idols... you are destroying your own soul.... you don’t seem to like the old covenant nor the new covenant..I wont quote His word to you because you seem to be hostile like swine to pearls.... or dogs to what is holy.... but your catechism is your bible and your pope is your god and your history of your church is most important to you to prove your awesomeness.. you are too prideful in your churchianity... and your broad way with easter and christmas and all your other man made pagan traditions will end in ruin for you...

Steel, you keep throwing names out there like you will stumble on one that will trigger a defense from me.... I don’t buy paganized occult organized religion cults that have wolves in sheeps clothing....I don’t buy six figure salaried preachers or popes dressed up in occultism garb... I don’t buy what other people say The Word says- I read it for myself... I study events in the bible and come to the conclusion that every Christian denomination has added, subtracted or follow traditions not found in the Scriptures...I see a paganized savior so removed from His Jewish roots that there are some who think His real name is Jesus... I see this country as not a nation the messiah would want to take ownership of.. with this country being the biggest merchandiser of alcohol, drugs, movies, violence, abortion, pornography, sports ( I am leaving lots out like abuse, rape, music, murder, crime, etc)
I know exactly who I am, what I believe, who I believe in and what kind of country I live I ... no priest, pope pastor or minister had to tell me or teach me who I believe in... no indoctrination into any ‘faith’ where I felt trapped to conform or believe in what they were preaching... I am free and feel sorry for you being trapped in your traditions.. your chains are spiritual and you too can break free.... but some people like to follow the crowd.billions of them. that broad way is easy and this country makes it easy for you to keep on keeping on worshipping the ancient pagan gods....the next babylon is the last... we are really close to His returning... hope you take heed...

You just keep your version of the Bible in your hip pocket (given to us by Catholic Church Fathers who sorted out what books must be included in Sacred Scripture) , and then disregard the Great Commission given by Christ to Peter and his disciples, trample upon sacred oral traditions handed down through the ages, condemn revelation given us by saints and martyrs, and have the arrogance to think “you” are the sole repository of truth. Theologians of distinction like the writings of St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Pope Benedict XVI called the “theological Einstein” of our times, don’t matter to you. They are just names being thrown out to you (like Shakespeare is to P-Diddy) and since what they analyze appears to be beyond your pay grade you have little interest. Can’t see you for yourself the sheer foolishness of your nonsense!

God’s prophets spoke of people and churches like you and yours steel... again you throw names around.. only ONE name Matters. Yahshua...I would start listening to Him... when you understand (if ever) that your entire life has been worshipping a lie, a counterfeit, a half truth - that Satan has taken the proper worship of God and has given himself the glory-Creator will still be there... Still speaking through His prophets, still warning you.... We now know what His times are - what His calendar is... what His appointments are... Not because we are smart- because we asked, sought and knocked.. and HE IS AND IS A REWARDER OF THOSE WHO DILIGENTLY SEEK HIM... brother you are in for such a fall with your pride in your self and your church, you are blinded to His Truth.. please know that I too was blinded in traditions... You alone will stand and your pope wont be there to defend you.. neither will augustine or anyone else... You are being told in this forum something from His Word no mainstream church teaches....none of them.. It has been piled under rubble for centuries on purpose by the deceiver.... your are blessed to be able to be exposed to this truth.. It isn’t my truth- It is His Truth..and it is located in the book you think came from the catholic church.. That’s God’s word...
Every church, Saturday keeping church and every Sunday keeping church does not worship God on His Sabbath day... and His Sabbath is REALLY important.. only one of His ten commandments that says REMEMBER- well you can’t remember it if you were never taught it- or it was lost deliberately..... God’s word says the Sabbath is a sign/seal... (Satan also has a seal or mark...) Moses and His people didn’t have cell phones or Gregorian calendars to mark His times and Sabbaths... We don’t need those either.... That sun and moon do it every month... be careful if you study this- It will change your life.. You will be forced onto a really narrow path... Hallelujah!

Why don’t you join Rev. Jim (Kool-Aid) Jones and Rev. David Koresh and start your own “Church” based on your looney interpretations of scripture. Actually, Christ commanded Peter and his disciples to “Go forth and Teach all Nations...” Of course this has to be ONE truth, right?

And since you think you have discovered this ONE truth, go forth and do what Koresh and Jones did, and teach all nations YOUR truth.

You just might have some luck in attracting a few followers. Surely, if Rev. Wright and Rev. Sharpton have had some success, to say nothing of T.D. Jake, and Rev. Moon, you should have some success too? No?

Good luck.

Steel you throw out lots of names.. none of those names are important to me... they seem to be very important to you, all the while practicing your pagan rituals....oh how close you are to those names you throw out! you have more in common with Muslims and their love for Mary and Fatima.... good company... pagan god worshipers of a different feather.....

Nice broad path you are on... sorry you are blind to His Truth...

Of course the names are not important to you because it undercuts the nonsense you spew out that seems oddly familiar to these other religious nuts who each claim, like yourself, their own “true” interpretation of scripture. Marian devotion goes back to the early Church fathers and the iconic images in the catacombs. But then again early history to these latter-day fools enters a vacant mind. No matter how strong the evidence of apparitions and miracles might be their inflexible mindset cannot accommodate this. Why? because to acknowledge all of this shatters their stupidity. So they sail along merrily in bliss and ignorance despite the stellar array of theologians, saints, and martyrs of the Church. Yes, the mustard seed Christ spoke of.

You are wasting your sun goddess worship online typing.... I will get you started from your pray the rosary booklet...

Queen of the Holy Rosary, Thou didst deign to come to Fatima to reveal to the three shepherd children the treasures of grace hidden in the Rosary. Inspire my heart with a sincere love of this devotion, in order that by meditation on the Mystery of our Redemption which are recalled in it, I may be enriched by its fruits and obtain peace for the world, the conversion of sinners and of Russia, and the graces which I ask of THEE in this Rosary. I ask for this for the greater glory of God, for THINE own honor, and for the good of souls, especially for my own. Amen..
I offer this Rosary for the purpose of knowing the TRUTH and obtaining contrition and pardon for my sins...

Ugh...

That doesn’t even include the Hail Holy Queen or Hail, Queen of Creation titles ...but you have your gods, I will have my God. And You can have your pedophile priests and I will choose my High Priest... You have your Mediatrix and I will have the world’s Mediator..... everyone gets to choose.. some dogs go back to the vomit and some pigs go back to the mud.... I choose neither...

and now, How Yahshua taught us to pray and who to pray to...

MATHEW 6:5-15
5 “And when you pray,you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets,that they may be seen by men. Assuredly,I say to you,they have their reward. 6 But you,when you pray,go into your room,and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. [a] 7 And when you pray,do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do. For they think that they will be heard for their many words.

8 “Therefore do not be like them. For your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him. 9 In this manner,therefore,pray:

14 “For if you forgive men their trespasses,your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15 But if you do not forgive men their trespasses,neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

You keep revealing your utter idiocy and forget how Peter and his disciples went about preaching. Again you completely remove the context in which Christ was speaking and his audience at the time. Mary was given to all of us as part of the dying Christ: “Son Behold thy Mother”, Mother Behold thy Son.” The most perfect and purest of all of God’s creation, Mary rightly holds the title of Queen of the Angeles. You scripture-only idiots have no clue of the early Church history and the succession of Peter. Go do some serious reading before writing like a Joel Osteen; a Rev. Wright; a Rev. Sharpton; a Rev. Jim (Kool-Aid) Jones; a Rev. Moon; a Rev Jimmy Swaggart; a Rev. Schuller, and all these spawns of the curse of the Reformation.

Thank God I have Him and His Law and not religion like so many, Lost in religiosity or marianology or idolatry or creature and not Creator worship..

Praise Yah I have the Creator and King of the Universe to worship... not wasting it on the creatures...

Psalm 119:97-104
97 O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
98 Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me.
99 I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.
100 I understand more than the ancients,because I keep thy precepts.
101 I have refrained my feet from every evil way,that I might keep thy word.
102 I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me.
103 How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea,sweeter than honey to my mouth!
104 Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.

Those who do not believe in the One True Holy Catholic and Apostolic Faith founded by the Christ (the mustard seed) and given to Peter and his successors (”Go Teach ye all nations”....ONE teaching, not many) need to go out and start their own congregations and churches not unlike what Rev. Wright, Rev. Sharpton; Rev. Swaggart; Rev. Bishop TD Jakes; Rev. Schuller;, Rev. Ben Hinn; Rev. David Koresh; Rev. Joel Osteen; Rev. Jim Jones have done. Why? Because Christ Himself said that when you find something you don’t keep it hidden but proclaim it to the world. We saw what Luther, Calvin, Wesley, and Henry VIII all did.

Those who think they can sit at home read a line or two of Scripture, quote a few Psalms here and there, and say to themselves they have found the truth, is exactly what the Rev. Jim Jones and crowd did. No? Go ask the saints and martyrs of the Catholic Church or try reading up on Aquinas or the works of Benedict XVI who has been called the theological Einstein of our times.

Oh, but wait a minute, we don’t need to read them. We can all sit at home, pick up the Bible, choose what version of it we think is the best, take our own interpretation of Scripture, and why not, go establish are own congregations. We don’t need the guidance of the Church given us by Christ and brought to us the ONE truth handed down by Peter and his successors through the ages and until the end of time with the assurance that the gates of Hell shall not prevail against the Church founded on the rock of Peter? Heck, we can read the psalms for ourselves, we don’t need the Church founded by Christ and taught us through the ages by Peter and his successors. This becomes too difficult. Mass, the Holy Eucharist, the Sacraments, Marian devotion. Aagh, too difficult to comprehend, too hard to follow. I don’t need all that. I can understand it all. I don’t need Peter and his successors to instruct me. And if I am illiterate, or atheist? Oh no worries. I am no better that the guy who sits at home and blurts out a few scriptural lines since no one knows the truth. Viola! Saved!

Pretty sure the Apostles weren’t holding worry beads and thinking their promises are in some woman named Mary....
Who needs the Living God when you have a Mary, to save you?
The Immaculate Heart of Mary, refuge of sinners according to Catholic literature..

Lots of My me and I in these Catholic instructions that ‘mary’ promises the devoted.. give catholics this- the idols worshipped are up front and not apologized for...
15 Promises Our Lady gave for praying the Most Holy Rosary.
1. Whoever shall faithfully serve Me by the recitation ofthe Rosary, shall receive signal graces.
2. I promise My special protection and the greatest graces to all who shall recite the Rosary.
3. The Rosary shall be a powerfül armor against hell, it will destroy vice, decrease sin, and defeat heresies.
4. It will cause virtue and good works to flourish; it will obtain for souls the abundant merey of God; it will withdraw the hearts ofmen from the love of the world and its vanities, and will lift them to the desire of eternal things. Oh, that souls would sanctify themselves by this means.
5. The soul which recommends itself to Me by the recitation of the Rosary, shall not perish.
6. Whoever shall recite the Rosary devoutly, applying himself to the consideration of its sacred mysteries, shall never be conquered by misfortune. God will not chastise him in His justice, he shall not perish by an unprovided death; if he be just he shall remain in the grace of God, and become worthy of eternal life.
7. Whoever shall have a true devotion for the Rosary shall not die without the Sacraments of the Church.
8. Those who are faithful in reciting the Rosary shall have during their life and at their death the light of God and the plenitude of His graces; at the moment of death they shall participate in the merits ofthe saints in paradise.
9. I shall deliver from purgatory, those who have been devoted to the Rosary.
10. The faithful children ofthe Rosary shall merit a high degree of glory in Heaven.
11. You shall obtain all you ask of Me by the recitation of the Rosary.
12. All those who propagate the holy Rosary shall be aided by Me in their necessities.
13. I have obtained from My Divine Son, that all the advocates of the Rosary shall have for intercessors, the entire celestial court during their life and at the hour of death.
14. All who recite the Rosary are My sons, and brothers of My only son Jesus Christ.
15. Devotion to My Rosary is a great sign of predestination.

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