Posted on 03/24/2014 10:59:55 AM PDT by JSDude1
Just curious, but I (as a non-Catholic Christian) just want to ask any Catholic friends on here, if you at times personally (or even in a Mass/Church setting) ever use ANY Protestant made media that glorify Jesus (and by extension his apostles and the Old Testament saints)?
Do you ever listen to "Christian" music that was created by evangelical Christians, and played on such radio networks suck as K-LOVE, or ever read/watch any sermons by evangelists/pastors such as Bill Graham (and family), John Piper, etc..
Do you ever use Protestant produced Bible-studies?
I know that for myself, I HAVE Obviously watched such classic Christian movies such as Jesus of Nazareth, and The Passion (which were obviously Catholic produced films), and have caught your ETWN network from time to time (though I don't agree with the theology sometimes).
Just curious..
J.S.
sure singing a protestant song always happens right before you renounce your faith.
wow talk about a leap of logic..
we sing the Battle Hymn of the Republic on the 4th of July does that make one a Yankee??
LOL!!!
this was one of the major things Martin Luther did, contrary to the wishes of the Catholic church...i.e., he translated the Bible into a commonly spoken language (German) for the first time.
There were many German Bible translations available prior to Luther's. Also many other vernacular translations were done at the express request of the Church.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_translations_into_German
God Bless them. Romans 1:16!
Met a retired Army Pentecostal chaplain while spending some time in the Fisher house in Fort Sam. Big burly Harley rider with arms full of tats. He showed me how he witnesses the Gospel by his tattoos. All Bible verses and images.
You are correct in your discussion about the comparison between the faiths. I have heard numerous times the pastor from the non-denominational Christian church I used to attend make remarks about a lot of the members being “recovering Catholics”, etc. I heard comments and comparisons in the Baptist church I attended when I was younger also.
I’m a Catholic convert and work for a Jesuit Retreat Center and have yet to hear that from a priest.
Great thread thanks for it.
“And as far as Latin goes...this was one of the major things Martin Luther did, contrary to the wishes of the Catholic church...i.e., he translated the Bible into a commonly spoken language (German) for the first time.”
the protestant ‘big lie’...
what you don’t know is the vaunted Gutenberg was a (gasp) Catholic and...
there were at least eight printed Incanabula (Bibles printed prior to 1501 and the Reformation).... printed in German
and the money quote for all you protestants: “As in all pre-Lutheran German Bibles, the translation was made from the (gasp) Latin Vulgate; i.e. they were Catholic bibles.
Now don’t believe me this is from protestant Oxford University’s bible project found here:
http://bav.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/stamp-ross-283
Stamp. Ross. 283
This large-format Bible, glossed with the margin notes of Niccolò da Lira, was printed in 1478-1479 in Cologne by Heinrich Quentell and Bartholomaeus of Unkel on behalf of Johann Helmann and Arnold Salmonster in Cologne and Anton Koberger in Nuremberg. Known as the ‘Cologne Bible,’ it was printed in two varieties of German: Low Saxon (niedersächsisch) and Low Rhenish (niederrheinische). As in all pre-Lutheran German Bibles, the translation was made from the Latin Vulgate.
For the Greater Glory of God
Easy there...my apologies if I offended, but the comment was made in jest. Trying to show my Protestant brother that we Catholics have a sense of humor.
The funniest part was double parking and the tube of toothpaste. Never saw those accusations but my dad was a pro at the double park growing up in New York.
A lot of the Catholic hymns are very old traditional hymns that are sung in the Protestant churches such as “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God”.
Is it an issue of the flowers ON the altar? I ask because as a young teen I used to deliver flowers to many Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches and the flowers were to be placed on the floor and not ON the altar. Same thing in the Catholic church I regularly attended every week with my family. In the summers I would attend mass on Wednesdays some with my mother and during the week there were no floral arrangements at all.
i will say one of the most misunderstood relationship others have of the catholics... we do pray to mary and the other saints to intercede on our behalf with God...
we don’t worship Mary, but appreciate her working for our benefit with her Son.
who doesn’t listen to their mother.
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I think that is the issue. It being Lent might have also been a problem.
I’ll respond with the opposite. I do keep Catholic and Eastern Orthodox English versions of the Bible handy to compare Bible passages when studying. I use the Orthodox Study Bible (OSB) handy for OT passages given it was translated from the LXX and not the Hebrew. I was raised in a strict Irish Catholic family and attended Catholic school through college so still have those resources available.
got it..
first Friday in lent was a birthday party of my sons fiend and the protestant mom served pepperoni pizza - half the parents there were Catholic.
We ll around agreed that the pepperoni pizza looked especially good.
we tried to not let the lost see the little piles of pepperoni under our napkins.
Lurking
lost = host
Ah that Ramadan “fasting” deal is not really fasting. Sure they don’t eat and drink little water from sunrise to sunset but feast to all hours of the night after sundown.
Agreed. Regardless of denomination, we are all on this journey together. I’ve learned a lot along my way from Catholics and non-Catholics alike.
I think which Mas is being said has a lot to do with it.
When I served Daily Mass in the old days, it was called the Mass of the Dead was pretty solemn and definitely no flowers(except for funeral masses - then flowers all over everything except the altar)
Feast days and Most Sundays flowers everywhere.
But that was along time ago.
There are three things that go when you get old, but I forget what they are.
AMDG
“Now I have to say, we always operated as if Protestants didn’t exist. Not once in the 18 years I was in weekly attendance at mass did I ever hear a word about protestants, or any kind of comparison, us vs them, etc.”
Very true. Protestantism isn’t discussed at Mass. I remember one time the priest mentioned that some Protestants believe in consubstantiation rather than transubstantiation, but that was the extent of the comment. The only other religion that gets mentioned is Judaism vis. a vis. how the Old Testament relates to the New. And I’ve never heard anything negative about Judaism or the Jews in church.
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