>The Annunciation
Posted on 01/10/2015 2:18:24 PM PST by NYer
Thank you, that helps a bunch. I’ve never heard of the definition you gave for a Priest as I am also not Catholic (wife is). It makes sense from a Catholic point of view.
I guess the difference is that I was raised Baptist so we look to the Pastor as the intellectual leader. He (never was a she before) had the job of learning for himself and teaching others and providing spiritual leadership, meaning he had to espouse the morals of the congregation to others. He ran the church in a physical sense (administration) but also served as the community focal point.
We didn’t have ‘Sacrifice of the Mass’ or anything like it. Protestants are merely observers and learners of Christ and don’t attribute much process or procedures to observances; meaning, failure to perform a certain process or procedure doesn’t render church services any less beneficial to the participant. Things like baptisms and prayer have their observances, but even then not so strictly as some denominations. I’ve seen Baptists perform a baptismal in rivers and some in pools.
All that said, and thank you for your time to post as you did, I believe when it comes to Christ it is acceptance of God and the desire to follows his commandments that are most important. Everything else becomes arguments as to who is and who is not a child of God. We all are, it is just a matter of do we accept and obey.
It reminds me of what Gimli said to Eomer in "Lord of the Rings" about Galadriel. That's what I'm quoting in my tagline.
Catholics worship Mary as has been proven on another thread thus making her a goddess. Sorry catholicism doesn’t like that fact brought into the light.
True.
Thank you for such a gracious answer. Tagline’s for you!
I do so in the name of the entire whole Catholic Church, past, present, and future, and in the name of Christ our True God.
There. If she's a "goddess" --- which she ain't --- may she strike me dead-dead-dead with all schoolmarmistic sternness and pruniprismic promptness.
Woo woo.
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Still here. No surprise.
Even engaging this is just so stupid.
Does it matter? Would you be less concerned if DiNardo had allowed a female Methodist “bishop” to baptize monkeys in his Co-Cathedral?
>The Annunciation
DiNardo will have to face the Great Judge on that one.
Careful what you mock.....
Fr. Vernon Meyer also got himself excommunicated in Phoenix a few years ago for trying this “women priest” scam.
Prudent advice for you also.
Geez Louise. Worse off than I thought.
No....I am most certainly not afraid of Mary. Catholics, however, best hope they don’t get on her bad side.
Without looking at my “Father Smith Instructs Jackson” (c. 1959), I can’t recall if Fr Smith quotes Kempis concerning celibacy, but it bore on his, “Imitation of Christ” nonetheless.
Not Catholic, but as my mom went to “conversion” study in order to sing in a Catholic choir where we lived, I went along too, at 12.
‘Learned a lot. Very interesting still.
God knows us all. May He Bless You and Yours.
Doesn’t say pastor or priest, just an individual who feels this to be an appropriate choice. Now Titus chapter 1 and I Timothy chapter 3 give clear guidelines.
Look at the Apostle Paul who was called to throw a very time consuming monkey wrench in the Roman legal system. He was called to celibacy, and a good thing too!
“Doesn’t say pastor or priest...”
AND YOU DID? Quote: “The Pope says that celibacy is based on tradition only, and certainly it isn’t scriptural.”
Again, Matthew 19:12.
You made a claim.
It was false.
Deal with it.
You are reading a pile of stuff in there, that isn’t in there. You are mistaken my friend, even your own Pope say so.
No I didn’t, that’s kind of the point. The conversation you broke in on was concerning whether or not priests could marry.
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